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Household access to microcredit and child work in rural Malawi

Hazarika, Gautam; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2005

This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might...

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Who are the microenterprise owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...

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Household access to microcredit and children's food security in rural Malawi: a gender perspective

Hazarika, Gautam; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb - 2008

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit, plays a role in children's food security,...

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Demand side analysis of microlending markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - 2009

In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...

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Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Angelucci, Manuela; Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - 2013

Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high interest rates. We use a clustered randomized trial, and household surveys of eligible borrowers and their businesses, to estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at...

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Empowering the Vulnerable to Be Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Test on the Effectiveness of the Ghana Microfinance Policy 2006

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2016

The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We … entrepreneurs in the rationing behavior of the microfinance companies. This is what we should expect if the policy is effective. Our … results show that even after controlling for a large number of borrower characteristics, microfinance type and credit …

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Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2015

microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance … institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from fourteen microfinance institutions … rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance institutions. …

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What Makes Small Firms Grow? : Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004

Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...

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Economic governance of MFIs: Inside the black box

Arun, Thankom; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2010

This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions … atmosphere that will enhance the achievement of microfinance social objectives. …

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Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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