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How will China's saving-investment balance evolve ?
Kuijs, Louis - 2006
"This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead …. Household saving in China is relatively high compared with OECD countries. However, much of China's high economywide saving, and … the difference between China and other countries, are due to unusually high enterprise and government saving. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522104
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Investment and saving in China
Kuijs, Louis - 2005
"The author analyzes sectoral patterns of investment and saving in China-over time and compared with other countries … several policy debates. Key findings include: (1) investment by enterprises distinguishes China from other countries and … saving between China and other countries-the majority is explained by high saving of the government and enterprises (through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522567
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Access to capital in rural Thailand : An estimated model of formal versus informal credit
Gine, Xavier - 2005
"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending institutions such as government or commercial banks, and more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522697
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Use of the formal and informal financial sectors : Does gender matter? Empirical evidence from rural Bangladesh
McKernan, Signe-Mary - 2005
"Access to transfers and credit, whether cash or in-kind, is a major source of poverty alleviation and income generation in many developing countries around the world. Women may especially benefit from transfers and credit in countries such as Bangladesh, where they often have few work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522708
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Providing Financial Services in Rural Areas : A Fresh Look at Financial Cooperatives
World Bank - 2012
This report demonstrates that financial cooperatives can be sustainable providers of financial services in rural areas and development assistance needs to consider supporting them as a means to enhance access to rural finance. It does not suggest that financial cooperatives are the only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553110
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Mexico - Rural Finance : Savings Mobilization Potential and Deposit Instruments in Marginal Areas
World Bank - 2013
The specific objectives of this study are to document, and analyze the extent, and modalities of savings practiced by rural households, and enterprises, identifying the factors that limit, and help explain rural savings in financial form, on the demand, and supply sides, as well as setting forth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558619
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Reform of China's Rural Credit Unions : Policy Note
World Bank - 2013
resolved if China is to create a 'modern rural financial system'. The key issues facing policy-makers are: Consolidating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557816
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Toward an understanding of household vulnerability in rural Kenya
Subbarao, K. - 2004
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Evaluating the impact of infrastructure rehabilitation projects on household welfare in rural Georgia
Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523282
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Household savings and residential mobility in informal settlements
Lall, Somik V. - 2005
"Strategies to help the one billion people worldwide who live in informal settlements have mainly focused on slum upgrading, sites and services programs, and tenure security. In contrast, there has been less attention on what enables slum dwellers to transition into the formal housing sector,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522604