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High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh
Duvendack, Maren; Palmer-Jones, Richard - 2011
Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity of iconic studies which … have justified the microfinance phenomenon. This paper applies propensity score matching (PSM), which has become widely … rigorous evidence supporting claims that microfinance benefits the poorest especially when targeted on women. After carefully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015225103
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Adoption and economic impact of water conservation and intensification methods on input demand, output supply, and net returns in lowland rice production of northern Ghana
Andrea Liane Linda Faltermeier - 2009
Rice is an important cereal to Ghana’s economy and agriculture. While there is huge potential for lowland rice cultivation in northern Ghana, erratic rainfall and low and degrading soil fertility remain the key constraints of production. The present study analyzes the adoption decision and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428974
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Spatial design matrices and associated quadratic forms: structure and properties
Hillier, Grant; Martellosio, Federico - 2006
The paper provides significant simplifications and extensions of results obtained by Gorsich, Genton, and Strang (J. Multivariate Anal. 80 (2002) 138) on the structure of spatial design matrices. These are the matrices implicitly defined by quadratic forms that arise naturally in modelling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015217198
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Property Rights and Income Inequality
Van, Germinal - 2021
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact that property rights exert on income inequality. It has been widely argued that income inequality is one of the catalysts of poverty and economic disparities between the haves and the have-nots. Moreover, advocates in favor of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230457
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An Economic Analysis on The Social Cost of Illegal Immigration
Van, Germinal; Orellana, Jose - 2021
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the economic cost of illegal immigration in the United States since the 1990s and its consequences on American society. Indeed, illegal immigration has been a major topic of discussion among the main social issues during election cycles in the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015253552
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Microfinance and Moneylender Interest Rate: Evidence from Bangladesh
Mallick, Debdulal - 2009
. This paper addresses one important aspect of the linkage by empirically investigating the impact of the microfinance … program expansion on the moneylender interest rates in Bangladesh, and finds that moneylender interest rates increase with … microfinance program expansion. MFI program expansion increases moneylender interest rates in the villages in which more loans are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015218568
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Missing links, missing markets: Internal exchanges, reciprocity and external connections in the economic networks of Gambian villages
Jaimovich, Dany - 2013
A unique dataset of social and economic networks collected in 60 rural Gambian villages is used to study the ways in which households with links outside the village (that are considered as a proxy for market connections) behave in the locally available exchange networks for land, labor, input...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015235520
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Food Consumption Patterns and Nutrition Disparity in Pakistan
Haider, Adnan; Zaidi, Masroor - 2017
The study examines the changes in household consumption patterns in Pakistan based on eleven composite food groups. The analysis is based on micro level survey dataset, Household Income Expenditure Survey (HIES) with seven consecutive rounds spanning over the period 2000-01 till 2013-14. Along...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015258731
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Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
Berg, Claudia; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - 2013
Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015238313
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Microfinance and Moneylenders: Long-run Effects of MFIs on Informal Credit Market in Bangladesh
Berg, Claudia; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - 2013
Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015238579