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Microfinance and the decline of poverty : evidence from the nineteenth-century Netherlands

Deneweth, Heidi; Gelderblom, Oscar; Jonker, Joost - In: Journal of economic development 39 (2014) 1, pp. 79-110

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Famine, Finance, and Adjustment to Environmental Shock : Microcredit and the Great Famine in Ireland

Goodspeed, Tyler - 2014

less infected districts. Using annual reports of the Irish Loan Funds, I further find that access to microfinance credit … strongly correlated with non-demographic adjustment to blight. Districts with at least one active microfinance fund during the …

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Ireland's peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836-1845

McLaughlin, Eoin; Pecchenino, Rowena - 2019

In the decade before the famine, Ireland experienced a boom in Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This paper analyses … the poor law in 1838. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a complex tax avoidance/reduction scheme that could …

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Financial inclusion with hybrid organisational forms : microfinance, philanthropy, and the poor law in Ireland, c. 1836-1845

McLaughlin, Eoin; Pecchenino, Rowena A. - 2020

the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organisational … understand Irish microfinance in the early nineteenth century, a period of profound socio-economic and socio-religious change. It … seeks to explain the factors that motivated the establishment and de-establishment of microfinance institutions amidst this …

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Helping the poor help themselves : social enterprise and Ireland's peculiar microfinance revolution, c. 1836-1845

McLaughlin, Eoin; Pecchenino, Rowena A. - 2024 - Draft: August 2024

In the decade before the Great Famine, Ireland experienced a boom in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Taking a social … turbulent period in Irish history. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a legal means that could lessen the burden on … between MFIs, an Irish solution, and the poor law, a British solution, to Ireland's chronic poverty. The goal of the Irish …

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Financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Sarpong, Bernard; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 46 countries for the period 2004–2018. The evidence suggests that usage of financial services, among other covariates, has a quantifiable and...

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Rural transformation, inequality, and the origins of microfinance

Süße, Marvin; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019

factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for …

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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives

Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017 - This version: January 2017

We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing … to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at …

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The Life Cycle of a Microfinance Institution : An Economic Analysis of the Irish Loan Funds

Hollis, Aidan; Sweetman, Arthur - 2002

Ireland's loan funds were a long-lived, self-sustaining, large-scale microfinance organization that made millions of … banking system and seen as effective in relieving poverty. In their second century they became ossified, in part because of … competition with commercial banks. The loan funds provide an example of sustainable microfinance under harsh economic conditions …

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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance

Süße, Marvin - 2019

factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857765