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interview market participants and triangulate the perspectives of borrowers with those of formal and informal lenders …. Importantly, our research includes current and past borrowing from formal and informal sources, prompting participants to draw … unintended consequence of formal microfinance: The availability of formal low-interest microfinance creates informal …
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The continuous regressions in the per capita income of the Sudanese people have triggered many suggestions to … of financing in Sudan as part of programs initiated to improve income per capita. Islamic and regular financing systems … from final productive outputs. The expected Zero Interest Rates expected from such small production/income improvement …
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of poverty, the probit model emphasizes that women are more favored in access to microcredit (ii) second, in terms of …
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, Peru. In this first institutional analysis in ACCION's Poverty Outreach project, the authors analyze client income data to …
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the three different forms of institutional transformation in microfinance - the upscaling-, the downscaling- and the greenfield-approach - and to assess in how far they contribute to a ‘mission drift' in microfinance, away from providing affordable...
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, however, not driven by higher income, as microcredit does not improve the ability to migrate for work, nor does it reduce …
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The present study tried to empirically ascertain the relationship between financial orientation of microfinance institutions and their poverty outreach in Indian context. An unbalanced panel of 55 microfinance institutions covering the period 2005-2009 is taken. We relied mainly on the Hausman...
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This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its...
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