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The purpose of the study is to examine the social accountability and argue comparison of outreach level of microfinance …
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Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are a backbone of the Philippine economy. One factor that hinders the growth of these enterprises is their difficulty in accessing finance from banks and other financial institutions. The Credit Surety Fund (CSF) was established to help these...
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In this paper, we aim to assess how a specific socio-institutional environment, identified according to the level of corruption, may affect the access to credit for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Using a sample of 68,115 observations - drawn from the ECB-SAFE survey -...
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. The application of microcredit to other poverty groups who actually need subsidies and social safety nets would be a … social equity-laden microcredit strategy for the impoverished agrarian reform beneficiaries in Western Mindanao. It … for poverty reduction and rural development. The data and information were generated from combined descriptive and field …
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In recent years, an important number of impact studies have attempted to examine the effect of credit on income poverty … is inappropriate in the urban context where a large percentage of microfinance organisations in the developing world … in order to measure the sensitivity of the poverty impact to the intra-household distribution of welfare. We find a link …
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those in poverty outside the household. We test whether, by lending to the vulnerable non-poor, microcredit programmes can …-allocation of labour resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status. However, credit … accessibility could also have wider impacts on poverty if it leads to new hires outside the household. This paper contributes to the …
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, and usage of products/services provided by microfinance institutions reduces poverty. The study recommends among others … the need for increased access to microfinance products/services and an integrated poverty reduction policies that …This study investigates the role of microfinance institutions as a vehicle for driving financial inclusion and …
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We ask whether machine learning algorithms improve the efficiency of screening of the loan officers, and thereby help expand access to formal credit. We obtain loan application level data from an Indian bank. To overcome the selective labels problem, we exploit the incentive driven within...
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This study evaluates the impact of Microenterprise Development (MD) assistance on the labor supply, income, expenditure, savings, and capital investment of beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilya, the Philippine government's conditional cash transfers (CCT) program. The assistance is provided by the...
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