University Meets Microfinance – serie
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Microfinance 2.0 - Group Formation & Repayment Performance in Online Lending Platforms During the U.S. Credit Crunch
Av Thilo Klein
Häftad, 2010
385 kr
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Microfinance 2.0 examines the role of reputation-based intermediaries on the world’s largest peer-to-peer online lending platform. This marketplace as well as other recently opened lending websites allow people to auction microcredit over the Internet and are in line with the disintermediation in …
Mission Drift in Microfinance
The Influence of Institutional and Country Risk Indicators on the Trade-Off between the Financial and Social Performance of Microfinance Institutions
Av Pim Engels
Häftad, 2010
384 kr
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Investments in microfinance by institutional investors are growing. The investors benefit from a dual return investment opportunity by balancing financial and social returns. Yet, commercial microfinance institutions tend to focus on their financial performance. Reaching out to wealthier clients …
Impact of the Current Economic and Financial Crisis on Microfinance
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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The recent global macroeconomic crisis creates an exceptionally interesting possibility to investigate the linkages of the microfinance sector to mainstream markets and its connections with domestic markets as well as international markets – a subject whose significance has increased in recent …
Microfinance and Vulnerability to Poverty
The Evidence from Rural Households in Cambodia
Häftad, 2011
386 kr
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Low income households are faced with various types of risks, increasing their vulnerability to poverty. In Cambodia, conditions of the rural poor - with the majority engaged in agriculture - are characterized by low productivity, limited capacities in terms of land and assets, volatile income …
Why Do India’s Urban Poor Choose to Go Private?
Health Policy Simulations in Slums of Hyderabad
Av Thilo Klein
Häftad, 2012
397 kr
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Why does a large proportion of India’s urban poor choose to pay for private health services when public services are essentially free of charge? Drawing from previous research, this study takes the underprovision of the medication component in public health packages as a starting point. Field …
Microfinance Investment Funds: An analysis of profitability
Häftad, 2011
373 kr
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In the traditional financial system, profit and social solidarity have often represented a dichotomy hard to beat. In this scenario, the Microfinance Investment Vehicles (MIVs) are emerging as tools to build a bridge between private and social interests, increasingly in recent years, despite the …
Sustainable Microfinance
Redefining the Socio-Economic Mission in Microfinance
Av Funmilayo A Akinosi, Daniel Nordlund m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
231 kr
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As stated by the Brundtland Report, the authoritative document on sustainable development, the pressure of poverty creates environmental stress by factors like overcrowded cities, deforestation, and overuse of marginal land. Alejandro Turbay, Funmilayo Akinosi, and Daniel Nordlund sought to find …
Furthering Financial Literacy
Experimental Evidence from a Financial Literacy Training Programme for Microfinance Clients in Bhopal, India
Av Anna Custers
Häftad, 2012
385 kr
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Anna Custers' study presents evidence from a randomised field experiment that was conducted in Bhopal, India. It delivers a two-fold contribution to the burgeoning field of financial literacy theory. Firstly, it investigates a specific link in the theoretical mechanism between financial literacy …
Transforming Microfinance Institutions
A possible way to go for Moroccan Microcredit Associations
Av Nicole Tode
Häftad, 2013
374 kr
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Nicole Tode evaluates the possible institutional development of Moroccan microcredit associations which intend to transform themselves from the status of non-governmental institutions (NGOs) into regulated microfinance banks. Such a transformation might increase their asset base, number of clients, …
Agricultural Finance for Smallholder Farmers
Rethinking Traditional Microfinance Risk and Cost Management Approaches
Häftad, 2015
234 kr
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Even though traditional microfinance has successfully paved the way for offering financial services to low-income populations without traditional collateral, many microfinance institutions (MFIs) are still reluctant to move into rural areas and agricultural finance, due to the perceived high risks …
