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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Informal credit"”.
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Essays on Loan Markets in Less-Developed Economies
… on loans extended to SMEs are examined. The informal credit mostly serves credit-constrained borrowers (mostly SMEs, poor households, informal businesses, borrowers in rural areas that are located far from formal creditors, and people who are not able to meet collateral requirements of formal …
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Impacts of Household Credit on the Poor in Peri-urban Areas of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Access to credit is universally believed to be an effective tool to help the poor out of poverty. Yet the evidence for this has not considered all settings, especially the peri-urban areas of rapidly industrialising Asian countries. In these areas human capital is the main asset of the poor, so it …
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Capitalisation and proletarianization on a Western Cape farm: Klaver Valley 1812-1898
… 1850s and it did so as a result of the system of informal credit which existed at farm level among farmers, allowing for re-investment and survival of cash flow. Chapter Four studies the process of proletarianisation which accompanied the capitalist development of the farm and its farmers. While …
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The abundances and distribution of some trace elements in some selected South African shales
… 1850s and it did so as a result of the system of informal credit which existed at farm level among farmers, allowing for re-investment and survival of cash flow. Chapter Four studies the process of proletarianisation which accompanied the capitalist development of the farm and its farmers. While …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of the Microcredit and Integrated Asset Building as a Social Approach to Poverty Reduction in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
… population. This study looks the role of microcredits, which has received increasing attention as a means to combat poverty. The advent of neoliberalism led to advances in autonomous markets, commodification, market-led growth, and the dissolution of the Keynesian welfare state. Microcredit …
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A Feasibility Study on Using the Blockchain to Build a Credit Register for Individuals Who Do Not Have Access to Traditional Credit Scores
In South Africa and many other countries, credit registers and credit scores are used to determine how much credit a person can get access to, as well as the interest rate which they will be charged. In addition to this, some companies (such as insurance companies and rental agencies), use this …
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Essays on the role of risk and disaster in agricultural development
… countries focusing on technology adoption, credit accessibility, and trade opportunities. In the first study, we investigate how two tools that signal the quality of a product affect willingness-to-pay (WTP) elicitation for a familiar good. Using a novel study design that combines an …
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Essays in macro and development economics
… goods from each other in the presence of credit constraints. These credit constraints distort input choices, thereby reducing equilibrium demand for upstream goods and creating a wedge between the potential sales ("influence") and actual sales by upstream sectors. I analyze policy …
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Impact of migration costs, microcredit, and remittances on cross-border labour migration decisions: Evidence from a Cambodian household survey
… Chapter 3 in this thesis, investigates the microcredit-migration linkage through the lens of South–South Migration (SSM). Evidence from the literature evaluating the linkage between microcredit and migration is ambiguous. This chapter analyses the effect of microcredit on labour migration …
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Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century
… England, particularly within the informal credit market. In the past few decades, substantial scholarship has demonstrated women’s regular involvement in active income generation. At all levels of the economy – from servants to investors – and stages of working life – from training …