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This study investigates the legitimacy of the relatively high interest rates charged by those microfinance institutions (MFIs) which have been transformed into regulated commercial banks using information garnered from a panel of 1232 MFIs from 107 developing countries. Results show that...
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This study compares the responsiveness of microcredit interest rates to age, scale of lending and organisational … banking status. Third, age of operation in excess of eight years exerts a negative impact on interest rates, regardless of … loan sizes are key strategic pricing decisions, irrespective of the institution's age. This study is original in its …
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This study compares the responsiveness of microcredit interest rates to age, scale of lending and organisational … banking status. Third, age of operation in excess of eight years exerts a negative impact on interest rates, regardless of … loan sizes are key strategic pricing decisions, irrespective of the institution's age. This study is original in its …
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This study compares the responsiveness of microcredit interest rates to age, scale of lending and organisational … legal banking status. Third, age of operation in excess of eight years exerts a negative impact on interest rates …, initiatives to increase loan sizes are key strategic pricing decisions, irrespective of the institution's age. This study is …
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In this paper, we develop a new index labelled the African Women Vulnerability index (AWVI) with a focus on rural women using the Round 7 Afrobarometer Survey. The AWVI comprises 59 indicators in six dimensions namely: safety, empowerment, health, education, economic prosperity and...
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The present study examines the relevance of globalization in lifelong gender inclusive education for structural … moments (GMM) is employed to assess the problem statement within the remit of interactive regressions. Gender inclusive … lifelong learning is measured as gender inclusive education acquired during the three levels of education, notably: primary …
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This study complements the extant literature by assessing economic sector and globalization channels for gender … gender employment in the industry and the negative effect is driven by the financial globalization sub-component of economic …-components positively affect gender employment in the service sector and the corresponding positive effect is driven by the trade …
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