Microfinance and poverty reduction - evidence from Latin America

Gulli, Hege; Berger, Marguerite

doi:10.3362/0957-1329.1999.027

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“…Agencies, and particularly aid donors, have all sought to ensure that funds are well spent (Eversole, 2003;Hulme, 2000), and thereby prove that microcredit activities reduce poverty (Gulli and Berger, 1999).…”

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Loan officers and loan ‘delinquency’ in Microfinance: A Zambian case

Dixon¹,

Ritchie²,

Siwale³

2007

Accounting Forum

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(2007) 'Loan ocers and loan 'delinquency' in micronance : a Zambian case.', Accounting forum., 31 (1). pp. 47-71. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor. 2006.11.005 Publisher's copyright statement:Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. ABSTRACTThe paper seeks to correct the neglected importance of loan officers in microfinance by explaining their roles, dilemmas and tensions when actually working with clients. Few existing studies have used data outside Bangladesh and many focus upon well-performing institutions. This study draws its data from Zambia and focuses on the recent repayment crisis of CETZAM and the effects of strategies for dealing with defaulters. Our findings firstly show that loan officers faced powerful hierarchical accountability pressures and under intense pressure, used inappropriate methods to compel repayments. Second, because of their problematic relationships with clients, loan officers experienced job-related tensions through performing conflicting roles that called for a particular management of emotions. Third, the approach to borrower default is shown to be so detrimental for CETZAM"s short and longterm survival that it could call other developments into question.

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Loan officers and loan ‘delinquency’ in Microfinance: A Zambian case

Dixon¹,

Ritchie²,

Siwale³

2007

Accounting Forum

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“…Identified as a "hysteria," or a "revolution" of development (Gulli and Berger 1999), the unprecedented growth of micro-enterprise development is noted most in popular business magazines and specialty development journals.…”

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Theorizing the Rise of Microenterprise Development in Carribean Context

Karides

2010

JWSR

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“…Gulli and Berger (1999), however, find that poor infrastructure, unfavourable geographic conditions and low population density hinder the outreach of MFIs in remote and rural areas.…”

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The Importance of Geographic Access for the Impact of Microfinance

2016

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Importance of Geographic Access for the Impact of Microfinance Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractThe geographic distance between a household and financial institutions may constitute a significant obstacle to achieving the benefits of modern financial institutions. We measure the impact of improved distance-related access to microcredits in Uzbekistan. Residents living closer to microfinance institutions are propensity score matched to those further away using both household and village characteristics. Households located closer to microfinance institutions have larger businesses in terms of income, profits and employees than similar households located further away. Similarly, they spend more on most forms of consumption and have greater savings.JEL-Code: O160, C340.

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Microfinance and poverty reduction - evidence from Latin America

Cited by 45 publications

References 1 publication

Loan officers and loan ‘delinquency’ in Microfinance: A Zambian case

Loan officers and loan ‘delinquency’ in Microfinance: A Zambian case

Theorizing the Rise of Microenterprise Development in Carribean Context

The Importance of Geographic Access for the Impact of Microfinance

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