Micro - Matches

Illness or injury, death of a family member, man-made calamities and natural disasters have a devastating effect on those poor households’ cash flow..

Microinsurance--insurance services for low-income households--has emerged as a phenomenon in recent years. This Policy Notes draws attention to the ne..

Free trade agreements (FTAs) are seen to boost a nation's competitiveness in the global trade arena. Asia, albeit a "late bloomer" in initiating FTAs ..

Low-income households find it hard to cope with the risks brought about by an illness or injury, death of a family member, man-made calamities, and na..

This study assesses the state of microinsurance in the country, identifies the players and their performance, and the challenges facing microinsurance..

The paper reviews the innovations developed by some financial institutions to meet the challenges of microfinance and rural finance markets. Innovatio..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that enable microfinance institutions ..

Citing impressive gains in the last three years, the author points out the bright prospects for microfinance as a major source of financing for small ..

This paper examines the borrowing behavior of the households and the suitability of the loans obtained from the community oriented financial intermedi..

This paper examines the extent of asset accumulation and saving of the households from the credit they obtained from community-oriented financial inte..

This paper extends the analysis on microfinance and poverty from the household perspective by focusing on the role of other economically active househ..

The paper employs an integrated CGE-microsimulation approach to analyze the possible effects of the Philippine-Japan bilateral agreements on unemploym..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. It employs poverty dec..