Finance - Matches

This Note discusses two major constraints to agricultural finance that hinder private investments in food production. The policy gaps that need govern..

The enactment of two pro-poor housing legislations in the 1990s--the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) of 1992 and the Comprehensive Shelter Fi..

This paper reports on the impact evaluation study of the Rural Microenterprise Finance Project (RMFP) in the Philippines. RMFP aimed to support effort..

When poor households face catastrophic events, they do not have any means for risk protection. Access to formal risk protection schemes such as insura..

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

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

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

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

This book, which is co-published with the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC), provides a review of carefully selected literature and descriptio..

In recent years, a number of lending instruments have been introduced and tried out in the area of housing finance. In the Philippines, a group lendin..

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

How to frame efficient rural finance policies that would become potent tools for development remains as a challenge to policymakers. Over the past two..

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

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

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 ..