Finance - Matches

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that make it possible for microfinance..

Few studies on microfinance have delved on its development from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. This Policy Notes focu..

This Policy Notes looks at the issue of gender concerns in credit cooperatives from a different perspective. Specifically, it looks at the implication..

To be of continuous and reliable service to poor families with small businesses, microfinance institutions (MFIs) must operate in a sustainable ma..

In order to promote microfinance or the provision of a broad range of financial services to poor and low-income households for their microenterprises ..

The paper provides an assessment of the Community Mortgage Program as a government-housing program for households belonging to the lowest income decil..

This book is a critical study on housing subsidies, one of the principal instruments the government uses to provide the lower income segment of the po..

This paper has reviewed existing policies and programs to encourage banks to expand their financial services to micro, small- and medium-sized ent..

This study evaluates the absorptive capacity of a government agency for domestic and external funds. It takes the case of the Department of Public Wor..

This Notes outlines the sad experience of the supply-led credit policy and subsidized direct credit programs (DCPs) in the Philippines. Said failure h..

Microfinance banks have, through the years, shown a remarkable ability to reach low-income borrowers, most of whom do not have bankable assets to serv..

This paper has re-examined the role of Land Bank of the Philippines, a government-owned bank, in light of the recent reforms and developments in the P..

The paper discusses current government attempts to shift to market-based housing finance in the context of the past performance of the government's ho..

A liberalized and deregulated financial market environment as well as good governance are better ingredients than government-subsidized and directed c..