Personal characteristics and capacities are important for whether microcredit clients succeed in business. In particular, a client’s education influences ...

Providing credits seems to be an effective tool for improving the welfare of the poor. It is expected that microcredit funding to poor people will expand ...

This study forms part of the output of a consultancy on Social Development Funds in Zimbabwe and Malawi commissioned from Chr. Michelsen Institute by ...

The effect of within-group heterogeneity on the survival of social groups is theoretically ambiguous. A greater diversity of ideas, experience, and networks ...

The effect of within-group heterogeneity on the survival of social groups is theoretically ambiguous. A greater diversity of ideas, experience, and networks ...

A number of studies document an in-group bias in social dilemma situations. While group structure and dynamics are important in shaping in-group favouritism, ...

In 2007, two years after he took power, the President of Mozambique Armando Guebuza launched one of his Presidency’s principal initiatives: The ...

Microcredit clients are often assigned to credit groups with joint liability for loans. But what makes a credit group work well? What credit groups are ...

Preparation of a paper on "Microcredit programs: Methods for solving dilemmas of credit expansion" for presentation at a meeting in Manila of the Working ...

The effect of within-group heterogeneity on the survival of social groups is theoretically ambiguous. A greater diversity of ideas, experience, and networks ...

While a number of studies documents macro level effects of natural resources, much less is known about how resources such as oil affect development prospects ...

In 2010, CMI in cooperation with Development Workshop conducted a survey among 540 clients in two Luanda branches of the Kixicredito micro-credit institution. ...

The general question underlying this project is the following: Under which conditions does microfinance actually assist the poor to move out of poverty ...

There is increased awareness that success among small scale entrepreneurs in developing countries requires more than microfinance, and that an important ...

Developing countries could raise substantial domestic revenues by strengthening tax legislation and administration, but a lack of global regulations to address cross-border tax evasion is slowing down the process.

This workshop aims to define a research agenda for improved knowledge of the effectiveness of strategies for improved health worker performance in low income countries.

Micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries face a number of constraints on business growth. Lack of access to capital has received a lot of attention ...

There is little doubt that private sector development is important for development, and that enabling the poor to become and succeed as entrepreneurs ...

Aid has been successful when it is no longer needed, but we all too often see how aid breeds dependency, and how both donors and recipients have difficulties ...

Ten years after the end of its civil war, Angola, which is heading to the polls Friday, has been transformed into a regional African power with a strong ...