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The challenging dynamics of microcredit in AngolaThe challenging dynamics of microcredit in Angola

CMI Brief | Sep 2015
Personal characteristics and capacities are important for whether microcredit clients succeed in business. In particular, a client’s education influences ...
Microcredit, Education, Business, Angola

Microcredit programmes: Methodes for solving dilemmas of credit expansion

CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997
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 ...
Microcredit, Bangladesh

Social action and microcredit funds in the Malawi: A pilot study

CMI Report | Jan 1997
This study forms part of the output of a consultancy on Social Development Funds in Zimbabwe and Malawi commissioned from Chr. Michelsen Institute by ...
Poverty alleviation, Microcredit, Social aspects, Evaluation, Malawi, Africa: Malawi

Within-group heterogeneity and group dynamics: Analyzing exit of microcredit groups in AngolaWithin-group heterogeneity and group dynamics: Analyzing exit of microcredit groups in Angola

CMI Working Paper | Mar 2015
The effect of within-group heterogeneity on the survival of social groups is theoretically ambiguous. A greater diversity of ideas, experience, and networks ...
Group dynamics, microcredit, fractionalization, inequality, exit, Angola

Within-group heterogeneity and group dynamics: Analyzing exit of microcredit groups in AngolaWithin-group heterogeneity and group dynamics: Analyzing exit of microcredit groups in Angola

Report in External Series | Feb 2015
The effect of within-group heterogeneity on the survival of social groups is theoretically ambiguous. A greater diversity of ideas, experience, and networks ...
Group dynamics, microcredit, fractionalization, inequality, exit, Angola

Does an educated mind take the broader view? A field experiment on in−group favouritism among microcredit clientsDoes an educated mind take the broader view? A field experiment on in−group favouritism among microcredit clients

Journal Article | Feb 2013
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-group favouritism, parochialism, field experiment, social preferences, microcredit, Angola

President Guebuza's own micro-credit program: Development failure and political successPresident Guebuza's own micro-credit program: Development failure and political success

Newspaper Op-Ed | Jun 2010
In 2007, two years after he took power, the President of Mozambique Armando Guebuza launched one of his Presidency’s principal initiatives: The ...
Mozambique

What makes a credit group tick? In-group favouritism among microfinance clientsWhat makes a credit group tick? In-group favouritism among microfinance clients

Angola Brief | Jun 2011
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 ...
Angola

Within-group heterogeneity and group dynamics: Analyzing exit of microcredit groups in AngolaWithin-group heterogeneity and group dynamics: Analyzing exit of microcredit groups in Angola

Journal Article | Dec 2017
The effect of within-group heterogeneity on the survival of social groups is theoretically ambiguous. A greater diversity of ideas, experience, and networks ...
Angola

Microcredit programs: Methods for solving dilemmas of credit expansion

Project | Jan 1997 - Dec 1998
Preparation of a paper on "Microcredit programs: Methods for solving dilemmas of credit expansion" for presentation at a meeting in Manila of the Working ...
Microcredit, Poverty

Micro effects of natural resources: Insights from a survey of Angolan microcredit clientsMicro effects of natural resources: Insights from a survey of Angolan microcredit clients

Book Chapter | Jan 2014
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 ...
Angola

Poverty and entrepreneurshipPoverty and entrepreneurship

Project | Jan 2011 - Dec 2014
In 2010, CMI in cooperation with Development Workshop conducted a survey among 540 clients in two Luanda branches of the Kixicredito micro-credit institution. ...
poverty, entrepreneurship, microcredit, education, social capital, health, Angola

Micro credit for Sustainable Development in AngolaMicro credit for Sustainable Development in Angola

Project | Jan 2008 - Dec 2010
The general question underlying this project is the following: Under which conditions does microfinance actually assist the poor to move out of poverty ...
Poverty, Social capital, Human capital, Angola

Teaching business in Tanzania: Evaluating participation and performanceTeaching business in Tanzania: Evaluating participation and performance

CMI Working Paper | Oct 2009
There is increased awareness that success among small scale entrepreneurs in developing countries requires more than microfinance, and that an important ...
Microcredit, Small enterprises, Business training, Evaluation, Tanzania, Classification-JEL: C93, I21, J24, O12

On the mechanics of microfinanceOn the mechanics of microfinance

Project | Jan 2011 - Dec 2014
Micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries face a number of constraints on business growth. Lack of access to capital has received a lot of attention ...
poverty, entrepreneurship, microcredit, Tanzania

Private sector development: The role of education and business trainingPrivate sector development: The role of education and business training

Project | Jun 2010 - Dec 2013
There is little doubt that private sector development is important for development, and that enabling the poor to become and succeed as entrepreneurs ...
Human capital, Poverty, Entrepreneurship, Bangladesh

Sustaining local level development: What worked and what did not. Lessons from the phasing-out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka 1992-1999

CMI Report | Jan 2003
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 ...
Integrated rural development, Aid impact, Aid evaluation, Sri Lanka, Asia: Sri Lanka

Is oil-rich Angola a development success?

Newspaper Op-Ed | Nov 2012
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 ...
poverty, oil, diversification, Angola