Documents et rapports
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Give Me a Pass : Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia (anglais)
Most small firms in developing countries have large month-to-month fluctuations in their income stream due to seasonality and unanticipated positive and negative shocks such as business opportunities...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 178817 Date du document: 1 janvier 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brune,Lasse Florian,Gine,Xavier,Karlan,Dean S.
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Give Me a Pass : Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia (anglais)
Microcredit promised business growth for small firms lacking access to banking loans. Although microcredit has reached millions, recent randomized evaluations find limited average business impacts. Critics...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10235 Date du document: 17 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brune,Lasse Florian,Gine,Xavier,Karlan,Dean S.
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How Important Is Temptation Spending? Maybe Less than We Thought (anglais)
Temptation plays a key role in theoretical work on spending and saving in developing countries. The limited empirical evidence on its importance, however, suggests that cash transfers do not induce increases...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 186295 Date du document: 8 janvier 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brune,Lasse Florian,Kerwin,Jason Theodore,Qingxiao Li
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Savings defaults and payment delays for cash transfers: field experimental evidence from Malawi (anglais)
Financial products and transfer schemes are often designed to help individuals improve welfare by following through on intertemporal plans. This paper implements an artefactual field experiment in Malawi...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7807 Date du document: 31 août 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brune,Lasse Florian,Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Yang,Dean
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Commitments to save : a field experiment in rural Malawi (anglais)
This paper reports the results of a field experiment that randomly assigned smallholder cash crop farmers formal savings accounts. In collaboration with a microfinance institution in Malawi, the authors...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5748 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brune,Lasse Florian,Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Yang,Dean