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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, et al.
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Microfinance ‘Plus’ : The Impact of Business Training on Indian Self Help Groups
- 2010
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The provision of business training with microfinance leads to a positive impact on assets for the participating households. We correct for membership selection bias and account for potential training endogeneity with propensity score matching, using data from the Self Help Group microfinance program in India.
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, et al.
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Being Patient with Microfinance : The Impact of Training on Indian Self Help Groups
- 2010
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- We evaluate the impact of training provided by facilitators of Self Help Groups (SHGs). This evaluation provides one of the first studies of the impact of ‘microfinance plus,’ or the disbursement of services beyond credit. Indian SHGs are mainly NGO-formed microfinance groups but funded by commercial banks. We correct for membership selection bias with data on current as well as future SHG members. We then account for potential training endogeneity with propensity score matching. Regression and unadjusted matching results indicate that training does not aid in asset accumulation but can reverse the negative impact of credit on income. However, regression adjusted matching which controls for both participation and training selection bias reveals that training impacts assets but not income. These results are robust to sensitivity analyses performed on these estimates.
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, et al.
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Reducing Vulnerability through Microfinance : Evidence from Indian Self Help Group Program
- 2010
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using cross-sectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential selection bias is eliminated by propensity score matching to estimate the average treatment on treated effect using nearest neighbour matching and local linear regression algorithm. We find that despite a disproportionately high percentage of poor in the SHG members, vulnerability is not significantly different between the SHG and non-SHG members. This result is found to be robust using sensitivity analysis and Rosenbaum bounds method.
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula
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Financial Services for low-income households
- 2010
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In: Handbook of human development and management. - New Delhi, India : Serials Publications. - 9788183873703 ; , s. 173-205
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- Bali Swain, Ranjula, et al.
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Microfinance in Sweden
- 2010
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In: Handbook of microcredit in Europe. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. - 1848441940 ; , s. 239-246
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