Finance - Matches

The Philippines is a developing country with strong commitment to the millennium development goals (MDGs). However, it faces challenges in closing MDG..

The growth rebalancing model, which places the nontradable services sector on center stage, is important to spur on faster growth in this sector and t..

This Note discusses two major constraints to agricultural finance that hinder private investments in food production. The policy gaps that need govern..

A recent publication of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has highlighted the food insecurity problem facing the globe: food production..

The enactment of two pro-poor housing legislations in the 1990s--the Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA) of 1992 and the Comprehensive Shelter Fi..

This paper reports on the impact evaluation study of the Rural Microenterprise Finance Project (RMFP) in the Philippines. RMFP aimed to support effort..

When poor households face catastrophic events, they do not have any means for risk protection. Access to formal risk protection schemes such as insura..

The paper reviews the innovations developed by some financial institutions to meet the challenges of microfinance and rural finance markets. Innovatio..

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that enable microfinance institutions ..

This study assesses the state of microinsurance in the country, identifies the players and their performance, and the challenges facing microinsurance..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

This book, which is co-published with the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC), provides a review of carefully selected literature and descriptio..

This paper extends the analysis on microfinance and poverty from the household perspective by focusing on the role of other economically active househ..

This paper examines the extent of asset accumulation and saving of the households from the credit they obtained from community-oriented financial inte..

This paper examines the borrowing behavior of the households and the suitability of the loans obtained from the community oriented financial intermedi..