Finance - Matches

Microfinance banks have, through the years, shown a remarkable ability to reach low-income borrowers, most of whom do not have bankable assets to serv..

This Notes outlines the sad experience of the supply-led credit policy and subsidized direct credit programs (DCPs) in the Philippines. Said failure h..

This study evaluates the absorptive capacity of a government agency for domestic and external funds. It takes the case of the Department of Public Wor..

This paper has reviewed existing policies and programs to encourage banks to expand their financial services to micro, small- and medium-sized ent..

This book is a critical study on housing subsidies, one of the principal instruments the government uses to provide the lower income segment of the po..

The paper provides an assessment of the Community Mortgage Program as a government-housing program for households belonging to the lowest income decil..

In order to promote microfinance or the provision of a broad range of financial services to poor and low-income households for their microenterprises ..

This paper has re-examined the role of Land Bank of the Philippines, a government-owned bank, in light of the recent reforms and developments in the P..

With housing policy declared as a priority policy concern of the Estrada administration, it is only logical to expect that an effective and sustainabl..

A liberalized and deregulated financial market environment as well as good governance are better ingredients than government-subsidized and directed c..

The paper discusses current government attempts to shift to market-based housing finance in the context of the past performance of the government's ho..

A subset of the informal financial institutions that has been recently used as lending conduits of special credit programs is the credit union system...

This issue does not comment on the alleged role of microfinancial institutions in alleviating poverty. Neither does it discuss the supposed link betwe..

Despite the government’s credit program approach, access of poor households to microfinancial services has remained limited. This paper explains the..