The New Moneylenders: Are the Poor Being Exploited by High Microcredit Interest Rates?

By R. Rosenberg, Adrian Gonzalez, Sushma Narain. 2009

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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1. Adair Morse
2. Bert D’Espallier
3. Raj Aggarwal
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8. Benjamin J. Keys

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2. Raj Aggarwal
3. A. Vanroose

Citations in the corpus

• Information Disclosure, Cognitive Biases and Payday Borrowing and Payday Borrowing (2011, background): “The Treatment compares a typical payday lending interest rate (443”
• Do microfinance institutions accomplish their mission? Evidence from the relationship between traditional financial sector development and microfinance institutions’ outreach and performance (2013, background): “MFIs are increasingly using domestic bank credit as a finance channel to expand their activities (Rosenberg et al., 2009). de Crombrugghe et al. (2008) show that an increasing number of MFIs need external commercial funding once donors stop funding.”
• Lending to women in microfinance: Role of social trust (2015, background): “For example, while Kar and Swain (2014), and Rosenberg, Gonzalez, and Narain (2009) note that women may be especially targeted by MFIs and MFIs have been very successful in serving women borrowers especially in some countries, little is known about international differences in the microfinance…”