Manohar Sharma, Manfred Zeller
Manfred Zeller, Richard L. Meyer, Zeller, Manfred, Meyer, Richard L.
Contents: List of FiguresList of TablesList of BoxesForeword Preface 1 Improving the Preformance of Microfinance: Financial Sustainability, Outreach, and Impact MANFRED ZELLER AND RICHARD L. MEYERPART I Access to and Demand for Financial Services by the Poor 2 Access to and Demand for Financial Serv...
Aliou Diagne, Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, Diagne, Aliou et al.
This paper presents a new methodological framework for measuring the level and household to bear the additional risk. A household determinants of household access to credit and may also benefit from mere access to credit, even if it credit constraints, and the effects of access to credit is not borr...
Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma
The authors examine the lessons that rural financial institutions such as banks and cooperatives can learn from the informal lending sector. They also considers the roles government should play in the provision of financial services. The report’s findings are gleaned from a series of detailed househ...
Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma, Akhter Ahmed, Shahidur Rashid
Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) made valuable comments on the survey, questionnaire design, and some
Shahidur Rashid, Manohar Sharma, Manfred Zeller
Despite higher profitability of High Yielding Varieties (HYVs), it has long been hypothesized that lack of access to credit is one of the main reasons, why farmers in developing countries continue to allocate a portion of their land to traditional crop varieties. The empirical testing of this hypoth...
Manohar Sharma, Manfred Zeller
Bangladesh has witnessed major strides in providing financial services to the rural poor. These services are provided largely through innovative group-based credit programs of several nongovernmental organizations. The implicit but widespread assumption has been that they are indeed placed in specia...
Manohar Sharma, Manfred Zeller
Manohar Sharma, Manfred Zeller
This paper analyzes the repayment rates of credit groups belonging to three group-based credit programs in Bangladesh: the Association for Social Advancement (ASA), the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), and the Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS). Hypotheses are drawn from economic th...
Manfred Zeller, Nazaire Houssou, Gabriela Alcaraz V., Stefan Schwarze et al.
Developing accurate, yet operational poverty assessment tools to target the poorest households remains a challenge for applied policy research. This paper aims to develop poverty assessment tools for four countries: Bangladesh, Peru, Uganda, and Kazakhstan. The research applies the Principal Compone...
Aliou Diagne, Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma
This paper presents a new methodological framework for measuring the level of household access to credit. It provides an analytical framework for examining the determinants of household credit limits and derives implications on information needed to examine the extent to which households are credit ...
Gabriela Alcaraz V., Manfred Zeller
An important dimension of poverty is access to food. Household food security implies access to the food needed for a healthy and productive life. Lack of access to and/or impaired utilization of food contribute to household food insecurity. This study compares the usefulness of a standardized food i...
Manfred Zeller, Joseph Feulefack, Andreas Neef, Zeller, Manfred et al.
PWR is a participatory poverty assessment method that uses the ratings of local reference groups concerning the relative poverty status of households in their community. This paper assesses the accuracy of PWR in predicting absolute (income) poverty, and compares PWR with three other poverty assessm...
Ling Khor, Nhuong Van Tran, Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku, Natália Evangelista Campos et al.
Polyculture of fish is a common pond-based aquaculture system practiced by small-scale producers in developing countries to improve input use efficiency, and increase productivity and profits. We conduct a cross-country comparison to examine whether the economic and productivity benefits are seen in...
Manfred Zeller, Julia Johannsen
Microfinance is often seen as an effective tool to reach the poor, yet there is a paucity of studies on the poverty level of microfinance clients, differentiated by type of microfinance institution. This paper seeks to make a contribution in closing that knowledge gap, and focuses on Bangladesh and ...