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Dale W Adams - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Informal Finance IN A SEMI-RURAL AREA OF THE PHILIPPINES / LA Finance INFORMELLE DANS UNE ZONE SEMI-RURALE PHILIPPINES
2020Co-Authors: Dale W Adams, Virginia Nazarea-sandovalAbstract:Authors describe various forms of Informal Finance in a semi-rural area in the Philip pines. This includes pawning, rotating savings and credit groups, Informal lotteries, in stallment buying, and a diversity of other miscellaneous forms. A fairly well developed formal financial system was also used for deposit purposed by many of the people in volved in Informal Finance. The authors concluded that financial markets were highly competitive, that poor people often used Informal Finance as a way of saving, and that Informal loans were often extended by people who had low incomes. LA Finance INFORMELLE DANS UNE ZONE SEMI-RURALE PHILIPPINES
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Informal Finance in a semi rural area of the philippines
2016Co-Authors: Dale W Adams, Virginia NazareasandovalAbstract:Financial transactions that occur beyond the purview of government regulators-Informal Finance-have increasingly attracted attention. Some of the most interesting recent work on this topic has been done in the Philippines where numerous rural as well as urban studies reveal a collage of Informal credit and deposit arrangements.1 Little research has been done in the Philippines, or elsewhere, however, on households that combine agricultural activities with urban occupations-what we call semi-rural. It is not clear if Informal financial arrangements in these fringe areas are patterned after those in ur ban centers or after those in rural areas, or are some combination of both. We attempt to shed light on these issues in the discussion that follows. We also draw some lessons from our study of Informal Finance that may be useful to policy makers who are trying to improve formal financial markets.
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Informal Finance in egypt banks within banks
World Development, 1995Co-Authors: Mayada M Baydas, Zakaria Bahloul, Dale W AdamsAbstract:Abstract Policy makers often assume that individuals using Informal Finance are forced to do so because they lack access to formal financial services. Research in a large agricultural bank in Egypt, however, showed that many of its employees participated in Informal Finance. Interviews with villagers in a community with a branch of the bank also showed extensive involvement in Informal Finance. The popularity of Informal Finance among people with easy access to banks suggests that formal Finance in Egypt may not be providing the types of financial services that people demand and they therefore, create these services Informally.
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using contracts to analyze Informal Finance
1992Co-Authors: Dale W Adams, F J A Bouman, Otto HospesAbstract:For centuries discussions about Informal Finance have been filled with confusion and controversy (Nelson 1949)1. Moralists condemn it, politicians attempt to control and regulate it, sociologists debate its usefulness, economists dissect it looking for imperfections -while billions of people voluntarily participate in it. Fashioning a composite picture of Informal Finance is similar to summing the disjointed reports of judgmental blind people who have independently felt an elephant’s appendage; the parts depicted do not add to a coherent whole. This confusion justifies looking for new ways of analyzing Informal Finance, ways that do not prejudge the virtue of the activities and people involved, that employ common units of analysis, and that also apply research techniques representing the manner in which people make decisions. I propose using contracts as a framework for such analysis. Because of my professional interests I stress their economic aspects.
Kam C Chan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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does religion matter to Informal Finance evidence from trade credit in china
Regional Studies, 2019Co-Authors: Kam C ChanAbstract:ABSTRACTInformal Finance plays an important role in transitional economies with weak legal institutions, such as China. As a major Informal Finance instrument, trade credit relies on Informal insti...
Vojislav Maksimovic - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Formal versus Informal Finance: Evidence from China
Review of Financial Studies, 2010Co-Authors: M. Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-kunt, Vojislav MaksimovicAbstract:The fast growth of Chinese private sector firms is taken as evidence that Informal Finance can facilitate firm growth better than formal banks in developing countries. We examine firm financing patterns and growth using a database of twenty-four hundred Chinese firms. While a relatively small percentage of firms utilize bank loans, bank financing is associated with faster growth whereas Informal financing is not. Controlling for selection, we find that firms with bank financing grow faster than similar firms without bank financing and that our results are not driven by bank corruption or the selection of firms that have accessed the formal financial system. Our findings question whether reputation and relationship-based financing are responsible for the performance of the fastest-growing firms in developing countries.
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formal versus Informal Finance evidence from china
Review of Financial Studies, 2008Co-Authors: M. Ayyagari, Asli Demirguckunt, Vojislav MaksimovicAbstract:China is often mentioned as a counterexample to the findings in the Finance and growth literature since, despite the weaknesses in its banking system, it is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The fast growth of Chinese private sector firms is taken as evidence that it is alternative financing and governance mechanisms that support China's growth. This paper takes a closer look at firm financing patterns and growth using a database of 2,400 Chinese firms. The authors find that a relatively small percentage of firms in the sample utilize formal bank Finance with a much greater reliance on Informal sources. However, the results suggest that despite its weaknesses, financing from the formal financial system is associated with faster firm growth, whereas fund raising from alternative channels is not. Using a selection model, the authors find no evidence that these results arise because of the selection of firms that have access to the formal financial system. Although firms report bank corruption, there is no evidence that it significantly affects the allocation of credit or the performance of firms that receive the credit. The findings suggest that the role of reputation and relationship based financing and governance mechanisms in financing the fastest growing firms in China is likely to be overestimated.
M. Ayyagari - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Formal versus Informal Finance: Evidence from China
Review of Financial Studies, 2010Co-Authors: M. Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-kunt, Vojislav MaksimovicAbstract:The fast growth of Chinese private sector firms is taken as evidence that Informal Finance can facilitate firm growth better than formal banks in developing countries. We examine firm financing patterns and growth using a database of twenty-four hundred Chinese firms. While a relatively small percentage of firms utilize bank loans, bank financing is associated with faster growth whereas Informal financing is not. Controlling for selection, we find that firms with bank financing grow faster than similar firms without bank financing and that our results are not driven by bank corruption or the selection of firms that have accessed the formal financial system. Our findings question whether reputation and relationship-based financing are responsible for the performance of the fastest-growing firms in developing countries.
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formal versus Informal Finance evidence from china
Review of Financial Studies, 2008Co-Authors: M. Ayyagari, Asli Demirguckunt, Vojislav MaksimovicAbstract:China is often mentioned as a counterexample to the findings in the Finance and growth literature since, despite the weaknesses in its banking system, it is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The fast growth of Chinese private sector firms is taken as evidence that it is alternative financing and governance mechanisms that support China's growth. This paper takes a closer look at firm financing patterns and growth using a database of 2,400 Chinese firms. The authors find that a relatively small percentage of firms in the sample utilize formal bank Finance with a much greater reliance on Informal sources. However, the results suggest that despite its weaknesses, financing from the formal financial system is associated with faster firm growth, whereas fund raising from alternative channels is not. Using a selection model, the authors find no evidence that these results arise because of the selection of firms that have access to the formal financial system. Although firms report bank corruption, there is no evidence that it significantly affects the allocation of credit or the performance of firms that receive the credit. The findings suggest that the role of reputation and relationship based financing and governance mechanisms in financing the fastest growing firms in China is likely to be overestimated.
H U Zongy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the study on the effect of formal and Informal rural Finance on the income of rural residents a spatial econometric analysis based on the panel data of 30 provinces
Economic Geography, 2014Co-Authors: H U ZongyAbstract:Using the data of 30 provinces in China from 2003 to 2010,this paper explores the effect of formal and Informal rural Finance on the income of rural residents,and analyzes the difference of the effects in different income level by applying panel quantile regression.The results shows that there is a spatial polarization in rural residents' income and the spatial spillover effect is obvious.Rural Informal Finance promotes the growth of farmers' income significantly while the rural formal Finance does not.The promoting effect gets weaker as the rural residents' income increases, which indicates that rural Informal Finance contributes to narrowing the gap between rich and poor.