Microfinance and the role of the State: No Pago Movement in Nicaragua

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Microfinance and the role of the State: No Pago Movement in Nicaragua

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Microfinances have proven to be a powerful tool for enabling access to credit to a part of society that would not get this access under normal banking institutions. The region of Central America has a quite developed sector of microfinances and out of that Nicaragua traditionally was a country with both largest amount of borrowers and resources borrowed. In recent years, Nicaragua has suffered a huge setback in its microfinance sector, caused by various reasons. Although we are fully aware of the fact that there were other factors in play, we concentrate mainly on one particular factor -- the role of the government and its support to the so called No Pago (Non-Payment) movement. We do that to show how the government's actions can influence the development of microfinances. To be able to abstract from the other factors, that generally weakened the position of MFIs in Central America (as is the world finance crisis), we try to set the situation in Nicaragua into a broader picture by comp

Název v anglickém jazyce

Microfinance and the role of the State: No Pago Movement in Nicaragua

Popis výsledku anglicky

Microfinances have proven to be a powerful tool for enabling access to credit to a part of society that would not get this access under normal banking institutions. The region of Central America has a quite developed sector of microfinances and out of that Nicaragua traditionally was a country with both largest amount of borrowers and resources borrowed. In recent years, Nicaragua has suffered a huge setback in its microfinance sector, caused by various reasons. Although we are fully aware of the fact that there were other factors in play, we concentrate mainly on one particular factor -- the role of the government and its support to the so called No Pago (Non-Payment) movement. We do that to show how the government's actions can influence the development of microfinances. To be able to abstract from the other factors, that generally weakened the position of MFIs in Central America (as is the world finance crisis), we try to set the situation in Nicaragua into a broader picture by comp

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AD - Politologie a politické vědy

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2013

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Proceedings from VIII. International Conference on Applied Business Research ICABR 2013

ISBN

978-0-620-55419-0

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

8

Strana od-do

264-271

Název nakladatele

Mendel University in Brno

Místo vydání

Brno

Místo konání akce

East London, South Africa

Datum konání akce

22. 4. 2013

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

337230600024