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In its attempt to contribute to the understanding of the behavior of one segment of the cooperative movement, this paper analyzes the performance of t..

One of the issues contending the rural borrowers, who are composed of small entrepreneurs, fishermen and farmers, is the access to financial services ..

Utilizing data from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, this study conducts a comparative study of informal markets (ICM). It ..

This compendium of 27 case studies focuses on the profession of informal moneylending in the urban and rural sectors. It attempts to offer answers to ..

How does housing affect households’ health status? How does housing interact with other health inputs? What trade-offs exist between housing and med..

The provision of decent housing to millions of Filipinos has always been the goal of the government. However, not much has been achieved. This ..

Less developed countries are usually characterized by a dualistic financial system: the formal and informal credit system. One form of the latter is t..

In its attempt to characterize the existing financing schemes of the footwear manufacturing industry in Marikina, this paper investigates and document..

This paper reviews the monetary and credit policies that directly or indirectly bear on the rise and fall of informal credit markets. It also describe..

This paper makes a brief review of the good intentions that has resulted to the world’s worst financial recession. It offers several measures necess..

Do guarantee programs lead to additionality in agricultural lending? Do guarantee programs contribute to small loans? Do guarantee programs encourage ..

This paper integrates the major results of the various studies on urban informal credit markets (ICMs). While the terms of references cover a wide ran..

After a series of launching, shelving and relaunching, critical issues now face the Tariff Reform Program. Rumors have it that a reversal of t..

No other issue since EDSA Revolution has so bitterly polarized the Philippine society than the proposed agrarian reform program. The landless,..

The sensitive issue of poverty made the past regime reluctant to make official estimates of poverty incidence. At best, there have been vague ..