2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Reaching the unreached: The ultra poverty reduction
Project/Area Number |
24402023
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
Section | 海外学術 |
Research Field |
Economic policy
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Research Institution | Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization |
Principal Investigator |
Ito Seiro 独立行政法人日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, 開発研究センターミクロ経済研究グループ, グループ長 (50450482)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
Abu Shonchoy アジア経済研究所, 在ニューヨーク海外派遣員 (40617461)
Takahashi Kazushi 上智大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (90450551)
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Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
Kurosaki Takashi 一橋大学, 経済研究所, 教授 (90293159)
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Keywords | 経済政策 / 金融論 / 貧困削減 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the barriers for the ultra poor to utilise microfinance. Namely, lack of entrepreneurship, a long waiting period, and higher default risks. We teamed up with an NGO that provides microfinance services to the ultra poor in Northern Bangladesh. We implemented: multiple rounds of household surveys and experimental interventions that randomly assign the eligibility to participate in which they are given a particular type of loan contract. Contract types are varied by the member groups: a regular sized loan, a large sized loan without a grace period, a large sized loan with a grace period, a large sized packaged loan for cow investments. Our first results are to appear in a peer reviewed journal.
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Free Research Field |
開発経済学
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