Credit Information Systems in Less Developed Countries: A Test with Microfinance in Guatemala

Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies: Implications for Microfinance

Microcredit fights poverty by expanding access to credit. Some microfinance institutions (MFIs) focus on maximizing profits, and do so while lending to the poor. Others seek to maximize access for the poor subject to a budget constraint. Regardless, nearly all MFIs face pressure from policymakers, donors, and investors to eliminate their reliance on subsidies. Economic modeling, policy, and pra...

Mammography screening in less developed countries

Less developed countries (LDCs) are struggling with an increasing burden of breast cancer. It is important to identify what interventions might be most effective and feasible in reducing overall breast cancer mortality in a resource constrained settings. Mammography screening (MS) utilized in developed countries cannot be equally applied to LDCs. We provide a summary of the status of existing a...

The Informal Sector in Developed and Less Developed Countries

The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of the contributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the Public Choice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionally different types of countries: developed and less developed (developing and transition) countries. The paper focuses on the criteria used to d...

Unite? A Multilevel Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries

specific labor organizations and leftist parties. Yet he emphasized the need to move beyond mobilizing around local, firm-specific, “economic” concerns to create “a political movement that is to say, a movement of the class, with the object of enforcing its interests in a general form, in a form possessing general, socially coercive force” (Tucker 1978:520). Marx fully appreciated that formal o...

Rethinking Education Management Information Systems: Lessons from and Options for Less Developed Countries