17. A practitioner’s view of the challenges facing NGO-based microfinance in Bangladesh

Rahman, Saidur

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“…Other studies of the impact of LDC graduation have exclusively focused on Bangladesh, given its looming 2026 graduation date and significant generic pharmaceutical industry. [23][24][25][26][27] A recent study found Bangladesh's LDC graduation can be expected to significantly increase the price of insulin, which could result in a 15 percent decline in the welfare of households in Bangladesh with one or more members living with diabetes. 28 Most of the studies have focused on the implications of graduation for Bangladesh's generic industry rather than on outcomes for access to medicine in Bangladesh.…”

Section: Cambodia's Socioeconomic Situationmentioning

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Cambodia's Imminent Graduation from Least Developed Country Status: What Will be the Impact of the TRIPS Agreement on Access to HIV and Hepatitis C Medicines in Cambodia?

Tenni,

Lexchin,

Phin

et al. 2024

International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Heal

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Cambodia has experienced exponential economic growth in recent years and is expected to graduate from least developed country (LDC) status within the next decade. Membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will require Cambodia to grant product and process patents for pharmaceuticals upon LDC graduation. This study aims to measure the impact of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on the price of HIV and hepatitis C medicine in Cambodia once it graduates from LDC status and is obliged to make patents available for pharmaceutical products and processes. Using scenarios based on likely outcomes of accession to the TRIPS Agreement, it measures the impact on the price of the HIV treatment program and compares that impact with the hepatitis C treatment program. Graduation from LDC status would be expected to result in a modest increase in the cost of the antiretroviral (ARV) treatment program and very large increases in the cost of the direct acting antivirals (DAA) treatment program. If annual treatment budgets remain constant, patent protection could see 1,515 fewer people living with HIV able to access ARV treatment and 2,577 fewer people able to access DAA treatment (a drop in treatment coverage of 93%).

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Section: Cambodia's Socioeconomic Situationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cambodia's Imminent Graduation from Least Developed Country Status: What Will be the Impact of the TRIPS Agreement on Access to HIV and Hepatitis C Medicines in Cambodia?

Tenni,

Lexchin,

Phin

et al. 2024

International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Heal

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“…Yet, despite operating in an environment characterized by moral hazard and adverse selection, most Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) offer a limited number of contract types (Rahman, 2007, Banerjee and Duflo, 2011, Dehejia et al, 2012. This behavior is usually justified by the argument that, in order to reduce operating costs and hire less specialized personnel, microfinance products must be as streamlined and standardized as possible.…”

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Microcredit and Price Competition: Standardize to Differentiate

Casini

2014

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractMicrofinance institutions, despite the presence of competition and informational asymmetries, typically offer a limited variety of contracts. Assuming price competition, we propose a simple theoretical explanation for this behavior and study its consequences in terms of strategic interaction and borrower welfare. We model an oligopolistic market in which Microfinance Institutions design their contracts and choose how many of them to offer. We find that when offering a menu is costly, MFIs always offer a single contract. Despite that, there exist equilibria in which MFIs coordinate and offer screening contracts, allowing them to extract a large fraction of the borrower welfare. We discuss the policy implications of our model in terms of price caps, market entry and outreach measurement.

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How do links between households and NGOs promote disaster resilience and recovery?: A case study of linking social networks on the Bangladeshi coast

2015

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17. A practitioner’s view of the challenges facing NGO-based microfinance in Bangladesh

Cited by 6 publications

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Cambodia's Imminent Graduation from Least Developed Country Status: What Will be the Impact of the TRIPS Agreement on Access to HIV and Hepatitis C Medicines in Cambodia?

Cambodia's Imminent Graduation from Least Developed Country Status: What Will be the Impact of the TRIPS Agreement on Access to HIV and Hepatitis C Medicines in Cambodia?

Microcredit and Price Competition: Standardize to Differentiate

How do links between households and NGOs promote disaster resilience and recovery?: A case study of linking social networks on the Bangladeshi coast

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