... postal financialservices by connecting the postal networks to international remittance systems and using
The Role of Postal Networks in Expanding AccesstoFinancialServices ...
attracting the interest of small entrepreneurs and providing limited financial services.
PakPost is the agent of the Ministry of Finance for a range of financialservices
including savings mobilization, ... role in providing accessto basic financial
services, mainly centered on savings. Although the models applied in Asia are different, they tend to have
shortcomings for optimally reaching out to...
...
of savings and retail banks in
access to finance
WSBI has conducted research into the role of savings
banks in providing accessto finance
2
. The level of
access was assessed by measuring the ... wholesale lending to microfinance
institutions for lending to their micro
borrowers. Savings banks could refinance
well-functioning microfinance institutions
individually or indirectly through ... for disbursing of loans and collecting
loan repayments.
Another promising track for savings
banks is to invest their savings deposits in
microfinance institutions by specialising
in wholesale...
... comes toaccessto nance, as well
to understand barriers youth face in interacting and beneting from the nancial sector. Youth face the fol-
lowing three barriers to accessing and using formal ... sav-
ings during the time they received the training.
46
Making Cents International. Presentation- Youth Inclusive Financial Services: The State of the Sector. September 2009. Accessed
online ... banking services
to provide accessto nancial servicesto in- school and
out-of-school youth within the community. Given the
potential of mobile banking to expand access at lower
cost to the...
... that maintains barriers against foreign firms providing
financial services domestically. Many financial markets in Asia are still quite closed to
international competition infinancial services, ... Barriers to Trade in Banking and Financial Services, Thames, No. 41.
Walter, Ingo, 1987, Global competition infinancial services, Washington D.C.: American
Enterprise Institute.
Walter, Ingo, 1993, ... the market in
monitoring financial institutions. The ongoing financial service negotiations at the WTO provides
countries with the opportunity to commit to this opening up, with built -in safeguards...
... licensing new provider types to furnish certain services, or to furnish care in
certain settings. In addition, states can increase access by leveraging Medicaid and SCHIP
service and administrative ... disease – costly in health, social, and financial terms, alike – can be
avoided. In addition to comprehensive dental services per se, the care-seeking supports and
coordination included in EPSDT can ...
Spring 2003.
18
actually obtaining care for their children. Supports such as easy accessto a current directory
of participating dentists and scheduled appointment reminders, as well as coordination...
... excluded from WHP, the remaining non-PPFA clinics would have to absorb a massive
increase in WHP patients in order to maintain the overall 2011 caseload level. Non-PPFA clinics
in Bexar and Dallas ... lose accessto
affordable family planning services and to other women’s health services. This would
likely lead to a substantial increase in the number of unplanned pregnancies to low-
income ... under federal waiver authority. Participants gain accessto family planning services and
counseling, certain screening services, and free accessto contraceptives. WHP clients are not
eligible...
... and AccesstoServices for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis in Canada
way and tailored to the specic needs and interests
of FNIM. This should take into account the social
determinants of health ...
of an integrated federal-provincial-territorial strategy.
12
Additionally, in rural and remote communities, it is often
difcult for women to maintain privacy when seeking
health services, ... FNIM
and to reect the realities they face in their communities.
We wish to reduce the inequity in the availability and
accessibility of sexual and reproductive services for FNIM
and to encourage...
... of intensive training
from CARE in group dynamics and governance and in money management. This training enables the groups to become
self-supporting, to flourish and even to establish and train ... are
committed to providing financial servicesto the poor
must maintain a delicate balance between serving large
numbers of low-income clients and generating enough
income to remain self-sufficient ... is inserting a new column in a spread sheet. We
have total flexibility.”
Mainstreaming microfinance into
the commercial banking sector
While he would like to see the benefits of microfinance
mainstreamed...
... + βR
Mt
+ ε
t
9
1.4 Testing Joint Hypotheses about α and β
Often it is of interest to formulate hypothesis tests that involve both α and β. For
example, consider the joint hypothesis that α =0andβ ... regression
that allows the intercepts and slopes to differ in the two subsamples and the restricted
model (R) is the regression where these parameters are constrained to be the same
in the two subsamples.
The ... cont’d
8
1.3 Testing Hypotheses about β
In the market model regression β measures the contribution of an asset to the vari-
ability of the market index portfolio. One hypothesis of interest is to test...
... we
expect to find the most evidence of impeded access for the
poor elderly who reside in rural areas. We interact the pro-
portion of elderly in poverty with the proportion in rural
areas to include in ... beneficiaries in 2000 CMS Geographic Service Area File, county
CINCREASE Binary indicator of an increase in competition among the MMC plans
available, between 1998–2000, from inverse Herfindahl index
CMS ... one
another. Aggregating specialists and generalists into a sin-
gle physician variable (TOTDOCS) and four different visit
types into a single visits variable (VISITS) solved the mul-
ticollinearity problem...