... 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 financeWSBI has conducted research into the role of savings banks in providing accessto finance2. 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.: AmericanEnterprise Institute.Walter, Ingo, 1993, ... the market in monitoring financial institutions. The ongoing financial service negotiations at the WTO providescountries 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. 18actually 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 Canadaway 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 sectorWhile he would like to see the benefits of microfinance mainstreamed...
... + βRMt+ εt91.4 Testing Joint Hypotheses about α and βOften it is of interest to formulate hypothesis tests that involve both α and β. Forexample, consider the joint hypothesis that α =0andβ ... regressionthat allows the intercepts and slopes to differ in the two subsamples and the restrictedmodel (R) is the regression where these parameters are constrained to be the same in the two subsamples.The ... cont’d81.3 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...
... weexpect to find the most evidence of impeded access for thepoor elderly who reside in rural areas. We interact the pro-portion of elderly in poverty with the proportion in ruralareas to include in ... beneficiaries in 2000 CMS Geographic Service Area File, countyCINCREASE Binary indicator of an increase in competition among the MMC plans available, between 1998–2000, from inverse Herfindahl indexCMS ... oneanother. Aggregating specialists and generalists into a sin-gle physician variable (TOTDOCS) and four different visittypes into a single visits variable (VISITS) solved the mul-ticollinearity problem...