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Klinger, Bailey; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Del Carpio, Carlos - Enterprising Psychometrics and Poverty Reduction - 9781461472261 - V9781461472261
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Enterprising Psychometrics and Poverty Reduction

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Description for Enterprising Psychometrics and Poverty Reduction Paperback. Num Pages: 82 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JMB; JMJ; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 145.
This book uses newly collected data with nearly 2000 observations across Africa and Latin America of SME owner/operators to examine if psychometric tools can distinguish the good ones from the bad ones. This book fully describes the development problem and how psychometric tools can help solve it. Moreover, it presents and develops the unique statistical methodologies to deploy psychometric tools for credit screening. This will be the single complete publication of the work to date by the entrepreneurial finance lab, created by Klinger & Khwaja. This work started as a research project at Harvard University’s center for international development, with funding from Google.org. This ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
82
Condition
New
Number of Pages
66
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461472261
SKU
V9781461472261
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99-15

About Klinger, Bailey; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Del Carpio, Carlos
Bailey Klinger is CEO & co-founder of the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. He is the original co-inventor of the EFL technology, and has led both the research and business initiatives to bring that technology to the market. His previous research has centered on entrepreneurship, structural transformation, and private sector growth in developing countries, and he has been published in leading Journals ... Read more

Reviews for Enterprising Psychometrics and Poverty Reduction
"This book is of particularly importance for all those who are interested in the question how micro-credits can be given to individual micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries. The problem for the bank is that there is no credit-history of the micro-entrepreneur and the amount of credit is too small to warrant a detailed evaluation of a business plan. Most often there ... Read more

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