Charity or Investment: Linguistic Features of Identifiable Victim Effect in Microlending

Semi Min, Natalia Levina

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Original languageEnglish (US)
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event38th International Conference on Information Systems: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation, ICIS 2017 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Dec 10 2017Dec 13 2017

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Other38th International Conference on Information Systems: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation, ICIS 2017
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period12/10/1712/13/17

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Kiva is the largest prosocial lending platform that supports lending to entrepreneurs in the developing countries who cannot get financial support from traditional funding sources. As of 2016, Kiva connects 2.2 million borrowers and 1.6 million lenders from 82 countries. All lending through Kiva takes place in U.S. dollars. Kiva has made a total of US 947 million loans, and the historic repayment rate has been 97.2%.

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