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Alternative microfinance institutions and vulnerability
Development in Practice, 1999The author argues, using the example of microfinance institutions, that it is essential to build genuinely solid and alternative institutions if development is to take its direction from the poor and vulnerable. He sets out his view of the characteristics such institutions would have, and the vulnerabilities currently seen in microfinance institutions.
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Alternative institutional responses to asbestos
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1996The level of asbestos risk varies widely, with insulation workers facing risks many orders of magnitude greater than other groups, such as school children. After a period of regulatory neglect, asbestos risks are now among the mos stringently regulated risks, with costs per case of cancer prevented on the order of $100 million.
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On Institutions and Power: Deconstruction and an Alternative
1991Social and political institutions, it is generally agreed, are “practical necessities” for human existence. If this is indeed the case, as I will assume, then philosophical positions which misconstrue them and the power exercised in and by them or misjudge how we should deal with them are seriously flawed.
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Institutional alternatives to the rural hospital.
Health care financing review, 1990An important aspect of the ongoing debate on rural health policy is how to deliver inpatient care in sparsely populated rural areas. One alternative is to create a new classification of rural inpatient facility that would deliver more limited services than available in a rural hospital, have more flexibility in staffing requirements, and possibly be ...
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Alternative Investments in the Institutional Portfolio
The Journal of Alternative Investments, 2000This study provides an update of an earlier analysis (Schneeweis and Spurgin, [1999]) of the risk and return benefits of various hedge funds and managed futures investments as stand-alone investments or as part of an investor9s diversified stock/bond portfolio.
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Institutions and Alternatives: An Overview
Journal of Social Issues, 1981Marybeth Shinn, Barbara J. Felton
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The Institution as the Cornerstone for Alternatives to Institutionalization
The Gerontologist, 1974openaire +2 more sources
Alternatives to Institutional Care for the Elderly and Disabled
The Gerontologist, 1972H, Kistin, R, Morris
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