Crowdfunding care in Kenya [PDF]
Crowdfunding to support personal and medical needs has risen in popularity in recent years. Many sociologists are critical of needy individuals’ turn to online fundraising, seeing it as a response to deficits in health care and social protection, and ...
Kusimba, Sibel
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Comparative projects and the limits of choice: ethnography and microfinance in India and Paraguay [PDF]
, 2016 In recent years, microfinance—the suite of financial products offered to the poor—has been widely adopted in international development policy. Organizations around the world have replicated this model successfully.
Kar, Sohini, Schuster, Caroline
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Towards a Marxist theory of financialised capitalism [PDF]
, 2018 In the rapid growth of the literature on financialisation, the term risks becoming meaningless (‘take x, add finance’). This contribution first reviews this literature, highlighting characteristic empirical features at the macroeconomic level and their ...
Powell, Jeffrey
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Intimate technologies for development: micro-philanthropy, crowdfunding platforms, and NGO fundraising in India [PDF]
, 2020 This thesis presents an account of my research on crowdfunding platforms and their nongovernmental organization (NGO) partners in India. The current era of increasing reliance on technological advancement pressures the international development sector to
Banerjee, Shonali Ayesha
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The financialization of poverty [PDF]
, 2015 This is chapter 3 of The Political Economy of Microfinance: Financializing Poverty by the same author.This book helps to understand the enigmatic microfinance sector by tracing its evolution and asking how it works as a financial system.
Mader, Philip
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Reaching the “Bottom of the pyramid”: entrepreneurial strategies at the margins of Brazil [PDF]
, 2019 During the first decade of this century several enterprises in Brazil implementedstrategies to reach the “bottom of the pyramid” through micro-distribution and door-to-door sales.
Rabossi, Fernando
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Accumulation by Microfinance? Explaining the Microfinance Crises in Andhra Pradesh [PDF]
, 2015 The world of microfinance is changing. More and more people are turning to microfinance as neoliberal reforms shape the world, diminishing welfare across the globe.
Stolt, Hanna
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Exploring the Intersection of Digital Virtual Consumption and Family Rituals [PDF]
, 2018 Since Rook (1985) first described important linkages between rituals and consumer behavior, scholars have examined consumer rituals from the perspectives of the individual consumer, marketers, marketing exchanges, and cultural institutions.
Drenten, Jenna M., Zayer, Linda Tuncay
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The ambiguous figures of social enterprise:Gendered flexibility and relational work among the iAgents of Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2017 Trained by social enterprises as objects and instruments of development, Bangladesh's female “Information Agents” adopt the gendered flexibilities implied by new entrepreneurial livelihoods. Switching among multiple roles, these entrepreneurs defy social
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The First Peronists:Indigenous Leaders, Populism, and the Argentine Nation-State [PDF]
, 2019 This article examines indigenous contributions to nation-state formation in Argentina during the first and second presidencies of Juan Perón (1946-55).
Mathias, Christine
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