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Enhancing Rural Women's Access to Capital: Why It Is Important and How It Can Be Done. The Case of Colombia [PDF]

Improving access to capital for low wealth households is a vital part of any rural development strategy, especially one designed to rectify long standing rural inequality and to generate broadly-based growth.
Fletschner, Diana
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Digital Rights Activism in Multilevel Governance

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilevel governance (MLG) without a clear hierarchical structure can create power imbalances among various actors, particularly in settings with overlapping jurisdictions and policy areas. This dynamic is especially pronounced in Internet governance, which faces a complex interplay of domestic laws, state interdependence, and heightened ...
Alison Harcourt
wiley   +1 more source

Cooperatives: A Competitive Yardstick for Health Care [PDF]

As the national debate over health care reform continues, consideration is increasingly being given to the use of consumer-focused health care cooperatives as a key strategy for providing access to affordable health care and insurance for the millions ...
Dunn, John R., Edelman, Mark
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Building the Plane While Flying It: How Projects Serve to Implement, Pilot and Co‐Create EU Policy

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article theorizes how projectified governance enables bottom‐up policy shaping in the EU, using the European Universities Initiative (EUI) as a case study. It develops a framework that combines bottom‐up Europeanization with resource exchange theory to explain how project networks influence EU policymaking.
Alina Felder‐Stindt
wiley   +1 more source

Cooperative financial institutions: A review of the literature. [PDF]

Int Rev Financ Anal, 2020
McKillop D, French D, Quinn B, Sobiech AL, Wilson JOS.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Trust: A Concept Too Many [PDF]

Research on "trust" now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more confusion ...
Timothy W. Guinnane
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Emissions Reductions and Economic Feasibility of China's Solar Thermal Power Industry After the Introduction of Chinese Certified Emission Reduction Policy

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To promote the development of renewable energy, China re‐implemented the Chinese Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) policy in 2023. This study explores certificated CO2 and air pollutants (i.e., NOx, SO2 and particulate matter (PM)) emissions reductions from China's solar thermal power (STP) industry at national scale and conducts the ...
Yun Li, Xintong Liu, Yaxuan Han, Xiaoda Xue   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Support services for rural women micro-entrepreneurs in Bangladesh: a sectoral comparison. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Begum J, Kusakabe K, Tsusaka TW.
europepmc   +1 more source

Can an Islamic Model of Housing Finance Cooperative Elevate the Economic Status of the Underprivileged?. [PDF]

This paper was refined during my sabbatical study at James Madison University (JMU). I appreciate the hospitality of JMU particularly that of Ehsan Ahmed.
M. Shahid Ebrahim
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Solid Biofuel Usage and Households' Behavior Toward Energy Choice in Northwest Ethiopia

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
This study analyzed household energy choice behavior in northwest Ethiopia using an integrated energy stacking and decision‐making framework. Evidence shows dominant reliance on solid biomass and a fuel‐stacking pattern, while urban residences, higher income, and education increase clean energy adoption, highlighting the need for pro‐poor, context ...
Habtamu Setargachew Molla, Zemen Ayalew Ayele, Essa Chanie Mussa, Marelign Adugna Mesele   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source