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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
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A model of credit limits and bankruptcy with applications to welfare and indebtedness [PDF]
This paper presents a macroeconomic model of unsecured consumer debt and default where credit conditions consist of pre-approved interest rates and borrowing limits, a feature of actual credit cards.
Mateos-Planas, Xavier
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers remain structurally excluded from the current agricultural finance system. Existing research in this area examines financial inclusion through fragmented environmental, social, and economic lenses, limiting system‐level understanding.
Vaibhav Aggarwal +2 more
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, 2012 Estimating Recovery Rate and Recovery Amount has become important in consumer credit because of the new Basel Accord regulation and because of the increase in number of defaulters due to the recession.
Lyn C. Thomas +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between financial inclusion, institutional quality, and female labor force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa over the period 1990–2023. Using panel data for 43 countries and employing OLS, FGLS, and dynamic GMM estimators, the analysis examines whether access to financial institutions and financial markets ...
Joshua Chukwuma Onwe +3 more
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Non-price competition in credit card markets through bundling and bank level benefits
The attempts to explain the high and sticky credit card rates have given rise to a vast literature on credit card markets. This paper endeavors to explain the rates in the Turkish market using measures of non-price competition.
Akin, Guzin Gulsun +3 more
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Consumer Response to Changes in Credit Supply: Evidence from Credit Card Data [PDF]
This paper utilizes a unique new data set on credit card accounts to analyze how people respond to changes in credit supply. The data consist of a panel of several hundred thousand individual credit card accounts followed monthly for 24-36 months, from ...
Nicholas Souleles, David Gross
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Central Bank Digital Currencies, Financial Inclusion, and Privacy: A Normative Perspective
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a digital form of a nation's money, issued by its central bank. As opposed to other forms of digital money, such as electronic bank balances or cryptocurrencies, they are centrally managed legal tender.
Andrew Allison, Alexander William Salter
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MARKET POWER AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY IN NETWORK INDUSTRIES: EVIDENCE FROM PAYMENT CARDS WITHIN MULTIPRODUCT BANKING [PDF]
Theoretical contributions on network industries have been numerous. However, there is a lack of sufficient empirical evidence which would assist related policymaking. This is the case of payment cards markets.
Santiago Carbó-Valverde +2 more
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Who Takes High‐Earning CTE Pathways?
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wage gaps across demographic groups in the U.S. labor market are well documented. A key question is the degree to which group‐based sorting into high‐ versus low‐paying occupations reflects underlying preferences, versus structural barriers or prior educational experiences.
Celeste K. Carruthers +6 more
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