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Cutting to the roots of a problem: HarborOne Multicultural Center [PDF]
After Brockton immigrants were taken advantage of by unscrupulous lenders, a credit union decided to tackle root causes. Its resulting learning center, profitable today, is a prime example of doing well by doing good.Immigrants - Massachusetts ; Credit ...
Caroline Ellis
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Still Waiting: "Unfair or Deceptive" Credit Card Practices Continue as Americans Wait for New Reforms to Take Effect [PDF]
, 2009 Examines trends in credit card practices deemed "unfair or deceptive" under Federal Reserve guidelines to take effect in 2010 among the largest bank and credit union issuers.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy +2 more
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IEEE AccessThe supervision effectiveness evaluation of small and medium sized (SMS) financial institutions in rural areas is a multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM).
Yarong Wang, Chengkun Liu, Chengtao Deng
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Informal Savings and Credit Institutions in the Urban Areas: The Case of Cooperative Credit Unions [PDF]
Less developed countries are usually characterized by a dualistic financial system: the formal and informal credit system. One form of the latter is the Cooperative Credit Union (CCU), which at present finds shelter in the private and government offices ...
Balbosa, Joven Zamoras +1 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Outsourcing, firm size, and product complexity: evidence from credit unions [PDF]
Outsourcing business services is a key concern in the modern economy. Focusing on data processing services for credit unions from 1994 to 2003, the authors find that both credit union size and the diversity of their product offerings influence the ...
Victor Stango, Yukako Ono
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Advanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.Glioblastoma mortality is driven by cell invasion and therapeutic resistance. We report a cancer engineering approach to evaluate the behavior of heterogeneous cohorts of temozolomide resistant and responsive GBM cells. We show the effect of physiologically‐relevant metronomic dosing on ensemble drug response and invasion.
Victoria A. Kriuchkovskaia +5 more
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The Role of the Deposit Guarantee System in Raising the Level of Public Confidence in Depository Institutions [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2018 The main aim of the article is to study the essence of the deposit guarantee system and determine its role in increasing the level of public confidence in depository institutions.
Prokopenko Valeriia Yu. +1 more
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