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Risk management in Lithuanian and Irish credit unions: Trends and impacts on credit union development [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this article is to examine the Irish and Lithuanian credit union movements in terms of risk management and risk performance, and to discuss credit union risk regulation.
Kaupelyte, Dalia, McCarthy, Olive
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Building Community Assets: Growing Lower-Income Credit Union Membership through Community and Credit Union Partnerships [PDF]
, 2008 This report details the partnership process and lessons learned from a two-year technical assistance program designed to help community organizations partner with mainstream credit unions with the goal of enrolling new lower-income members or expanding ...
Marva Williams, Sarah Duda, Tom Feltner
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Credit unions and the common bond [PDF]
, 1998 Credit Unions are cooperative financial institutions specializing in the basic financial needs of certain groups of consumers. A distinguishing feature of credit unions is the legal requirement that members share a common bond.
Emmons, William R., Schmid, Frank A.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Perennial bioenergy crops, such as miscanthus and switchgrass, and crop residues have the potential to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production and mitigate carbon emissions. However, high establishment costs, delayed returns, and risk–return profiles that diverge from those of conventional crops can hinder incentives to adopt ...
Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao
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Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan: Kajian Masalah Ekonomi dan Pembangunan, 2022 Most Indonesian credit unions still focus on providing financial services, paying less attention to the roles of credit unions in education, empowerment and flourishing social solidarity of their members. This condition makes credit unions hardly compete
Stephanus Eri Kusuma, Antonius Sumarwan
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
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As cooperativas de crédito rural solidárias como indutoras do desenvolvimento local [PDF]
Revista IDEAS, 2011 The objective of this paper is to develop a conceptual analysis on operation of solidary rural credit unions, linked primarily to family agriculture and propositions to induce local development processes.
Alan Ferreira de Freitas +1 more
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