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Measuring the effect of the national credit act on indebtedness in South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2015
South Africa continues to exhibit high levels of debt-to-disposable income along with a high number of impaired credit records. The National Credit Act No. 34 of 2005 (NCA) was established in order to address these high levels.
Shaun De Wet, Ilse Botha, Marno Booyens
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Debt Deception: How Debt Buyers Abuse the Legal System to Prey on Lower-Income New Yorkers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this report, we examine lawsuits filed by debt buyers and their profound impact on low- and moderate-income New Yorkers, lower-income communities, and communities of color. We begin, in Part I, with background on the debt buying industry, including an
Claudia Wilner, Nasoan Sheftel-Gomes
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Sovereign debt: Do we need an EU solution? Bertelsmann Stiftung EUROPA Briefing 2017 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
High levels of sovereign debt have become a serious issue in the Eurozone. This does not just affect the individual member states: The European debt crisis has shown that difficulties in one euro-area country can spread to the entire currency union. What
Haas, Jörg
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Exchanging through difference

open access: yesVibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 2018
This article presents and discusses different sorts of economic exchange between nut gatherers from the São Francisco do Iratapuru community, in Brazilian Amazonia, and Brazil’s largest cosmetics company, Natura.
Magda dos Santos Ribeiro
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Student Debt and the Class of 2008 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Analyzes state-by-state trends in the average debt of 2008 graduates and percentages of graduates with debt. Lists high- and low-debt states and campuses.

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Wait For It: Identifying "On-Hold" Self-Admitted Technical Debt [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2019
Self-admitted technical debt refers to situations where a software developer knows that their current implementation is not optimal and indicates this using a source code comment. In this work, we hypothesize that it is possible to develop automated techniques to understand a subset of these comments in more detail, and to propose tool support that can
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Climate Change in Microcredit Portfolios: Evidence on Vulnerability, Adaptation and Implications for Inclusive Finance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses new challenges to the social mission and financial viability of microfinance institutions (MFIs). These include the vulnerability of borrowers, increased credit risks and the need to adapt to the changing climate. Using a novel microcredit data set, we first study the prevalence of climatic hazards and vulnerabilities in ...
Gregor Dorfleitner   +2 more
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