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Microfinance and economic development [PDF]
Microfinance is generally seen as a way to fix credit markets and unleash the productive capacities of poor people who are dependent on self-employment. The microfinance sector has grown quickly since the 1990s, paving the way for other forms of social enterprise and social investment. But recent evidence shows only modest average impacts on customers,
Cull, Robert, Morduch, Jonathan
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The economics of agricultural development: what have we learned?
Agricultural development thinking has gone through several stages of fad and fancy, often without an understanding of previous fallacies. Its current doldrums are unfortunate given the unrivaled importance of agricultural development for poverty ...
Roumasset James
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QUALITATIVE INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS OF THE BRAZILIAN STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION, 2005 - 2014
This paper investigates the changes to the essential economic structure of the Brazilian economy from 2005 to 2014. It uses the method of qualitative input-output analysis and its extensions, applied by Aroche-Reyes (1996) and Gosh and Roy (1998), to ...
Henrique Morrone
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In the 1970s, in France, a few researchers such as Ignacy Sachs and René Passet elaborated innovative research programmes to have a better understanding of development (North and South) and environmental issues.
Christophe Cassen, Antoine Missemer
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L’approche latino-américaine de l’économie populaire, les inégalités et la pauvreté
This article analyses the evolution of the policies and theories in development economics since the 1950’s. It shows the reasons of their decline at the beginning of the 1980’s and situates the approach of the popular economy which emerges in Latin ...
Isabelle Hillenkamp
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A Journey Through the Theory of Economic Development
The theory of development economics changed signifcantly from the first attempts of defining the concepts in the 50s until nowadays. The contributions to the development theory are at the same time closely related to the historical context of the ...
Lavinia Sidonia Delcea
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: The structure of multilateral financial partnerships has many relationship challenges, which need to be solved to positively impact sustainable human development.
Jacqueline D. Ifield, Chia-Han Yang
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Development Economics and the issues of poverty and social inequalities
Development economics emerged as a separate discipline of economic science in the 1950s but it wasn’t until the 1960s and mid-1970s that it began to draw serious attention.
Ryszard Piasecki
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Economic Development and Development Economics (Presidential Address)
To state that development economics is about economic development is now considered beyond debate. But opinions differ about what constitutes economic development and its proper index; in particular whether the growth of per capita income adequately captures its flavour. Thus, instead of being regarded, a La Lewis, as just a
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Objective We estimated the real‐world cost‐effectiveness of a standardized education and exercise therapy program (GLA:D) compared to usual care (UC) for people managing hip and/or knee osteoarthritis (HKOA). Methods We used a prospective matched cohort design to recruit people (aged >45 years) diagnosed with HKOA who used GLA:D or UC (not on a ...
Darren R. Mazzei+4 more
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