Alternative frameworks for providing financial services [PDF]
Drawing on country experience, the authors analyze alternative frameworks for providing financial services. Scope of permissible activities: The integrated banking model (commercial banking fully integrated with other financial services, including ...
Claessens, Stijn, Klingebiel, Daniela
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SI‐bioATRP in Mesoporous Silica for Size‐Exclusion Driven Local Polymer Placement
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.An enzyme‐catalyzed surface‐initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI‐bioATRP) of an anionic monomer within mesoporous silica particles, using hemoglobin as a catalyst, allows for controlling the location of the formed polymer via size‐exclusion effects between the nanopores and the biomacromolecules, thereby opening routes to functional ...
Oleksandr Wondra +8 more
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Financial services used by small businesses: evidence from the 1998 survey of small business finances [PDF]
Using newly available data from the 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances, this article offers preliminary findings regarding the characteristics of small businesses in the United States and their use of credit and other financial services.
Alicia M. Robb +2 more
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Atomic‐Scale Light Coupling Control in Ultrathin Photonic Membranes
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Ultrathin photonic nanomembranes provide atomic‐scale control over the coupling between incident light and high‐Q photonic modes, enabling angstrom‐level resonance tuning and strong field confinement. When integrated with TMD monolayers, they further yield enhanced light–matter interactions, offering a versatile platform for advancing quantum photonics,
Chih‐Zong Deng +8 more
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Unbanked by Choice: A Look at How Low-Income Los Angeles Households Manage the Money They Earn [PDF]
, 2010 Compares the financial behavior of low-income households using bank accounts, alternative financial services, and cash only; outcomes in terms of savings; and factors behind their choices.
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Dynamic Bonds Enable Repair and Reprocessing of Glycol‐Modified PET
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Dynamic hindered urea bonds enable rapid healing in glycol‐modified PET‐based polyurethanes. Tuning the hindered‐amine content allows these polymers to balance mechanical integrity with fast repair, achieving complete scratch disappearance in 30 s at 130°C.
Chaninya Mak‐iad +3 more
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Acta CommerciiOrientation: Supplier involvement has been found to influence firm performance with information sharing and e-procurement identified as aspects that are fundamental to its efficacy.
Teboho M. Mofokeng
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Digital financial services for health in support of universal health coverage: qualitative programmatic case studies from Kenya and Rwanda. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv Res, 2023 Wilson DR +3 more
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Financial structures and economic development [PDF]
The author constructs a model that captures the two-way nature of the relationship between financial and economic development - and allows societies at different levels of economic development and with different policies to choose different financial ...
Levine, Ross
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Fighting Poverty, Profitably: Transforming the Economics of Payments to Build Sustainable, Inclusive Financial Systems [PDF]
, 2013 The Gates Foundation's Financial Services for the Poor program (FSP) believes that effective financial services are paramount in the fight against poverty. Nonetheless, today more than 2 billion people live outside the formal financial sector. Increasing
Jason Lamb, Megan Oxmen, Rodger Voorhies
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