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Reputation, Trust and the Logic of Group Lending [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
This paper analyzes the interaction between the success of group lending institutions and the stock of social capital (modeled by the level of trust) in the community where the group lending programs are located. Agents play a finitely repeated “trust game” in parallel with a finitely repeated “microcredit game.” There are two agent types: “regular ...
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Cap‐oPMN: Oral Inflammatory Load Quantification Using Capillary Microfluidics and Automated Image Processing

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quantifying oral polymorphonuclear neutrophils (oPMNs) is a clinically validated approach for assessing periodontal inflammation. However, current methods, such as manual hemocytometry and flow cytometry, are time‐consuming (>3 h), require invasive sampling, and depend on staining and complex instrumentation, making them unsuitable for point ...
Mohsen Hassani, Azam Zare, Fatemeh Soheili, S. M. Mahdi H. Daneshvar, Mahdi Amrollahi Biouki, Yasaman Tahernezhad, Chunxiang Sun, Michael Glogauer, Ebrahim Ghafar‐Zadeh, Amir Sanati‐Nezhad   +9 more
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Theory of Microcrediting in Transitional Economies

Journal of Information and Organizational Sciences, 2009
In the early 1970s, Bangladeshi banker and economist Dr. Muhammad Yunus designed microcrediting – a socially sensitive and rightful system of fighting poverty and high unemployment rates.
Nikola Kadoić, Matija Kopić
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Learning in Lending: The World Bank’s Organisational Learning Journey in Albanian Health Financing Reform Projects, 1994–2022

Central European Journal of Public Policy
Fostering a learning culture is crucial for aid and development organisations to address the complexities and uncertainties in their operating environments. This case study examines the World Bank’s learning processes in lending projects, focusing on the
Druga Ertila
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3D‐Printing Aided Rapid Prototyping of Pretensioned Tensegrity Structures for Robotic Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Printing, injection molding, and assembly (PMA) is a method for rapid prototyping mesoscale, topologically complex, and tensioned tensegrity structures. In combination with PMA method, two mold design strategies: modular mold and compact channel layout, enable efficiency and scalability for tensegrity fabrication.
Yi Sun, Jan Petrš, Omar Aloui, Dario Floreano   +3 more
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AutomataGPT: Transformer‐Based Forecasting and Ruleset Inference for Two‐Dimensional Cellular Automata

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We introduce AutomataGPT, a generative pretrained transformer (GPT) trained on synthetic spatiotemporal data from 2D cellular automata to learn symbolic rules. Demonstrating strong performance on both forward and inverse tasks, AutomataGPT establishes a scalable, domain‐agnostic framework for interpretable modeling, paving the way for future ...
Jaime A. Berkovich, Noah S. David, Markus J. Buehler   +2 more
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Group Versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines [PDF]

This working paper by CGD non-resident fellow Dean Karlan explores whether group liability in lending practices improves lender's overall profitability and the poor's access to financial markets.
Dean Karlan, Xavier Giné
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Client protection principles in the lending process and credit risk of microfinance institutions

International Review of Economics & Finance
This study investigates whether the implementation of client protection principles (CPPs) in microfinance lending reduces the credit risk of microfinance institutions (MFIs).
Shahadat Hossain, Lien Duong, Grantley Taylor, Baban Eulaiwi   +3 more
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Borrower Empowerment and Savings: A Two-stage Micro-finance Scheme [PDF]

We consider group-lending with joint liability where the provision of loans is conditional on prior savings. In a dynamic model with moral hazard and endogenous group-formation, we examine the effect of such schemes on the allocation of loans between ...
Roy Chowdhury, Prabal
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Rapid Remodeling of the Human Gut Microbiome in Response to Short‐Term Animal Product Restriction and Associations with Host Molecular Phenotypes

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A real‐world model of structured animal product restriction practiced for religious reasons reveals the dynamic adaptability of the human gut microbiome to dietary change and uncovers reductions in diversity and rare taxa loss. Integrated microbiome, metabolomic, and proteomic analyses uncover coordinated taxonomic and molecular shifts and identify ...
Christina Emmanouil, Maria Anezaki, Alexandros Simistiras, Stavros Glentis, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Pantelis Hatzis, Konstantinos Rouskas, Antigone S. Dimas   +7 more
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