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Context, Culture, and Governance in an Informal Community in Ghana: A Case Study for Community‐Based Adaptation in Public Administration

Public Administration and Development, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 93-103, February 2026.
ABSTRACT In its quest for development, Ghana must address socioeconomic challenges not of its own making, use resources it does not have, and apply externally imposed technocratic knowledge‐based solutions largely incompatible with Ghanaians' lived experience.
Jessica Kritz, Peter F. Haruna
wiley   +1 more source

Quantile Insights Into Sustainability: Financial Inclusion, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Damage in EAGLE Countries

Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 48-62, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how financial inclusion affects the ecological footprint of EAGLE nations (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey). In the process, novel panel data approaches are used to study the years between 2004 and 2022.
Sercan Aydin, Mehmet Akif Destek
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Financial Development on Investments: New Evidence Considering Different Aspects of Financial Development

International Journal of Finance &Economics, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 905-935, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper provides new evidence and insights about the finance‐investment nexus by assessing and comparing the impacts of different aspects of financial development on investment. The study uses data for 88 countries from 1996 to 2019, and the estimates are based on dynamic panel data methodology.
Gabriel Caldas Montes, Vinícius Oliveira   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Having Experience of What to Do to Succeed”: Unsettling Neoliberalism Through the Lived Experiences of Microcredit Trader‐Borrowers in Ibadan

Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Neoliberal market‐oriented approaches to solving social and economic problems defined as “poverty” have received much attention in anthropology and allied disciplines such as sociology and geography and among development studies scholars and practitioners.
Olubukola Olayiwola
wiley   +1 more source

Green finance from the perspective of Islamic social finance: A case study of microfinance practices in Istanbul

Review of Islamic Social Finance and Entrepreneurship
Purpose – This study aims to explore and analyze the integration of green finance principles with Islamic microfinance practices in Istanbul, Turkey. Specifically, it examines how Islamic microfinance institutions incorporate environmental and social ...
Testru Hendra, Seppi Mustion, Karimaturrizky Syukri Nasution, Rana Nurulita Handra   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumer credit in comparative perspective [PDF]

, 2018
We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion.
Aalbers MB, Akos Rona-Tas, Alya Guseva, Andreeva G, Bar-Gill O, Carruthers BG, Casolaro L, Chung RK, Deleuze G, Doneda D, Durst J, Dwyer RE, Evans DS, Fourcade M, Frank R, Guseva A, Guérin I, Harvey D, Hrustič T, Hurley M, Ibragimova D, Jappelli T, Krenn K, Krippner GR, Kuzina O, Laferté G, Lazarus J, Lazzarato M, Lissowska M, Mandell L, Matuszyk A, Miller MJ, Minty S, Niemi J, Olcoń-Kubicka M, Pitluck AZ, Rajan RG, Ramsay I, Rona-Tas A, Rona-Tas A, Rona-Tas A, Schor J, Skiba PM, Spindler G, Stoesz D, Sullivan TA, Veblen T, Wherry FF, World Bank.   +48 more
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Entrepreneurship‐As‐Struggle: The Crises and Politics of Entrepreneurial Becomings

Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship among marginalized people in Bangladesh involves social, political, and cultural struggle against immediate crises of poverty and enduring crises of class, caste, religious, and gendered exclusions. Drawing on 25 months of ethnographic research among entrepreneurs in rural Bangladesh and the life stories of 137 entrepreneurs ...
Grace Mueller, Julia Qermezi Huang, Jacqui Bassett, Paige Chisholm, Hanna Geary   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

CashYaar: Automatic Machine Payment Confirmation Service

The Journal of Engineering, Volume 2026, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
CashYaar is a new payment system that makes mobile financial transactions faster and easier. Customers can quickly pay by scanning a QR (quick response) code, and the system confirms the payment with sound and a display, helping small vendors avoid delays and making payments more secure and reliable.
Yusa Islam, Md. Ataur Rahman, Md. Sadekur Rahman, Mahady Hasan, Md. Tarek Habib   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

MODELLING A SUSTAINABILITY MODEL OF ISLAMIC MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS

Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance, 2019
Islamic microfinance institutions (IMFIs) – such as Baitul Maal wat Tamwil (BMT - with cooperative legal entities), established in Indonesia as part of the shariah-compliant financial industry sector (part of the halal sector) – need to maintain their sustainability in order to encourage poverty alleviation and economic growth. In observing the
Yuli Indah Sari, Widiyanto bin Mislan Cokrohadisumarto   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Islamic microfinance: the challenge of institutional diversity [PDF]

Forays into Islamic microfinance have been few and scattered and of limited outreach. Some have been mandated by the state, but lack popular demand, as in Iran; other have emerged in response to popular demand, but lack regulatory support by the state ...
Seibel, Hans Dieter
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