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Youth Entrepreneurship, Credit Access and Post‐Disaster Business Recovery: Evidence From Informal Food Enterprises in Ghana

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how access to finance (credit access) influences business recovery and entrepreneurial performance among youth‐led informal food enterprises in Ghana, with implications for financial inclusion, entrepreneurial ability and post‐crisis business resilience in developing economies.
Bernard Kwamena Cobbina Essel, Ebenezer Donkor, Ayat Ullah, Faizal Adams, Miroslava Bavorova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Marriage Markets Influence the Divorce Hazard? [PDF]

This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the ...
Raphaela Hyee
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Social and family constructions of marital endogamy in 19th Century Eastern Belgium [PDF]

, 2008
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NEVEN, M, ORIS, M, Van de Putte, Bart
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Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern Africa: The limitations of targeting policies [PDF]

, 2013
This paper is based on a study with rural young people in Malawi and Lesotho, focusing on their possibilities for accessing (self)employment in the face of the various constraints imposed by their poor rural situations.
Ansell, N, Hajdu, F, Robson, E, Van Blerk, L   +3 more
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Does Mobile Money Adoption Improve Dietary Quality? Assessing Household and Individual Level Impacts in Cameroon

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mobile money—a digital financial service—has proliferated in many developing countries. Owing to its ability to reduce transaction costs and allow even the poor to be financially included, it has been widely adopted. While a growing body of literature has examined its welfare effects, its effects on diet quality of households and individuals ...
Francis E. Ndip, Perez L. Kemeni Kambiet   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Secondary schooling and rural youth transitions in Lesotho and Zimbabwe [PDF]

, 2004
Based on case studies centred on two rural secondary schools in Lesotho and Zimbabwe, this paper examines the gendered impacts of schooling on young people’s transitions to adulthood.
Batezat, E., Beck, U., Dawson, D., Dore, R., Ferguson, J., Gay, J., Gay, J., Giddens, A., Gill, D., Gordon, R., Gwaunza, E. C., Jones, G., Matindike, G., Ministry of Education, Mohale, M., Monaheng, T., Nicola Ansell, Psacharopoulos, G., Vukasin, H. L., Zimbabwe School Examinations Council   +19 more
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Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola, Mustafa Doğan, Warren Eastwood, John Haldon, Alessia Masi, Neil Roberts, Çetin Şenkul, Adam Izdebski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Residential segregation and black-white intermarriage. [PDF]

I use 1980, 1990, and 2000 Census data to show that greater residential segregation is associated with a lower probability that black men, black women, white men, and white women are in black-white marriages.
Finn Christensen
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Intermarriage and immigrant employment: the role of networks [PDF]

, 2009
The social integration of immigrants is believed to be an important determinant of immigrants’ labor market outcomes. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, we examine how and why marriage to a native, one measure of social assimilation, affects immigrant ...
Furtado, D., Theodoropoulos, N.
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The dialectics of trauma and political conscientization: A psychosocial study of activism for supporting sexual and gender minoritized communities in Brazil

Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examined the dialectical association between psychosocial trauma and political conscientization in the lives of activists advocating for persons with marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities (2SLGBTQIA+) in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Gab C. Siqueira, Luisa F. Velásquez Vallejo, Antonio Euzebios Filho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source