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Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi [PDF]
This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this paper aims to ...
Gautam Hararika, Sudipta Sarangi
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Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2026.In this study, we predicted BNPL loan defaults by introducing two new variables related to the use of digital banking platforms and assessing their impact. We compared ensemble learning models in combination with data balancing methods and logistic regression (for feature selection).
Parivash Khalili +3 more
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Research In International Business and Finance, 2023 A. Blanco-Oliver +2 more
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Microfinance’s Impact on Education, Poverty, and Empowerment: A Case Study from the Bolivian Altiplano [PDF]
This study explores the impact of microcredit on economic, educational, and empowerment levels of women from the Bolivian high plains who had acquired microcredit for over three years.
Sarah Gibb
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Journal of Food Process Engineering, Volume 49, Issue 2, February 2026.This scoping review (2020–2025) compiles validated evidence on the antioxidant potential of unconventional edible plants (PANCs). Thirty species showed high phenolic content and strong radical‐scavenging activity, reinforcing their role as natural antioxidants and sustainable alternatives to synthetic additives within biodiversity‐based food systems ...
Nathália Letícia Hernandez Brito +8 more
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Microfinance and the Decision to Invest in Children’s Education
International Journal of Financial Studies, 2018 Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of credit for income-generating purposes, evidence of its impact on poverty has been mixed.
PV Viswanath
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Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2008 Physics describes four known forces – strong nuclear force, electromagnetism, weak nuclear force and gravitation. The modern holy grail of physics is to link these forces in a single ‘field’ described through the language of mathematics, which is known as the unified field theory or universal theory.
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Bank Provisioning and Microcredit [PDF]
In this paper we develop a banking model to study the traditional credit and the microcredit markets. We suppose a monopolistic traditional bank that specializes in screening potential debtors based in their risk profile and a microcredit bank that focus
Dairo Estrada, Santiago Caicedo
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What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people? [PDF]
, 2011 The concept of microcredit was first introduced in Bangladesh by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. Professor Yunus started Grameen Bank (GB) more than 30 years ago with the aim of reducing poverty by providing small loans to the country’s rural ...
Copestake, James G. +5 more
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Does Microcredit Reach the Poor and Vulnerable? Evidence from Northern Bangladesh [PDF]
Subsidized loans have a history of being diverted to the rich. Yet recently microcredit programs, such as the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, have become popular among donors and governments as a way to channel funds to the poor.
Ashok S. Rai, Giorgio Topa, Sajeda Amin
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