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Unlocking Financial Inclusion: The Dynamics of Bank Account Ownership in Urban Slums
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Financial inclusion is a key driver of sustainable development, contributing to poverty reduction (SDG 1), gender equality (SDG 5), and reduced inequalities (SDG 10). Despite extensive financial‐inclusion policies in India, residents of urban slums remain largely excluded from formal banking systems.
Davide Moro +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As global conservation efforts intensify, balancing environmental protection with social sustainability has become increasingly urgent. This study employs a comparative case study approach to examine two natural resource management interventions in northern Benin: one led by African Parks in an insecure zone, and another by TMG Research in a ...
Ramoudane Orou Sannou +1 more
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Impact of microcredit on the performance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Yemen
Cogent Economics & FinanceThis study examines the impact of microcredit on the performance of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in Yemen, focusing on the mediating role of beneficiary satisfaction.
Osamah Ahmed AL-Maamari +2 more
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When Small is Big: Microcredit and Economic Development [PDF]
Technology Innovation Management Review, 2010 Microcredit - the extension of small loans - gives people who would otherwise not have access to credit the opportunity to begin or expand businesses or to pursue job-specific training. These borrowers lack the income, credit history, assets, or security
George Brown
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Fair Markets and Resilient Supply Chains: Designing Sustainable Intermediation for Rural Communities
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agriculture in Ecuador's communes faces significant economic, social, and environmental challenges, intensified by supply chains dominated by traditional intermediaries. The lack of context‐specific sustainability studies further increases the vulnerability of smallholders.
Jacqueline del Rocío Bacilio Bejeguen +3 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2019 Microcredit programs are increasingly popular interventions aimed at enabling women's economic empowerment in low- and middle-income countries. Resultant improved income, and social support from co-members of microcredit programs, may lead to increased ...
Nabamallika Dehingia +3 more
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Agriculture & Food Security, 2021 Background Lack of access to credit precludes smallholder farmers from making investment that generates greater level of income, consumption and wealth.
Amanuel Berhanu +4 more
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Microcredit and the Financial Frontiers of Racial Neoliberalism
Journal of Law and Political Economy, 2022 Over the past decades of neoliberal globalization, microcredit has been a widely supported project that claims to address global poverty, inequality, and uneven development through debt-based solutions involving small interest-bearing loans that can be ...
Gil Gott
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The Dynamic Impact of the Energy Transition on Food Security in Developing Countries
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the context of persistent food insecurity and the global push for the transition toward clean energy in developing countries, understanding the association between clean energy access and food affordability is increasingly important to inform multisectoral policy interventions. Against this background, this study explores the dynamic impact
Boris D. Soh Wenda +5 more
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THE CURRENT SITUATION AND TRENDS OF NON-BANK MICROCREDITING IN UKRAINE
Aktualʹnì Problemi Rozvitku Ekonomìki Regìonu, 2019 Research objective: Identify problems and substantiate ways to develop the non-bank microcredit market in Ukraine. The set of methods of scientific knowledge, including methods of scientific abstraction and logical-dialectical (in the study of the ...
O. Shuplat
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