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Investigating the Role of Microcredit on Agricultural Output in Rural-Bangladesh [PDF]
Annals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and ManagementMicrocredit or Microfinance is being considered as one of the investment-sources for local farmers who want to cultivate their land. It is highly difficult for local-farmers to collect fund for field-level investment, these farmers select micro-credit ...
Md. Imrul Hasan +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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Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2014 The main objective of this Campbell systematic review was to provide a systematic review of the evidence on the effects of microcredit on women's control over household spending in developing countries.
Jos Vaessen +10 more
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Il Microcredito istituzionale. Un nuovo ruolo per l’azione pubblica
Cambio, 2022 In a period of repeated economic crises, access to traditional credit channels for those unable to provide personal or capital guarantees has proved particularly complex.
Antonello Podda
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The new merger: combining third sector and market-based approaches to tackling inequalities [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper we discuss the challenge posed by growing inequalities, specifically health inequalities, which have grown increasingly wider in recent decades.
Biosca, Olga +4 more
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi: A Gender Perspective [PDF]
Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to microcredit ...
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb +1 more
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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Much effort, little impact: the politics of public microcredit programs in Malawi
Cogent Social SciencesThis paper contributes to locating the Malawian dynamics into an emerging discourse that argues that current microcredit programs are ineffective because they have become an instrument for serving international and domestic actors’ interests.
Richard Zidana +2 more
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Can Micro Health Insurance Reduce Poverty? Evidence from Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examines the impact of micro health insurance on poverty reduction in rural areas of Bangladesh. The research is based on household level primary data collected from the operating areas of the Grameen Bank during 2006.
Hamid, S.A., Mosley, P., Roberts, J.
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