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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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Leadership Development for Women with Disabilities: Key Issues and Strategies in Leadership Training and Successful Participation in Microcredit Programs [PDF]
, 1998 [Excerpt] In 1998 Mobility International USA (MIUSA) and the International Disability Exchange and Studies(IDEAS) 2000 Project awarded a fellowship funded by the U.S.
Meenu Sikand
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Poverty alleviation is a critical concern in developing countries. China launched the Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) program and implemented a series of anti‐poverty initiatives, aiming to reduce poverty and enhance the well‐being of rural households.
Shiyu Yan +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Female empowerment and its use in development contexts has histories in coloniality. Gender programs typically imply an individualistic, depoliticized concept. This article examines whether such initiatives can be supportive for empowerment. We apply an embedded qualitative case study of Bean Voyage's program to support female coffee producers
Annelie M. Gütte +3 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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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid the quest for sustainable agriculture, this study explores key ecological and technological factors influencing crop production under climate change. We conduct a comprehensive assessment of temperature, biomass, farmer education, renewable energy devices, greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on rice yields in Granma, Cuba, from ...
Afzal Ahmed Dar +6 more
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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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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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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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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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