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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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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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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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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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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to the planetary climate crisis, influential scholarship has directed us to decenter the human, recognize nonhuman agency, and imagine more‐than‐human futures. But what might this leave out? Drawing on Indigenous forest worlds in India and the incarcerated intellectual‐activists who struggled alongside them, this article develops a
Alpa Shah
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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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Side‐selling in coffee cooperatives: Insights from cooperative and non‐cooperative farmers in Mexico
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates side‐selling in Mexican coffee cooperatives, seeking to answer what drives side‐selling, what drives the expected share side‐sold and what non‐cooperative farmers perceive about side‐selling. Our conceptual framework, a contribution to this literature, proposes that farmers’ economic pressure, coffee quality and ...
Carlos Omar Trejo‑Pech +1 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsIntroductionThe adverse impacts of natural disaster shocks threaten the sustainable development of agricultural production and exacerbate the risk of rural households returning to poverty.
Yun Yu, Fang Wang, Guanyu Qin, Tao Li
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract During the high and late Middle Ages, the European economy witnessed the emergence and substantial growth of capital markets, a phenomenon connected to urbanization and pestilence, both of which brought profound changes to the social, legal, and economic positions of women.
Anna Molnár
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Can microcredit worsen poverty? Cases of exacerbated poverty in Bangladesh
, 2011 Worldwide, microcredit has been recognised as a successful innovation in poverty alleviation. However, some claim that microcredit exacerbates poverty in developing countries.
Khan, M.Adil +9 more
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