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EconometricsMicrofinance aims to promote financial inclusion among underprivileged individuals, particularly through progressive microcredit, which enables borrowers to access increasing loan amounts over time.
Ahmad Alqatan +5 more
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Taking stock of gendered social networks in organizations and careers: A literature review
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Ample research has explored men's and women's social networks, with the aim to link differences in structural properties of networks and networking behaviors to varying career outcomes. Despite the diverse contexts and methods, representing many aspects and nuances of the role played by gender in organizations, much of contemporary research ...
Sofiya Voytiv +4 more
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Economic Governance and Institutional Design
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should institutions be designed to achieve compliance with behavioral rules, including laws, social norms, religious rules, or cultural traditions? This conceptual paper introduces a typology of economic governance institutions and explains how it can be used both by policy makers, administrators, and researchers in all social sciences to ...
Jens Prüfer
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The challenging dynamics of microcredit in Angola [PDF]
, 2015 Personal characteristics and capacities are important for whether microcredit clients succeed in business. In particular, a client’s education influences business profitability. However, to benefit from group-based microcredit, clients also need to be in
Wiig, Arne, Kolstad, Ivar
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Policy and Political Regime Change in Central America
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Does democracy deliver more inclusive and transparent social policy in low‐capacity states? And how does democratic backsliding reshape social policy? Drawing on a comparative analysis of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, we examine how regime change and political ideology are associated with patterns of social policy access and ...
Juliana Martínez Franzoni +1 more
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Donors' Support for Microcredit as Social Enterprise: A Critial Reappraisal [PDF]
microfinance, microcredit, poverty, microenterprises, donor assistance, aid ...
Nissanke, Machiko
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Pathways for Contesting Gender Norms in Rural Development: A Case Study in Colombia
Rural Sociology, Volume 91, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT The Fifth Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality remains distant in rural areas of low‐and middle‐income countries, where restrictive gender norms persist. While empowerment is promoted as a means of transforming these norms, little is known about how such transformations unfold or about the unintended negative consequences they may ...
Maria Alejandra García +2 more
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Microcredit - A More Credible Social than Economic Program in Bangladesh [PDF]
Calculated under the framework of economic-profit counting, the productivity of microcredit in Bangladesh is found very low. In this survey about 48% of the borrowers had to compromise their normal wages for self-employed labor to be able to pay the high
Rafiqul Islam Molla, Md. Mahmudul Alam
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Financial Inclusion and Child Labour in Ghana
Economic Notes, Volume 55, Issue 3, November 2026.ABSTRACT The financial inclusion‐child labour nexus is one of the least explored research topics despite global attempts to reduce child labour due to its adverse repercussions on the development of children. We contribute to the literature by examining the impact of financial inclusion on child labour using two‐wave panel data from Ghana.
Opoku Adabor, Enock Kojo Ayesu
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Does the Participation in the Microcredit Programs Contribute to the Development of Women Entrepreneurship at the Household Level? Experience from Bangladesh [PDF]
Microcredit, Women Entrepreneurship Development, Bangladesh, Consumer/Household Economics,
Chowdhury, M. Jahangir Alam
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