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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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Do Women Make Better Borrowers and Loan Officers? Evidence From Afghanistan
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how gender is associated with microfinance loan performance in Afghanistan, a conservative and conflict‐affected society. We use data from over 9500 borrowers across Taliban‐ and government‐controlled areas for the period from January 2017 to February 2020, before the 2021 Taliban takeover.
Mustafa Disli +2 more
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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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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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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
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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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The Mediating Role of Digital Market and Payment Systems in ICT‐Based Food Security Management
eFood, Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2026.ICT enhances food security management in Bangladesh by linking production, distribution, and digital market systems. Digital Market and Payment (DMP) mediates the relationship between Food Production and Distribution (FPD) and Food Security Management (FSM), highlighting the transformative role of digital innovation in sustainable food governance ...
Mohammad Helal Hossain +3 more
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A landscape framework for human‐elephant coexistence
Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 8, August 2026.The landscape coexistence framework is a transferable structure based on three phases: building knowledge, constructing the framework, and collaborative planning. These phases guide the achievements of three goals: supporting elephants, supporting villagers, and differentiating their respective territories.
Hervé R. Memiaghe +4 more
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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline
International Economic Review, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 893-913, August 2026.ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
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Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 3, August 2026.Development interventions, specifically rural financial services, seek to bring positive changes in traditional rural agrarian contexts. However, short‐sighted interventions can cause long‐term societal, environmental, and economic challenges. Drawing insights from long‐term ethnographic research on the social and economic implications of rural ...
Saleh Ahmed, Elizabeth Marie Eklund
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