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Area, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract Our paper argues that COVID‐19 deepened the translocal precarity of smallholder households, who already had to struggle with volatile commodity production and uncertain labour migration. Through the lens of translocal precarity, it reveals how the pandemic played out within a broader conjuncture of agrarian transformation, defined by ...
Rosa Yi, W. Nathan Green
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Collective housing as a good way to reduce city fragmentation [PDF]
, 2014 Today the study of the fragmentation represents an important occasion to meditate on the city and on the evolution of the relational strategies of settlements.
Bertolino, N, +3 more
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Gentrification, Urban Informality, and Displacement in Bangkok
The Developing Economies, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 71-88, March 2026.ABSTRACT This study analyzes the recent complex dynamics of urban transformation and spatial exclusion affecting the urban lower class. Emerging cities such as Bangkok experience rapid and compressed development in which the characteristics and challenges of both developed and developing cities co‐occur.
Tamaki Endo
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Does Managerial Training have any impact on the performance of MSE Managers? Empirical evidence from Ghana [PDF]
, 2018 Received the best full paper award in the performance management trackAdopting the human capital theory as a lens, this study investigates the impact of managerial training on the performance of the managers of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in ...
Atiase, Victor, Botchie, David
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Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT Urban agriculture (UA) in slums represents a vital yet under‐researched strategy for enhancing food security and community resilience in marginalised urban areas. This systematic review of 104 studies reveals stark contrasts in theoretical approaches: Global North scholarship frames UA through lenses of racial capitalism and gentrification ...
Silva Namalwa, Yan Tan, Jungho Suh
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Microfinance’s Impact on Education, Poverty, and Empowerment: A Case Study from the Bolivian Altiplano [PDF]
This study explores the impact of microcredit on economic, educational, and empowerment levels of women from the Bolivian high plains who had acquired microcredit for over three years.
Sarah Gibb
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Empowering the frailty: dissecting the role of microcredit [PDF]
The present paper seeks to dissect the significance of micro-credit in empowering women. It starts with a brief discussion on the role of micro-credit in poverty alleviation in general, widely acclaimed in contrast to the top-down policies.
Asalatha, B. P. +1 more
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Value Through Diversity: Microfinance and Islamic Finance and Global Banking [PDF]
, 2005 Internet resources, extended media coverage and international organizations reports recently witness the increasing interest of western banks in new models of finance, particularly Islamic finance and microfinance.
Ferro, Nicoletta
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, 2009 A new chapter that examines the relationship between sport and European society. It argues that the discourses of modernisation surrounding the sports industry echo broader political and economic discourses that dominate European thinking on the ...
Blain, Neil, Boyle, Raymond
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Does institutional logic matter in microfinance delivery? An empirical study of microfinance clients [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose: From an institutional theory perspective, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined impact of financial capital (microcredit) and human capital development (entrepreneurship training) delivered by financial non-governmental ...
Atiase, Victor +2 more
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