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Crisis, Development and Gender [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A very important element of the actual crisis is the break of the development economic model. Undoubtedly, the creation of a new economic paradigm to the economic crisis it has to go along with gender to achieve a sustainable and equitable development.
Girón, Alicia
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Crisis in Nicaraguan Microfinance: Between the Scylla of Business for Profit and the Charybdis of Clientelism [PDF]

open access: yes
From the being a poster child of microfinance development, Nicaragua became one of the nightmares for the industry. The negative influence on the countries' repayment culture of the Non-Payment Movement, ambiguously related to the new Sandinista ...
Bastiaensen, Johan, Marchetti, Peter
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The feasibility of applying the Indian model of empowering dalits to Roma communities in Central and Eastern Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The paper explores the socio-economic similarities between two marginalized communities: scheduled castes and nomadic tribes in India and the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and focuses on the transferability of the ‘affirmative action’ model of
Mishra, Malay
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Institutional forms of social innovation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper offers a critique of the contemporary institutional discourses in social innovation theory and practice. It synthesises these discussions into the assumptions of replicability, durability and resistance of socially innovative actions and ...
Mehmood, Abid
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Preserving Indigenous Paradigms in an Age of Globalization: Pragmatic Strategies for the Development of Clinical Legal Aid in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This Essay uses the experiences of international efforts to promote clinical legal aid in China to explore one such unexpected consequence of globalization: international assistance\u27s understandable focus on more familiar kinds of legal aid ...
Dowdle, Michael William
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Value Through Diversity: Microfinance and Islamic Finance and Global Banking [PDF]

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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.
Nicoletta Ferro
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Perceptions of Empowerment : A Minor Field Study of the Concept Discrepancy between the Dominating Development Discourse and the Reality of Women in Microcredit Groups

open access: yes, 2006
The majority of the poor people in the world today are women. Women are not only more poor men, but also more vulnerable to the effects of poverty. The positive benefits of development do not reach women in equal measures to men, and the proportion of women among the poor is constantly increasing.
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