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Economic Insecurity and Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Victimization. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Prev Med, 2017
Breiding MJ   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Microcredit in Prefamine Ireland

Explorations in Economic History, 1997
Abstract Hundreds of independent, local, quasi-charitable microcredit societies, or “loan funds,” were lending to as many as 20% of Irish households in the mid-19th century. Their goal was to relieve poverty by providing credit to the “industrious poor” at competitive interest rates without public funding.
Aidan Hollis, Arthur Sweetman
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Microcredit Securitization

2013
Microcredit and microfinance can be included in the branch of ethical finance that supports the struggle against poverty and financial exclusion. The term ‘microfinance’ is usually used to identify those financial services that are offered not only to clients with low income or none, but also to individuals who have difficulty in accessing basic ...
MANGO, Fabiomassimo, LA TORRE, Mario
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Microcredit and Crime

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
We document the level, type, and severity of crime in rural Bangladesh. Crime affected 36% of the households. The average cost of crime was worth two weeks' household consumption. We then study how microcredit affects crime. Our theoretical model shows how microcredit may increase cost of crime at the village level while reducing it for borrowers.
Khondker Aktaruzzaman   +2 more
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Microcredit: equilibrium effects

Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Abstract Changes to access to credit can potentially cause changes to the returns to various factors—general equilibrium (GE) effects. This paper considers changes in wages, prices of goods and services, interest rates, and in the returns to forming or maintaining social ties. Such GE effects can lead to positive and/or negative indirect
Aanchal Bagga, Cynthia Kinnan
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