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Microcredit, the corporatization of nongovernmental organizations, and academic activism: The example of Professor Anu Muhammad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Based on an interview with academic-activist Professor Anu Muhammad, this edited transcript illuminates the corporatization of nongovernmental organizations, with specific reference to perpetuating the negative effects of neoliberal microcredit practices
Ahmed Q. K.   +25 more
core   +1 more source

El microcrédito como herramienta de empoderamiento. El caso de las mujeres transformadoras de pescado del barrio de Guet N'dar, Senegal

open access: yesRevista Atlántida, 2013
Las microfinanzas pueden ayudar a transformar las relaciones de poder y contribuir al empoderamiento de las personas pobres. Éstas, que con frecuencia suelen estar desempleadas o trabajando en el sector informal, pueden emprender con la ayuda de los ...
Soledad Gutiérrez Pastor
doaj   +2 more sources

UBURYO: open source software for managing microcredits in education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
One of the major problems in developing countries is minority access to higher education. Traditional scholarships usually focus on paying tuition fees for bringing brilliant students to developed countries (from where they seldom return).
Muñoz Hernandez, Susana   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Microfinance, an Alternative for Financing Entrepreneurship: Implications and Trends-Bibliometric Analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Financial Studies, 2023
Microfinance has become one of the most important financing alternatives for business start-ups, especially for vulnerable groups in poor regions. Microfinance provides access to financial products, especially to people who have been excluded from the ...
Katherine Coronel-Pangol   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analyzing the Challenges of Agricultural Crop Insurance among Microcredits: A Case Study of Sarjam Dehestan, Mashhad [PDF]

open access: yesکاوش‌های جغرافیایی مناطق بیابانی, 2019
The natural, social, economic and personal risks of agricultural production are inevitable, but those risks are manageable. To manage the risks of natural disasters and incidents, producers and economic policymakers in different societies use different ...
Maryam Ghasemi, Lida Alizadeh
doaj   +1 more source

The Dogma of Development: Saudi Aid in Transition

open access: yesRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Notions of development, capacity building and empowerment dominate the Saudi aid landscape today just as much as they dominate the landscape of aid worldwide.
Nora Derbal
doaj   +1 more source

El financiamiento a las microempresas en el Distrito Federal. Una aplicación del modelo FOCO*

open access: yesFaedpyme International Review, 2015
This paper presents the evaluation results of a Public Program (PP) in Mexico City (Mexico) that grants microcredits for strengthening microenterprises and promoting self-employment.
Verónica Patricia Rodríguez Vázquez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment on the Impact of Microcredit Provided by Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation on Population Sustainment in Rural Areas (Case study: Khomein County) [PDF]

open access: yesFaslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2017
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of microcredit provided by Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (IKRF) on preventing rural outflow migrations. This study is an applied research, its methodology is descriptive-analitical and the instrument used
Yousef Ghanbari, Raziyeh Nouri
doaj   +1 more source

Youth Entrepreneurship, Credit Access and Post‐Disaster Business Recovery: Evidence From Informal Food Enterprises in Ghana

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how access to finance (credit access) influences business recovery and entrepreneurial performance among youth‐led informal food enterprises in Ghana, with implications for financial inclusion, entrepreneurial ability and post‐crisis business resilience in developing economies.
Bernard Kwamena Cobbina Essel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Las Microfinanzas como Instrumento de Apoyo al Sector Microempresarial en Chile: Estado y Desafíos

open access: yesJournal of Technology Management & Innovation, 2013
The paper analyzes the microfinance sector in Chile: its origins, evolution and actual condition. The results showthat microfinance is a relatively new activity in the country whichinvolves both, Profit and Non Profit Organitations, all of them supported
Paulina Sanhueza
doaj   +1 more source

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