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Microcredit program as an alternative source of financing for local development
Cooperativismo y Desarrollo, 2021 The main objective of this article is to propose a microcredit program to stimulate Local Economic Development projects. This definition is based on the preponderant role of local development in Cuba, which has become a public policy of strategic ...
Raysa Capote Pérez +3 more
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Unlocking Financial Inclusion: The Dynamics of Bank Account Ownership in Urban Slums
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Financial inclusion is a key driver of sustainable development, contributing to poverty reduction (SDG 1), gender equality (SDG 5), and reduced inequalities (SDG 10). Despite extensive financial‐inclusion policies in India, residents of urban slums remain largely excluded from formal banking systems.
Davide Moro +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As global conservation efforts intensify, balancing environmental protection with social sustainability has become increasingly urgent. This study employs a comparative case study approach to examine two natural resource management interventions in northern Benin: one led by African Parks in an insecure zone, and another by TMG Research in a ...
Ramoudane Orou Sannou +1 more
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Models of pawnshop business in the world practice
Путеводитель предпринимателя, 2020 In the article are presented the development and regulation problems of pawnshop activity in the crisis conditions. It includes brief description of different pawnshop business models by regions and by countries.
S. V. Kryvoruchko
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Fair Markets and Resilient Supply Chains: Designing Sustainable Intermediation for Rural Communities
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agriculture in Ecuador's communes faces significant economic, social, and environmental challenges, intensified by supply chains dominated by traditional intermediaries. The lack of context‐specific sustainability studies further increases the vulnerability of smallholders.
Jacqueline del Rocío Bacilio Bejeguen +3 more
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What’s so social about Social Return on Investment? A critique of quantitative social accounting approaches drawing on experiences of international microfinance [PDF]
, 2016 Quantitative approaches figure prominently in social accounting and auditing. This is because of the preference among many investors for simple and ostensibly robust and comparative metrics.
Vik, PM
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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Microcredit, a key element of rural economic development: a casestudy
Revista CEA, 2019 Individuals who lack financial education have a hard time starting a business. As they have no access to commercial banking, they turn to friends, family, and moneylenders.
Mario Orozco-Gutierrez
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Imbalances in Regional Development in the Context of Systemic Transformations [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2019 The aim of the article is to study the cause-effect relationship of the imbalances in the socio-economic development of Ukraine’s regions and determine the key measures to overcome the existing imbalances in certain areas, with regard to systemic ...
Perepeliukova Olena V.
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