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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, Yoshimichi Murakami   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj  

Evaluation de l’impact de l’accès au microcrédit sur le bien être social des ménages bénéficiaires en Tunisie

Academic Finance, 2019
Cette étude est une contribution dans le domaine d’évaluation des effets de la microfinance sur le statut social de ses bénéficiaires. Dans cet article, nous avons choisi d’utiliser l’approche  contrefactuelle qui consiste à comparer l’évolution de la ...
Boudour BZEOUICH
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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
wiley   +1 more source

From Social Data Mining to Forecasting Socio-Economic Crisis

, 2011
Socio-economic data mining has a great potential in terms of gaining a better understanding of problems that our economy and society are facing, such as financial instability, shortages of resources, or conflicts.
A. Barabasi, A. Barabasi, A. Diekmann, A. Halevy, A. Monreale, A. Szalay, A. Vespignani, B. Kluger, B.-C. Chen, B.B. Mandelbrot, B.C. Chen, C. Cattuto, C. Doctorow, C. Lynch, D. Helbing, D. Helbing, D. Helbing, D. Helbing, D. Helbing, D. Helbing, D. Lazer, E. Ostrom, E. Ravenstein, E.F. Fama, E.J. Candes, G. Sugihara, G. Ziegler, G.K. Zipf, I. Foster, Ioannidis P.A. John, J. Danãelsson, J. Krumm, J.H. Fowler, K.P. Smith, L. Molgedey, L. Odling-Smee, M. Atzori, M. Scheffer, M.J. Salganik, M.M. Gaber, N. Eagle, N.A. Christakis, N.A. Christakis, N.A. Christakis, N.F. Johnson, P. Bajaria, R.K. Merton, S. Balietti, S. Nelson, S.E. Asch, S.H. Muggleton, S.V. Buldyrev, W.S. Bainbridge   +52 more
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The Relationship Between the Level of Satisfaction of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Loneliness, Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Elderly Individuals

Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims To examine the relationship between the level of satisfaction of Maslow's hierarchy of needs and loneliness, happiness and life satisfaction in elderly individuals. Design This cross‐sectional, descriptive and correlational study was conducted with the elderly in Turkey.
Eylül Gülnur Erdoğan, Sevinç Mersin
wiley   +1 more source

How do loan officer-borrower gender-driven behavioural differences impact on the microfinance lending market?

Borsa Istanbul Review
This paper analyses the impact of the gender of the loan officer-borrower pair on the loan-size, credit availability and time spent in managing the credit application.
A. Blanco-Oliver, A. Samaniego, M.J. Palacin-Sanchez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Novel Insights for Successful Microcredit Policies and Gender Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Rural Entrepreneurs in Vietnam and Thailand

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access to finance is critical for rural non‐farm self‐employment businesses in Southeast Asia, but financial constraints and gender discrimination impede their growth. Existing literature largely overlooks vulnerable groups like rural household businesses.
Chung Thanh Phan, Diem Thi Hong Vo, Nguyen Nhan Thien, Daniel Borer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Credit market structure and strategic collateral provision

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract In a simple lending model with informational asymmetry, we investigate the effect of bank market structure on the amount of collateral provided by firms. We analyze the strategic decision of a potential entrepreneur regarding the amount of wealth to pledge as collateral to secure a loan.
Rosaria Distefano, Francesco Reito
wiley   +1 more source

Non‐Migrant Women and Their Livelihoods in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh

Climate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 5, Issue 1, June 2026.
This graphical abstract illustrates the Sundarbans social–ecological system and its influence on women's livelihood strategies, particularly migration and non‐migration decisions. It highlights the interaction between ecological (ecosystem services) and social (institutional interventions, governance) subsystems, shaping livelihood capitals (natural ...
Marta Martínez‐Fabiani, Bishawjit Mallick, Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source