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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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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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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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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract Our paper argues that COVID‐19 deepened the translocal precarity of smallholder households, who already had to struggle with volatile commodity production and uncertain labour migration. Through the lens of translocal precarity, it reveals how the pandemic played out within a broader conjuncture of agrarian transformation, defined by ...
Rosa Yi, W. Nathan Green
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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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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Concerns about the slow progress in gender equality, both globally and within corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, prompt a critical assessment of “gendered CSR,” that is, women's empowerment programs and partnerships driven by the private sector.
Tanja Verena Matheis, Christian Herzig
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Borsa Istanbul ReviewThis 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 +2 more
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Social exclusion and economic growth at the European Union: can social marketing and behavioral economics help us to overcome the problem? [PDF]
, 2017 The problem of poverty and social exclusion is growing nowadays in the European Union context, according to Eurostat (2015 and 2016). And, in spite of the fact that Europe 2020 Strategy is apparently focused on that situation, the perspectives are not ...
Cruz-Morato, Marco Antonio +2 more
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Gentrification, Urban Informality, and Displacement in Bangkok
The Developing Economies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyzes the recent complex dynamics of urban transformation and spatial exclusion affecting the urban lower class. Emerging cities such as Bangkok experience rapid and compressed development in which the characteristics and challenges of both developed and developing cities co‐occur.
Tamaki Endo
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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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