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Microcredit, a key element of rural economic development: a casestudy
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
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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MICROCREDITS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH INNIGERIA: THE STEPWISE REGRESSION ANALYSIS APPROACH [PDF]
The present study examined the relationship between microcredit allocation and economic growth using the stepwise regression technique. The stepwise regression is used to rank the effects of sectoral microcredits and identify which variables contribute ...
Ikechukwu Samuel, Nnamdi, +2 more
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Physics describes four known forces – strong nuclear force, electromagnetism, weak nuclear force and gravitation. The modern holy grail of physics is to link these forces in a single ‘field’ described through the language of mathematics, which is known as the unified field theory or universal theory.
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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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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Models of pawnshop business in the world practice
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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ABSTRACT In response to the planetary climate crisis, influential scholarship has directed us to decenter the human, recognize nonhuman agency, and imagine more‐than‐human futures. But what might this leave out? Drawing on Indigenous forest worlds in India and the incarcerated intellectual‐activists who struggled alongside them, this article develops a
Alpa Shah
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Impacto social de los programas de microcrédito en las unidades económicas bogotanas fase I [PDF]
Colombian microenterprises today have a different option than the so-called "drop by drop" loans, which have very high interest rates, around 120% E.A.
Cortes Cortes, Jorge Alexander +1 more
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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 +2 more
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