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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
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Ensayos Revista de Economía, 2020 Sustainability of microfinance institutions depends, among other factors, on having appropriate repayment levels. This article's contribution to the existing literature is the analysis of the role of a personality trait named "grit" in individual ...
Sonia Di Giannatale +4 more
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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
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Risk Management: Recent Developments and Issues
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Економічні науки, 2017 The paper considers the issues of recent developments of financial risk management with the emphasis on its characteristic features in Ukraine. The main aspect of the research is the need for adequate risk management of the set of existing risks which ...
Аndriy Kaminskyi
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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 +3 more
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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
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Microfinance’s Impact on Education, Poverty, and Empowerment: A Case Study from the Bolivian Altiplano [PDF]
This study explores the impact of microcredit on economic, educational, and empowerment levels of women from the Bolivian high plains who had acquired microcredit for over three years.
Sarah Gibb
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 644-655, March 2026.ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to analyze the factors that affect the entrepreneurial activity of women in the informal economy in emerging economies, considering their motivations and the challenges they face in this context. The research was conducted through a systematic literature review, accompanied by a bibliographic analysis of the main ...
Rebecca Thaffenne Santos Oliveira +3 more
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The costs of Suaahara II, a complex scaled‐up multisectoral nutrition programme in Nepal
Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2026.Suaahara II, a scaled up multisectoral nutrition programme in Nepal, cost US$132 per programme participant (mother in the 1000‐day period). Opportunity costs of volunteer and participant time are high, accounting for 47% of total costs. Complex multisectoral programmes require significant resources to ensure coordination and support at national and ...
Esther M. Choo +8 more
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Mana, 2009 Pesquisadores da vida social tendem a dividir o mundo em esferas separadas - porém mutuamente "contaminantes" - de transações racionais de mercado e relações sociais pessoalizadas.
Viviana A. Zelizer
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