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The Mediating Role of Digital Market and Payment Systems in ICT‐Based Food Security Management

open access: yeseFood, Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2026.
ICT enhances food security management in Bangladesh by linking production, distribution, and digital market systems. Digital Market and Payment (DMP) mediates the relationship between Food Production and Distribution (FPD) and Food Security Management (FSM), highlighting the transformative role of digital innovation in sustainable food governance ...
Mohammad Helal Hossain   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dualidades perigosas

open access: yesMana, 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
doaj   +1 more source

A landscape framework for human‐elephant coexistence

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 8, August 2026.
The landscape coexistence framework is a transferable structure based on three phases: building knowledge, constructing the framework, and collaborative planning. These phases guide the achievements of three goals: supporting elephants, supporting villagers, and differentiating their respective territories.
Hervé R. Memiaghe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Broadening the Scope of Societal Change Research: Psychological, Cultural, and Political Impacts of Development Aid

open access: yesJournal of Social and Political Psychology, 2013
To date, the study of societal change in social and political psychology has been dominated by an intergroup relations research agenda. But in addition to intergroup dynamics, there are other major pathways to societal change and emancipation, which are ...
Nina Hansen, Tom Postmes
doaj   +1 more source

Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 893-913, August 2026.
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

Empowerment or Dependence? Questioning the Long‐Term Effectiveness of Rural Financial Services in Bangladesh

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 3, August 2026.
Development interventions, specifically rural financial services, seek to bring positive changes in traditional rural agrarian contexts. However, short‐sighted interventions can cause long‐term societal, environmental, and economic challenges. Drawing insights from long‐term ethnographic research on the social and economic implications of rural ...
Saleh Ahmed, Elizabeth Marie Eklund
wiley   +1 more source

Organizational and economic support of small business development in Ukraine

open access: yesПроблеми Законності, 2018
The article describes the economic situation of business development in Ukraine, revealed the factors that create obstacles to private sector development.
Анвер Мурад огли Омаров
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying the Socio- Economic Characteristics of the Iranian Borrowing Households and the Impact of Micro-Credits on the Poverty Gap [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2015
The Impact of micro-credits on household’s poverty gap is considered as one of the most important social and economic issues. In this research, the socio- economic characteristics of the borrowing households are identified by using a Logit model, based ...
Hassan Dargahi, Mohammadreza Mazloumpour
doaj  

Collection management to reduce the uncorrect credit portfolio granted by the National Development Bank, Ecuador

open access: yesAnuario Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, 2018
The objective of the research was to develop a collection management model for the reduction of the uncollectible portfolio generated by the microcredits of the National Development Bank (BNF) in the Bolívar canton of Ecuador.
Frank A. Lemoine-Quintero   +4 more
doaj  

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