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Pathways for Contesting Gender Norms in Rural Development: A Case Study in Colombia

open access: yesRural Sociology, Volume 91, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The Fifth Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality remains distant in rural areas of low‐and middle‐income countries, where restrictive gender norms persist. While empowerment is promoted as a means of transforming these norms, little is known about how such transformations unfold or about the unintended negative consequences they may ...
Maria Alejandra García   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microcredits: development and current practice

open access: yes, 2009
The thesis focuses on the origin and development of microcredits. In the first chapter, origin of the microcredit as a new bank product in Bangladesh is described.
Pátková, Julie
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Microcredits as an engine for agricultural development: The before and after in the sustainability of family units

open access: yes, 2023
La presente investigación analiza dos períodos de tiempo para conocer el impacto de los microcréditos agrícolas y su contribución a la sustentabilidad de las unidades familiares productivas.
Pabón Garcés, Galo Jacinto   +2 more
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Ecological–Economic Trade‐Offs of Alternative Fishing Gears in Indonesia's Blue Swimming Crab (Portunus pelagicus) Fishery

open access: yesAquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Although policies for the blue swimming crab (BSC) fishery have been implemented in Indonesia, the availability of this resource remains uncertain. This paper examines the technical and socio‐economic factors influencing BSC production, which were determined from trip data collected during the outings of 282 fishers using gillnets and crab ...
Rizki Aprilian Wijaya   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’OCTROI DES MICROCREDITS EN CÔTE D’IVOIRE: LE DEFI DE LA CONFIANCE ENTRE PRÊTEURS ET EMPRUNTEURS DANS UN CONTEXTE DE FRAGILITE POLITIQUE ET ECONOMIQUE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article shows that the scarcity of loans in the post-conflict context in Côte d’Ivoire is linked to the fall of the level of trust between the Institutions of Micro-finance and the borrowers.
Parfait, N’goran Koffi   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Market Systems Integration in Zambia's Aquaculture Sector: A Scoping Review of Value Chains, Supply Chains and Sustainability Challenges

open access: yesAquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Aquaculture is increasingly important to food security, nutrition, livelihoods and economic development in Zambia, yet sectoral growth depends on more than production capacity. This scoping review synthesised evidence on Zambia's aquaculture market systems, focusing on value chains, supply chains and persistent evidence gaps.
Enock Siankwilimba   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital innovation in electoral campaigns: the case of microcredit in Podemos

open access: yes, 2023
Crowdfunding and micro-donations for funding political campaigns have been extensively studied, especially in the US. However, digital participatory financing in Europe, with a different regulatory context and relevant public funding, has been ...
Jerez Novara, Ariel Ernesto   +7 more
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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

How Does Vulnerability Framing by Microfinance Institutions Leverage Funding Success in Crowdfunding?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 4816-4840, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama   +3 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

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