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The Business Consortium Fund: working capital for MBEs [PDF]
The New England Minority Purchasing Council offers minority business enterprises (MBEs) help in obtaining short-term working capital.Commercial loans - New England ; Small business - New England ; Minority business enterprises - New ...
Marques Benton
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Operational discipline and microenterprises
The aim of this study is to identify the elements of the operational Discipline in the business of micro-enterprises in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. For the analysis an instrument is designed and applied to 20 companies which fulfill the suggested recommendations in research such as caution in the use of hazardous materials, use of equipment with simple ...
Francisca Rosales Gómez +3 more
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Five criteria for choosing among poverty programs [PDF]
The author addresses the issue of how to choose among discreet poverty interventions such as food stamp programs, public works, or small enterprise credit schemes where little formal policy modeling is done prior to decisionmaking.
Grosh, Margaret E.
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An Organizational Framework for Microenterprises to Face Exogenous Shocks: A Viable System Approach
This study examines how integrating the critical components of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) can improve the adaptability of microenterprises by applying the Viable System Model (VSM).
Denny Suarez Ambriz +2 more
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Bootstrap Dreams: U.S Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform [PDF]
Declines in real wages, increases in the number of poor families, and cutbacks to welfare and other safety-net programs have stimulated the popularity of microenterprise development programs (MDPs).
Jurik, Nancy C.
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Expanding Asset-Building: Opportunities Through Shared Ownership [PDF]
Based on a literature review and interviews, proposes expanding low-income working families' asset-building options beyond individual ownership to shared ownership such as cooperative housing.
Beadsie Woo, Heather McCulloch
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Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya. [PDF]
Brooks W +3 more
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WAYS DONORS CAN HELP THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABLE MICROFINANCE ORGANIZATIONS [PDF]
This paper suggests ways donors can help the evolution of sustainable microfinance organizations. Sustainability is good because it helps MFOs help more poor people than otherwise.
Schreiner, Mark
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Technical Guide for the Analysis of Microenterprise Financial Institutions [PDF]
The purpose of this technical guide is to provide a standard format for the analysis of institutions that provide financial services to the microenterprise sector.
Mark Flaming +2 more
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Using bricolage to facilitate emergent collectives in SMEs [PDF]
Starting a new business is often done in a realm of improvisation if resources are scarce and the business horizon is far from clear. Strategic improvisation occurs when the design of novel activities unite.
Deschoolmeester, Dirk +2 more
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