Sustainable Rural Finance: Policy and Design Issues [PDF]
This Notes outlines the sad experience of the supply-led credit policy and subsidized direct credit programs (DCPs) in the Philippines. Said failure has led to the introduction of a market-oriented financial and credit policy framework thru the emergence
Llanto, Gilberto M.
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Construction Accidents in Spain: Implications for an Aging Workforce. [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2022 Fontaneda I +3 more
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Cote d'Ivoire : private sector dynamics and constraints [PDF]
Private sector assessments provide information and analysis essential to formulating strategies for alleviating constraints on private sector development.
Rueda-Sabater, Enrique, Stone, Andrew
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Learning Economics by Servicing: a Mexican Experience of Service-Learning in Microenterprises [PDF]
This paper presents an experience of a service learning program in underprivileged Microenterprises. An aspect that turns out to be original as compared to other contributions in literature is the explicit assessment of the impact of the program on the ...
Alejandro Mungaray +4 more
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A study exploring procedures used to select and analyse microenterprises for persons with disabilities. [PDF]
PLoS OneMonareng LL, Soeker SM, Naidoo D.
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A framework for regulating microfinance institutions : the experience in Ghana and the Philippines [PDF]
An earlier Policy Research Working Paper (Hennie van Greuning, Joselito Gallardo, and Bikki Randhawa,"A Framework for Regulating Microfinance Institutions,"WPS 2061, February 1999) presented a regulatory framework that identifies thresholds in financial ...
Gallardo, Joselito
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Effects of Interventions to Improve Access to Financial Services for Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Evidence and Gap Map. [PDF]
Campbell Syst RevDela Cruz NAO +5 more
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How can we learn whether firm policies are working in africa ? challenges (and solutions?) for experiments and structural models [PDF]
Firm productivity is low in African countries, prompting governments to try a number of active policies to improve it. Yet despite the millions of dollars spent on these policies, we are far from a situation where we know whether many of them are ...
McKenzie, David
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Determinants of technology adoption in Mexico [PDF]
The author tries to identify the impact of firm-, region-, and industry-specific characteristics on technology adoption by Mexican firms. Cross-sectional and panel data from 1992-99 show that the firms most likely to adopt new technology are large, train
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys
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