THE COST STRUCTURE OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA [PDF]
, 2006 Microfinance institutions are important, particularly in developing countries, because they expand the frontier of financial intermediation by providing loans to those traditionally excluded from formal financial markets.
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Investment in Young and Established Microenterprises in Russia [PDF]
This paper shows that imperfections in the credit market and insecurity of property rights affect nonuniformly the investment of younger and established microenterprises in Russia. The empirical analysis of investment is based on the liquidity constraint
Hartarska, Valentina M.
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Informal Microenterprises in Senegal
, 2022 This paper explores differences and similarities across formal and informal microenterprises in Senegal. It uses a new national sample of more than 500 firms, of which two-thirds are informal and over 95 percent are micro-size, employing five or fewer full-time employees.
Atiyas, İzak, Dutz, Mark A.
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Lactobacillus rhamnosus Probiotic Food as a Tool for Empowerment Across the Value Chain in Africa
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Perhaps by serendipity, but Lactobacillus rhamnosus has emerged from the 1980s as the most researched probiotic species. The many attributes of the two main probiotic strains of the species, L.
Nieke Westerik +7 more
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Retracted: Innovation Service Platform of Small and Medium-Sized Microenterprises Based on Social Perception and Neural Network Algorithm. [PDF]
Comput Intell Neurosci, 2023 Neuroscience CIA.
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The long term impact of microfinance on income, wages and the sectoral distribution of economic activity [PDF]
, 2003 This paper analyses the long-term effects of improved small-scale lending, often provided by microfinance institutions set up with the support of development aid.
Tschach, Ingo
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AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN PEOPLE AND PLACES: ENDING THE LEGACY OF POVERTY IN THE RURAL SOUTH: DISCUSSION [PDF]
These comments discuss the presentations by Christy, Wenner, and Dassie ("A Microenterprise-Centered Economic Development Strategy for the Rural South: Sustaining Growth with Economic Opportunity") and Freshwater ("What Can Social Scientists Contribute ...
Baharanyi, Ntam +2 more
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Gender differences in access to financing for microenterprises in Morona Canton, Ecuador
TendenciasIntroduction: This article examines gender differences in access to financing for microenterprises in Morona Canton, Ecuador, within the context of social and economic inequalities that impact business development.
Rodolfo Moisés Espinosa Tigre +2 more
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Microenterprises and Multiple Bank Relationships: Evidence from a Survey among Professionals [PDF]
An overview of previous evidence about relationship banking to SMEs shows that multiple banking relationships prevail even at small firms, but there is hardly evidence on the number of banking relationships held by micro firms.
Doris Neuberger, Solvig Räthke
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Eficiencia energética en microempresas de Medellín: un estudio de valoración de barreras
Lecturas de Economía, 2012 The diffusion and penetration of energy efficiency measures have positive impacts on both the competitiveness and the security conditions in which firms operate.
Juan Gabriel Vanegas López +1 more
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