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Fostering refugees' entrepreneurial instincts: Lessons from the past, learning for the future
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The ongoing global crises have sparked academic discussions on immigration, recognizing it as a key factor in socio‐economic advancement. Immigration is viewed as an essential element of human capital, capable of addressing labor and skill shortages in developed nations.
Gagan Deep Sharma +4 more
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An Impact Analysis of Microfinance in Bosnia and Herzegovina [PDF]
This paper applies the financing constraint approach to study whether microfinance institutions improved access to credit for microenterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Valentina Hartarska, Denis Nadolnyak
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Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical perspective, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements.
Karlan, Dean +3 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines trust in women's organizations as a gendered and contextually embedded dimension of institutional trust, drawing on data from 90,192 respondents across 60 countries using the 2017–2022 World Values Survey, the World Bank, and Varieties of Democracy.
Ruby Amanda Oboro‐Offerie
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Managing Microfinance Risks: Some Observations and Suggestions [PDF]
Risk is an integral part of financial intermediation. Hence, risk management must be at the heart of finance. However, it is disturbing to note that systematic risk management is still not as widespread as it should be in the microfinance industry ...
Nimal Fernando
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APEX ORGANIZATIONS AND THE GROWTH OF MICROFINANCE IN BOLIVIA [PDF]
Bolivia has the most advanced microfinance sector in Latin America and has been a model worldwide. Apex banks banks that lend to banks have not been responsible for this success.
Navajas, Sergio, Schreiner, Mark
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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline
International Economic Review, EarlyView.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
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Microfinance meets the market [PDF]
Microfinance institutions have proved the possibility of providing reliable banking services to poor customers. Their second aim is to do so in a commercially-viable way.
Morduch, Jonathan +2 more
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International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the complexity of interorganizational relationships in social entrepreneurship. Although existing research has deepened our understanding of collaboration, there remains a need to examine the broader range of relationships social entrepreneurs navigate in practice. To address this issue, we adopt an ecosystem perspective,
Wiebke Heinze, Jarrod Ormiston
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the decade since the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) released a position statement on Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults, we have seen significant progress toward achieving equal health and civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and more (LGBTQI+) individuals.
Carl H. Burton +13 more
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