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Brazil's Public Administration and the Challenge of New Democracies: Promoting Social Inclusion
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Brazil's public administration (PA) has sought to strengthen democratic governance through an emphasis on social inclusion. Since democratization in 1988, reforms have aimed to address entrenched inequalities along with decentralization and professionalism spurring innovations in social inclusion.
Evan M. Berman +7 more
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Future Business JournalPurpose Rural microfinance has become a crucial tool in global poverty alleviation efforts. Research has increasingly highlighted its role not only in combating poverty but also in empowering women and supporting adaptation strategies, particularly in ...
Jesika Ghatode, Gopi Nimbarte
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A Microfinance Promise: To Provide the Poor Access to Finance Services [PDF]
In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microfinance.
Llanto, Gilberto M.
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad +1 more
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Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Access to finance is critical for rural non‐farm self‐employment businesses in Southeast Asia, but financial constraints and gender discrimination impede their growth. Existing literature largely overlooks vulnerable groups like rural household businesses.
Chung Thanh Phan +3 more
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Microfinance tradeoffs : regulation, competition, and financing [PDF]
This paper describes important trade-offs that microfinance practitioners, donors, and regulators navigate. Drawing evidence from large, global surveys of microfinance institutions, the authors find a basic tension between meeting social goals and ...
Cull, Robert +2 more
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The relationship between the performance and legal form of microfinance institutions
, 2022 Ruan Rodrigo Araújo da Costa
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 644-655, March 2026.ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to analyze the factors that affect the entrepreneurial activity of women in the informal economy in emerging economies, considering their motivations and the challenges they face in this context. The research was conducted through a systematic literature review, accompanied by a bibliographic analysis of the main ...
Rebecca Thaffenne Santos Oliveira +3 more
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SAGE Open, 2019 As an effective means in fighting poverty, microfinance experienced an unprecedented growth in many emerging economies followed by stagnation and deep crisis, due to an inherent paradox in the fundamental missions of microfinance industry: serving the ...
Jiguang Wang, Bing Ran
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Consumer Knowledge and Decisions Becoming Customer Islamic Microfinance Institutions
, 2020 Intan Qurratulaini
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