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Tracking Aspirations: Neoliberal Education and Mobility for Cambodian Youth
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Cambodia, this article focuses on secondary students who aspire to social and spatial mobility. It examines how a subject‐based tracking system intersects with other facets of the educational landscape to stratify students along class lines.
Jennifer Estes
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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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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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, 2019 This encyclopedia entry briefly describes the growing discipline of microfinance development, exploring its history and rationale, alongside some of its challenges and the critiques leveled against it.
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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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SAGE OpenMicrofinance has become an increasingly important instrument in the global battle against poverty. However, its long-term success and the hurdles it faces require further critical examination.
Asmae Lahnech, Mustapha Chami
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Development, Validity and Reliability of Perceived Service Quality in Retail Banking and its Relationship With Perceived Value and Customer Satisfaction [PDF]
Microfinance is often hailed both as a tool for fighting poverty and as a tool for post-conflict reconciliation. This paper explores the use of microfinance in post-civil war Bosnia and Herzegovina, assessing its results in terms of both goals.
Aleksandra Pisnik Korda, Boris Snoj
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Microfinance and the dynamics of financial vulnerability. Lessons from rural South India [PDF]
, 2009 Drawing on data collected in rural South India, and using mainly a comprehensive approach, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of microfinance on the financial vulnerability of its clients.
Guerin, Isabelle +4 more
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A socio-economic study of the borrowing process: The case of microentrepreneurs in Jordan [PDF]
This paper investigates the socio-economic determinants of four stages of borrowing process of the Jordanian microfinance market. The equations and functions corresponding to the stages of the borrowing process are estimated using a sample of 474 ...
Dutta, Dilip, Magableh, Ihab
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Acute poverty alleviation through women’s targeting by microfinance programs [PDF]
The present paper aims to adduce succinctly the reasons and arguments sustaining female-targeting microfinance programs, predominantly because of their capacity of offering an effective and operational tool against poverty.
Dobra, Alexandra
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