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Resilience and vulnerabilities of urban food environments in the Asia‐Pacific region

open access: yesMaternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2026.
This paper highlights the dynamic changes in urban food environments in the Asia Pacific. Whilst modern retail food outlets are increasing, wet markets and informal food outlets, including street foods, continue to play an important role in nutrition and food security.
Emily Rousham   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microfinance

open access: yes, 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Development, Validity and Reliability of Perceived Service Quality in Retail Banking and its Relationship With Perceived Value and Customer Satisfaction [PDF]

open access: yes
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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Can Complementary Currencies Foster Sustainability? A Systematic Review of the Impacts of Environmental Complementary Currencies

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 549-581, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Growing financial needs for a sustainable transition have led to the development of green finance and citizen‐led monetary innovations. These initiatives recognized the necessity of developing new forms of money regarding the environmental crisis, referred to as environmental complementary currency (ECCs).
Léo Revelli
wiley   +1 more source

Quantile Insights Into Sustainability: Financial Inclusion, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Damage in EAGLE Countries

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 48-62, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how financial inclusion affects the ecological footprint of EAGLE nations (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey). In the process, novel panel data approaches are used to study the years between 2004 and 2022.
Sercan Aydin, Mehmet Akif Destek
wiley   +1 more source

A Scoring Model of the Risk of Costly Arrears at a Microfinance Lender in Bolivia [PDF]

open access: yes
Can scoring models help microfinance lenders in poor countries as much as they have helped credit-card lenders in rich countries? I model the probability that loans from a microlender in Bolivia had arrears of 15 days or more.
Mark Schreiner
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