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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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Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s dystopian work of fiction, became a cornerstone of libertarian philosophy and its influence continues as an articulation of contemporary capitalism. In introducing this Special Issue, we revisit its core assumptions and contradictions in order to reimagine capitalism and reflect on the potential of management studies
Rick Delbridge +4 more
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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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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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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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Islamic microfinance: A bibliometric review
Global Finance Journal, 2021 M. Hassan +3 more
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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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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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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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