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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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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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Gender and Poverty Reduction in Ghana: The Role of Microfinance Institutions
, 2021 Bibiana Koglinuu Batinge, Hatice Jenkins
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Non‐adherence to tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) among people living with HIV (PLHIV) is a critical issue in Ethiopia and other Sub‐Saharan African countries, where both TB and HIV burdens are high. To reduce TPT non‐adherence among PLHIV, it is crucial to identify those at risk and implement targeted interventions. Therefore,
Edao Sinba Etu +5 more
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Assessing Microfinance: The Bosnia and Herzegovina Case [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.
AnneWelle-Strand +2 more
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Production Gaps Among Farmers With Disabilities Are Associated With Limited Technology
Agricultural Economics, Volume 57, Issue 4, July 2026.ABSTRACT In sub‐Saharan Africa, agriculture is vital; however, the systematic exclusion of persons with disabilities from farming hinders sustainable development and social equity. Although several studies have analyzed productivity differentials across various dimensions of social exclusion, empirical evidence on technology access, farming efficiency,
Francis Tsiboe +2 more
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The weight of institutions on women's capabilities [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to assess the links between institutions and quality of life, within Nussbaum's capability framework approach, exploring a relevant empirical issue: microfinance.
Isabelle Guérin +2 more
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Strategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 6, Page 1576-1639, June 2026.Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurship accelerators are increasingly promoted as structural interventions to close gender gaps, yet studies have not established a differential impact of participation for women. This prior evidence—drawn from high‐tech, male‐dominated settings—may overlook how outcomes differ in more feminized domains such as social
Nilanjana Dutt, Sarah Kaplan
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A Scoring Model of the Risk of Costly Arrears at a Microfinance Lender in Bolivia [PDF]
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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Entrepreneurs Health and Productivity in Nigeria: Analysis of Microfinance Bank Contribution [PDF]
, 2011 This paper investigates the effects of microfinance bank health related services on micro and small enterprise owners’ productivity. Productivity is measured as output value over resource input value.
Babajide, A. A
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