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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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Microfinance social performance: A global empirical study [PDF]
, 2012 Over the years, microfinance has been purported to have experienced enormous progress and is seen to contribute towards poverty reduction by extending finance to people previously excluded from formal financial markets.
Awaworyi, Sefa, Marr, Ana
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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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Land Degradation &Development, Volume 37, Issue 9, Page 4016-4043, 30 May 2026.ABSTRACT Legislative frameworks that support gender equality are crucial for addressing structural inequalities, protecting women's rights, and achieving gender‐equitable land degradation neutrality (LDN) outcomes. This study examines the extent to which national‐level policies and legislation governing LDN and related sectors incorporate gender ...
Cynthia Nneka Olumba +1 more
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High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh [PDF]
Recently, microfinance has come under increasing criticism raising questions of the validity of iconic studies which have justified the microfinance phenomenon.
Duvendack, Maren, Palmer-Jones, Richard
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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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Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 5, May 2026.Abstract INTRODUCTION Our previous studies demonstrate that htau mice recapitulate many of the neuropsychiatric features of early Alzheimer's disease (AD), and that the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) contains distinct subregions. Herein, we investigate the vulnerability of the centromedial DRN to pathologically phosphorylated tau (p‐tau), a region composed
Louis J. Kolling +8 more
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Islamic microfinance: the challenge of institutional diversity [PDF]
Forays into Islamic microfinance have been few and scattered and of limited outreach. Some have been mandated by the state, but lack popular demand, as in Iran; other have emerged in response to popular demand, but lack regulatory support by the state ...
Seibel, Hans Dieter
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Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT To mitigate gender inequities, governments and organisations implement different types of women's empowerment interventions. One prominent intervention offers women microfinance, taking an independent economic approach to empowerment. This may not always align with local realities in settings that prioritize interdependence such as rural ...
Madeline Langley +2 more
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