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PLoS ONE, 2022 Microfinance Institutions provide financial services to low-income clients and the poor who are excluded from formal financial institutions. Hence, the sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs) remains essential.
Amidou Ayinla Akangbe Fadikpe +5 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How important is structural transformation for poverty reduction in the region of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development? The novelty of the study lies in examining the relationship between structural transformation and poverty in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region using a sectoral analysis with a focus on ...
Freeman Munisi Mateko +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smart city initiatives aim for sustainability and inclusiveness, but recent evidence shows that they often lead to injustices. Although this contradiction has received growing academic attention, a comprehensive understanding of how justice is addressed within smart city practices remains limited.
Md. Nazmul Haque +5 more
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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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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change affects all individuals, regardless of wealth, social class, or religious background, though its impacts and adaptation strategies vary. While existing literature examines climate change adaptation based on farming categories, geographic regions, and cropping systems, limited research explores how social class shapes adaptation ...
Nasir Abbas Khan +2 more
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Fund performance—flow relationship for microfinance mutual funds
Quantitative Finance and EconomicsMutual funds could contribute to sustainable development by investing in microfinance institutions that provide microloans to microfirms with difficulties accessing financial services, such as loans, savings, and insurance from traditional banks.
Carmen-Pilar Martí-Ballester +1 more
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Unlocking Financial Inclusion: The Dynamics of Bank Account Ownership in Urban Slums
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Financial inclusion is a key driver of sustainable development, contributing to poverty reduction (SDG 1), gender equality (SDG 5), and reduced inequalities (SDG 10). Despite extensive financial‐inclusion policies in India, residents of urban slums remain largely excluded from formal banking systems.
Davide Moro +3 more
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Microfinance Facility for Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis
Agriculture, 2020 Since 1990, microfinance has gained universal recognition as an essential and useful tool to address the economically productive poor and provide them with a way to come out of the vicious circle of poverty, by delivering loans and credit on flexible ...
Touseef Ahmed Khan +4 more
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.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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Determinants of Financial Sustainability in Microfinance Institutions: A Panel Data Study [PDF]
Financial Markets, Institutions and RisksMicrofinance institutions have been used as a catalyst tool for increasing the welfare of poor people and fostering economic growth in many regions globally, including Nepal, since the decade of the 70s.
Gyan Mani Adhikari +3 more
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