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How Program‐ and Community‐Led Design Settings Affect Resilience Approaches to Sustainable Development Projects

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Development interventions must deal with rapid and novel changes affecting complex social‐ecological systems, calling for design based on a resilience approach. However, limited analytical attention has been paid to the design settings in which such approaches are deployed.
Yiheyis Maru, Deborah O'Connell, Nicola Grigg, Annette Cowie, Million Belay, Alice Ruhweza, Mark Stafford Smith   +6 more
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Islamic Microfinance as a Tool for Financial Inclusion: A Comparative Analysis with Conventional Microfinance

Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies
Purpose: Microfinance has played a substantial role in providing financial facilities to marginalized populations, particularly in emerging countries, by offering credit, savings, and insurance to individuals who don’t have access to traditional banking
Mehwish Malik
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THE MICROFINANCE INDUSTRY [PDF]

Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2017
In this paper the microfinance industry will be described, both as it is today and with historical perspectives. Brief history of past failure of subsidized loans is mentioned.
Gudjonsson Sigurdur
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Women Microfinance Services Uptake and Patriarchal Setbacks: Lessons from Kalali Savings and Credit Co-operative Society in Hai District, Tanzania [PDF]

Journal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023
This study determined the influence of socio-demographic characteristics on women microfinance services uptake and establish whether women access to microfinance services has challenged the prevailing patriarchal system in Hai District, Kilimanjaro ...
Luka S. Njau
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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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FinTech and Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From Brazil

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamic interplay between economic growth and environmental sustainability from a FinTech perspective, using Brazil as a case study. While FinTech's contribution to green transformation, sustainable finance, and resource efficiency has gained increasing attention, a notable lack of empirical research remains to assess ...
Kemal Eyuboglu, Umut Uzar
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming barriers? The mixed results of social innovation accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs

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
wiley   +1 more source

Factors influencing Sudanese microfinance intention to adopt mobile banking

Cogent Business & Management, 2016
Access to financial service has become a key phenomenon for economic development and poverty alleviation .Microfinance is one way of fighting poverty in Sudan, where most citizens are in need of it. However, despite the initial results showing a positive
Anwar Ammar, Elsadig Musa Ahmed
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Gender‐Sensitive Resilience in Kyrgyz Households: Latent Profile and Cross‐Lagged Dynamic Panel Approaches

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Resilience is still conceptualised as gender‐neutral in research and policy discussions. However, a gendered resilience framework suggests that gender roles and intra‐household dynamics are intricately linked with household resilience. This manuscript aims to analyse the effect of gender role attitudes on climate change resilience.
Bekhzod Egamberdiev, Lena Kuhn, Ihtiyor Bobojonov, Thomas Glauben   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Role Of Savings and Credit Co-Operative Societies on Women Socio-Economic Empowerment: A Case of Brac Microfinance Institution in Moshi Municipality, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania [PDF]

Journal of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023
This study examined the role of Microfinance Institution on women socio-economic empowerment in Moshi Municipality, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. Specifically, the study determined, factors influencing women access to BRAC microfinance services, the ...
Prosper John Kimaro*
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