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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 +3 more
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Does Microfinance Outreach Indonesian Micro and Small Enterprises?
Indonesian Journal of Business and EntrepreneurshipBackground: Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) played role in Indonesia’s economy. However, Indonesian MSEs still faced various challenges in obtaining external financing.
Dewi Ratna Sjari Martokoesoemo +1 more
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Board diversity and performance of microfinance institutions (MFIS): Evidence from an emerging economy [PDF]
, 2018 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are important service providers of finance for unbanked people and have experienced a high growth over the past decades.
Locke, Stuart, Thrikawala, Sujani
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
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The Effect of Credit Collection Policy on Portfolio at Risk of Microfinance Institutions in Tanzania
Studies in Business and Economics, 2019 This paper presents the results of the study on the effect of credit collection policy on portfolio at risk of microfinance institutions in Tanzania.
Danstun Ngonyani, Harun Mapesa
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
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Developing the Policy and Regulatory Architecture for Microfinance in the Philippines [PDF]
What led to the dynamic growth of the microfinance market in the Philippines? According to Dr. Gilberto Llanto in this Policy Notes, the microfinance market in the country owes its rapid development to a large extent to the emerging policy environment ...
Llanto, Gilberto M.
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Bolivia during the global crisis 1998-2004: towards a ‘macroeconomics of microfinance [PDF]
, 2005 The macroeconomic role of microfinance appears to have varied enormously between country cases, as notably exposed by the recent wave of macro-economic crises.
Marconi, R., Mosley, P.
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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson +4 more
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract Our paper argues that COVID‐19 deepened the translocal precarity of smallholder households, who already had to struggle with volatile commodity production and uncertain labour migration. Through the lens of translocal precarity, it reveals how the pandemic played out within a broader conjuncture of agrarian transformation, defined by ...
Rosa Yi, W. Nathan Green
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