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Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.Abstract BACKGROUND Salinisation is one of the most pressing environmental challenges affecting agricultural land and food production worldwide. Although the challenge is substantial, saline agriculture represents a promising approach that integrates soil, water and crop management practices tailored to salt‐affected lands, enabling both adaptation to ...
Pim van Tongeren, Katarzyna Negacz
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Impact of competition on microfinance beneficiaries: evidence from India [PDF]
, 2007 India has been implementing Microfinance programmes for the last three decades. The journey from Micro-Credit to Microfinance has been long. Presently formal financial institutions and government and non-government agencies are implementing microfinance ...
Guha, Samapti
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Localization is the process of adapting and developing international aid to suit local contexts. Thus, localization involves paying attention to the relations between organizations and local actors receiving development aid. One key question that has not, as yet, been satisfactorily answered is how to collectively organize localization to ...
Ingrid Mazzilli +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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Crisis in Indian microfinance and a way forward: governance reforms and the Tamil Nadu model [PDF]
, 2011 In recent months, microfinance practitioners worldwide have been holding their breath over events unfolding in India. Beginning in summer 2010 with controversies surrounding the IPO of SKS, a large microfinance institution (MFI) and a major player in the
Marr, Ana, Tubaro, Paola
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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Social Science Research Network, 2019 Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could the small microcredit treatment effects often found for the average household mask important heterogeneity?
A. Banerjee +3 more
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OECD Development Centre Policy Insights, 2006 In order for microfinance institutions to reach more poor people they should become an integral part of the financial sector, and develop as sound domestic intermediaries. They should go commercial, broadening their client basis and scaling up their loans to small enterprises. Will it mean that they will loose their soul?
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The scenario of microfinance in Latin America against the international financial crisis
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2010 Latin America has very good conditions for microfinance; the macroeconomic growth which Latin America had shown in the recent years created favourable conditions for the microfinance institutions' favorable conditions and its development.
Gutierrez Ramirez Enver DALAN +1 more
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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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, 2020 Conventional microfinance institutions (MFIs) can promote financial inclusion, but they also prompt ethical concerns regarding the social consequences of commercialization and high interest rates.
S. Ahmad, R. Lensink, Annika Mueller
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