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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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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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A framework for regulating microfinance institutions : the experience in Ghana and the Philippines [PDF]
An earlier Policy Research Working Paper (Hennie van Greuning, Joselito Gallardo, and Bikki Randhawa,"A Framework for Regulating Microfinance Institutions,"WPS 2061, February 1999) presented a regulatory framework that identifies thresholds in financial ...
Gallardo, Joselito
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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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, 2023 The main objective of the study was to assess the factors affecting the social outreach of microfinance institutions in Ethiopia. The outreach of microfinance was measured in terms of the number of clients served as the breadth of outreach and the socio-economic level of the clients as the depth of outreach. The study was conducted using secondary data
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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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The scope for policy reforms in rural microfinance [PDF]
This brief considers the scope for policy action in seven areas: (1) regulation of microfinance institutions, (2) provision of saving services, (3) product innovation, (4) organizational issues in microfinance, (5) poverty impact of microfinance, (6 ...
Sharma, Manohar
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The long term impact of microfinance on income, wages and the sectoral distribution of economic activity [PDF]
, 2003 This paper analyses the long-term effects of improved small-scale lending, often provided by microfinance institutions set up with the support of development aid.
Tschach, Ingo
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Determinants of the Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Systematic Review
Contemporary Topics in Finance, 2018 Microfinance institutions (MFIs) generally aim at improving the access of the poorto financial services while at the same time being financially sustainable. Butwhat do we know about how MFIs reach and combine these two goals?
N. Hermes, M. Hudon
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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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