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Lending to Agribusinesses in Zambia [PDF]
Microfinance has been celebrated in the last decade as a new paradigm shift in lending that has achieved immense success in improving the living standards of the poor through the provision of financial services.
Mukumbuta, Likando +2 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Biodiversity corridors aim to reconnect fragmented habitats and protected areas, yet their impact on landowners varies and requires assessment. In the Central Annamite Landscape, Vietnam, initiatives like Payment for Forest Environment Services (PFES) for watershed protection, forest restoration, and non‐timber forest product development ...
Van Tri Tin Nguyen +4 more
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Building Bridges: Implementing Governance for Sustainability in the Microfinance Banks of Developing Countries [PDF]
Financial Markets, Institutions and RisksThis study delves into the pivotal role of directors of microfinance banks in developing countries in implementing governance practices to ensure sustainability.
Augustin Dachi, Karina Kasztelnik
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The weight of institutions on women's capabilities [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to assess the links between institutions and quality of life, within Nussbaum's capability framework approach, exploring a relevant empirical issue: microfinance.
Isabelle Guérin +2 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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Dynamics of Transnational Labour Migration Revisited from a Crisis Complex Perspective
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article uses the notion of crisis complex to analyse the relationship between labour migration and crisis from an institution‐ and process‐oriented perspective. Such an interrogation is timely, given the increasingly crisis‐prone dynamics shaping global labour systems and migration governance, including recruitment, skills recognition and
Ioana Jipa‐Muşat, Nicola Piper
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The Problems of Correlation in the Financial Risk Management – the Contribution of Microfinance [PDF]
In this paper we first introduce microfinance institutions as an alternative investment instrument. We argue that beside socially responsible features of microfinance, there exists also significant portfolio enhancement opportunity in microfinance ...
Janda, Karel, Svárovská, Barbora
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract During the global economic crisis of 1929–33, deposits in the Dutch commercial banking sector sharply declined as funds shifted to the government‐guaranteed Post Office Savings Bank and other savings institutions. Unlike earlier studies for neighbouring countries, we demonstrate that this shift was driven less by a flight to safety and more by
Ruben Peeters +1 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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Microfinance tradeoffs : regulation, competition, and financing [PDF]
This paper describes important trade-offs that microfinance practitioners, donors, and regulators navigate. Drawing evidence from large, global surveys of microfinance institutions, the authors find a basic tension between meeting social goals and ...
Cull, Robert +2 more
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