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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad +1 more
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Will microfinance continue to evolve into a mainstream asset class? Indications in favor and against [PDF]
The microfinance sector has been going through profound changes in the last decades: It evolved from a donor-based community, driven by philanthropic objectives, to a high growth market that is today attracting commercial investors who seek social impact
Kirchstein, Katja, Welvers, Kathleen
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Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Access to finance is critical for rural non‐farm self‐employment businesses in Southeast Asia, but financial constraints and gender discrimination impede their growth. Existing literature largely overlooks vulnerable groups like rural household businesses.
Chung Thanh Phan +3 more
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Tracking Aspirations: Neoliberal Education and Mobility for Cambodian Youth
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Cambodia, this article focuses on secondary students who aspire to social and spatial mobility. It examines how a subject‐based tracking system intersects with other facets of the educational landscape to stratify students along class lines.
Jennifer Estes
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Does regulatory supervision curtail microfinance profitability and outreach ? [PDF]
Regulation allows microfinance institutions to evolve more fully into banks, particularly for institutions aiming to take deposits. But there are potential trade-offs. Complying with regulation and supervision can be costly.
Cull , Robert +2 more
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Helping Microfinance Become Commercially Sustainable [PDF]
, 2011 Microfinance primarily refers to the making of small loans to low-income individuals and the poor, to enable them to start or expand small businesses. Currently, most microfinance loans are made through nonprofit microfinance institutions (MFIs) that
Schwarcz, Steven L.
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 644-655, March 2026.ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to analyze the factors that affect the entrepreneurial activity of women in the informal economy in emerging economies, considering their motivations and the challenges they face in this context. The research was conducted through a systematic literature review, accompanied by a bibliographic analysis of the main ...
Rebecca Thaffenne Santos Oliveira +3 more
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FinTechs Playing in the Regulatory Sandbox—The Effect of Interacting Signals on Funding
Information Systems Journal, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 166-182, March 2026.ABSTRACT Membership in regulatory sandboxes seems to help financial technology ventures (FinTechs) signal their qualities to investors. However, FinTechs have a dual identity, meaning they are both banking firms and entrepreneurial, growth‐oriented ventures, and thus likely send various and potentially conflicting signals.
Bastian Kindermann +2 more
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Comparative review of microfinance regulatory framework issues in Benin, Ghana, and Tanzania [PDF]
The authors investigate the microfinance regulatory regimes in Benin, Ghana, and Tanzania, with a view to identifying key issues and lessons on how the overall regulatory framework affects integration of microfinance institutions into the financial ...
Gallardo, Joselito +3 more
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