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Overcoming Barriers and Solutions for Catalysing Private Capital in Climate Adaptation: A Stakeholder‐Informed Agenda for Hong Kong's Intermediary Role in Southeast Asia

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates stakeholder perspectives on mobilising private‐sector finance for climate adaptation in Southeast Asia, emphasising Hong Kong's role as a financial intermediary. Through semi‐structured interviews with diverse stakeholders, including practitioners, policymakers, insurers, and project developers, we employed a grounded ...
Laurence L. Delina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microfinance; A Poverty Reduction Tool, Socio-Economic Prospective

open access: yesJournal of Management and Research, 2014
This paper aims to critically evaluate the microfinance approach in social and economic perspective. Critical analysis reveals that microfinance can be used as an efficient tool to reduce poverty, thus contributing towards economic as well as social ...
ADA JAFFERY, DAWOOD MAMOON
doaj   +1 more source

How Program‐ and Community‐Led Design Settings Affect Resilience Approaches to Sustainable Development Projects

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Development interventions must deal with rapid and novel changes affecting complex social‐ecological systems, calling for design based on a resilience approach. However, limited analytical attention has been paid to the design settings in which such approaches are deployed.
Yiheyis Maru   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Social and Financial Performance of Conventional and Islamic Microfinance Institutions in Pakistan

open access: yesالإيضاح, 2014
The financing operations of conventional microfinance institutions are usually based on interest (Usury/Riba) which is strictly prohibited by the Shariah of Islam, therefore, some Islamic microfinance institutions were set up in Pakistan to provide micro
Dr. Muhammad Farooq, Zahoor Khan
doaj  

FinTech and Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From Brazil

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamic interplay between economic growth and environmental sustainability from a FinTech perspective, using Brazil as a case study. While FinTech's contribution to green transformation, sustainable finance, and resource efficiency has gained increasing attention, a notable lack of empirical research remains to assess ...
Kemal Eyuboglu, Umut Uzar
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming barriers? The mixed results of social innovation accelerator programs for women entrepreneurs

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurship accelerators are increasingly promoted as structural interventions to close gender gaps, yet studies have not established a differential impact of participation for women. This prior evidence—drawn from high‐tech, male‐dominated settings—may overlook how outcomes differ in more feminized domains such as social
Nilanjana Dutt, Sarah Kaplan
wiley   +1 more source

Financial sustainability of rural microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Tanzania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
An enduring problem facing microfinance institutions is how to attain financial sustainability. Several studies have been conducted to determine the factors affecting financial sustainability of microfinance institutions using large and well developed ...
Nyamsogoro, Ganka Daniel
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Sustainability in Microfinance Institutions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Inspirado en el Programa de Acción de 1999 definido por Naciones Unidas en el que se describen ocho ámbitos pragmáticos para una Cultura de Paz. Mi propuesta trabajará sobre el apartado ‘Desarrollo económico y social sostenible’ evaluando las microfinanzas y las organizaciones que las gestionan, como herramienta para la consecución de este objetivo ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Gender‐Sensitive Resilience in Kyrgyz Households: Latent Profile and Cross‐Lagged Dynamic Panel Approaches

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Employee Engagement, and Managerial Decision-Making on the Microfinance Institutions Performance

open access: yesMedia Ekonomi dan Manajemen
This study examines the impact of employee organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and engagement on the performance of microfinance institutions, with a focus on the moderating role of managerial decision-making.
Donni Junipriansa   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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