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

Sustainable 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, Deborah O'Connell, Nicola Grigg, Annette Cowie, Million Belay, Alice Ruhweza, Mark Stafford Smith   +6 more
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The Social and Financial Performance of Conventional and Islamic Microfinance Institutions in Pakistan

الإيضاح, 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
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Comparative Study of the Regulatory Framework on Microfinance

Journal of Basic and Applied Research in Biomedicine, 2022
Microfinance is a source of financial services for people who are unable to gain access to traditional banking and financial services. Microfinance is based on two ways of being able to deliver financial services to people.
Jason Lin, Jane Sung
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Market opportunities for microfinance institutions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Taking a business scholar's standpoint I assess the future of the microfinance industry. The basic question I try to answer is why the microfinance market continues to grow while public support for the industry is shrinking. I identify six underlying forces – demographic transition, reduced poverty, urbanization, economic growth, technological ...
openaire   +3 more sources

FinTech and Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From Brazil

Sustainable 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

Convergence of the performance of microfinance institutions: A decomposition analysis [PDF]

Economic Modelling, 2019
In this paper, we focus on investigating whether and to what extent patterns of performance microfinance institutions converge over time. In particular, we analyze whether patterns of performance are related to changes in operating efficiency, capital deepening, and/or technological change for a large international sample of micro finance institutions ...
Li, Lin Yang, Hermes, Niels, Meesters, Aljar   +2 more
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The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Microfinance; A Poverty Reduction Tool, Socio-Economic Prospective

Journal 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
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A Technology‐First Framework for SDG Implementation in Carbon‐Based Economies: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Only 17% of Sustainable Development Goal indicators are globally on track, yet the structural conditions explaining this failure remain inadequately theorised for fossil‐fuel‐dependent economies. This study develops and empirically tests a four‐layer loop framework of Technology, Well‐being, Social Equity, and Sustainability closing through ...
Sameh W. H. Al‐Muqdadi, Dunya Al‐Hayali, Ahmed H. Saadoon, Basma Al‐kinani, Sama Yas, Nechirvan Kalary, Zahraa Obaid, Ahmed A. Mouhsen, Mariam M. Majeed, Nasr Alani   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resilience and Sustainability Through Interlinkages of Gender, Disaster, and Climate Change: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines gendered vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and policy translation in climate‐change induced disaster research using an intersectional lens in the Web of Science Database. Peer‐reviewed journal articles published in English between 2014 and 2024 focusing on gender, climate change, and disaster were
Tomo Kawane, Jebin Sultana Ahmed, Manman Wang, Divya Suresh, Naomi Kato, Weiwei Wang, Chuhan Wang, Rajib Shaw   +7 more
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