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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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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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Technological and Economic Development of EconomyEconomic freedom has central importance among the nations, however, Chinese economic freedom index declining continuously, leading to the several issues. Particularly, economic freedom is low among the Chinese female population.
Jiuzheng Pei
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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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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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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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Board diversity and performance of microfinance institutions (MFIS): Evidence from an emerging economy [PDF]
, 2018 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are important service providers of finance for unbanked people and have experienced a high growth over the past decades.
Locke, Stuart, Thrikawala, Sujani
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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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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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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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