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Contract Farming and Children's Education: Evidence From Maize Producers in Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming (CF) has continued to proliferate in the small farm sector of developing countries. While its effects on smallholders across welfare outcomes such as income and food security have been well documented, there are growing concerns about its broader social implications especially on children.
Francis E. Ndip, Abraham M. Adongo, Perez L. Kemeni Kambiet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financing a Private Practice: A Practical Framework for Plastic Surgeons. [PDF]

Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
Mosca N, Zeitouni F, Tierney M, Via EC, Wirth PJ, Attaluri PK, Rao VK.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Financial Inclusion for Smallholders: Integrating a Resource Nexus Approach Into Agricultural Finance Systems

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers remain structurally excluded from the current agricultural finance system. Existing research in this area examines financial inclusion through fragmented environmental, social, and economic lenses, limiting system‐level understanding.
Vaibhav Aggarwal, Matthias Walz, Edeltraud Guenther   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Matrix-based solution methods for deformable derivative systems: applications to growth-decay and mortgage models. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Priya K, Ayman-Mursaleen M, Ujlayan A, Rao N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Parental support, savings and student loan repayment

, 2018
Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loans Program, we document that parental support and personal savings substantially lower student loan repayment problems.
Stinebrickner, Todd R., Lochner, Lance, Suleymanoglu, Utku   +2 more
core  

Water, Sanitation and Health: The World Bank's Financing of Sustainable Development Goal 6

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The World Bank has an explicit commitment to financing projects aimed at ensuring access to drinking water and sanitation (SDG 6), given their implications for countries' development. The objective of this study is to analyse its performance over the past decades, in order to understand the evolution of the allocated amount and the ...
Cristina Martínez‐Gómez, Leticia Gallego‐Valero, Encarnación Moral‐Pajares   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disclosing the costs of co-holding liquid assets and high-interest debt has limited impact on behavior. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Batista RM, Mao E, Sussman AB, Mahoney N, Min J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Inclusion to Decent Jobs and Empowerment for Women and Youth in Agrifood Value Chains in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Policy Lessons From a Systematic Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across Sub‐Saharan Africa, women and youth are frequently identified as key beneficiaries of agrifood employment and value‐chain development policies. However, evidence on how inclusion unfolds within agrifood value chains remains limited, particularly in relation to whether participation generates decent work, better returns and meaningful ...
Toritseju Begho, Sarah Enwa, Oraye Dicta Ogisi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing evolutionary theories of human cooperation via meta-analysis of microfinance repayment. [PDF]

Evol Hum Sci
Foster D, Postma E, Lamba S, Mesoudi A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rainchecks and Risk: Climate Shocks, Policy Transitions and SME Credit Dynamics

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises rely heavily on bank credit. They also have the fewest tools to deal with climate risk. Using a panel of 45 countries from 2007 to 2022, we study how climate risk and the Paris Agreement shape SME bank lending. Climate‐related disasters are associated with lower SME credit, with post‐event estimates indicating a ...
Swapnanil SenGupta, Anshita Sachan
wiley   +1 more source