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Improving loan repayment in Ghana: Does financial literacy matter?
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020 Loan defaults continue to be a major challenge that confronts financial institutions in developing countries and this impedes their potential role in sustainable development.
Samuel Tawiah Baidoo +2 more
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BEHAVIORAL BIASES AND CREDIT CARD REPAYMENTS AMONG MALAYSIANS
The International Journal of Banking and Finance, 2023 Analyses done using the survey response of 451 credit cardholders in the northern region of West Malaysia have shown that credit cardholder repayment pattern differed based on their demographic profile.
Fazelina Sahul Hamid +1 more
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Frontiers in PharmacologyUnaffordable medical treatment and inflated drug prices have become a challenging issue for lawmakers worldwide. To reduce the financial burden and standardize the pharmaceutical market, the Chinese government has issued several detailed regulations ...
Jingjing Cao +4 more
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The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 2022 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) were introduced to reach a large number of active poor people who are excluded from the formal financial institutions due to rigorous collateral requirements.
Yitbarek Weldegerima Kiros
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Banking on cooperation: an evolutionary analysis of microfinance loan repayment behaviour
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Microfinance is an economic development tool that provides loans to low-income borrowers to stimulate economic growth and reduce financial hardship. Lenders typically require joint liability, where multiple borrowers share the responsibility of repaying ...
Stefan Gehrig +2 more
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Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki +6 more
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Paying back comes first: why repayment means more than business in rural Senegal
, 2009 Giving small loans to women has become a mainstay in development practitioners' toolkits. Using data collected for Oxfam America's Saving for Change (SFC) project, this article argues that repayment of micro-credit cannot be used as a measure of micro ...
Amelia Duffy-Tumasz
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Technical Debt Repayment in Practice [PDF]
, 2021 Technical debt repayment is the TD management activity which refers to the remediation of technical debt by reworking design and implementation constructs.
Tan, Jie; id_orcid, null null, Jie Tan
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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