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Non-monotonic Repayment Contracts are Superior: An Experimental Approach [PDF]

We experimentally investigate if theoretically superior non-monotonic repayment contracts yield superior results in the laboratory. We find replacing standard debt contracts with repayment-equivalent non-monotonic contracts increases entrepreneurial ...
Wolff, Irenaeus, Reiss, J. Philipp
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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

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

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

International Dimensions in the Financing of Higher Education [PDF]

This chapter compares and contrasts international experience with respect to higher education financing. The size and payment forms of tuition, and the different types and levels of public sector support, are illustrated for a large number of countries ...
Bruce Chapman, Peter Tulip
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When ESG Failure Triggers Control Rights: Sustainability‐Linked Convertibles and Incomplete Contracting

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The majority of existing sustainability‐linked bonds and loans utilize a pricing‐based approach in order to link the terms of the financing to an issuer's environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. However, from a governance perspective, such an approach suffers from a critical weakness.
Hyoung‐Goo Kang, Joon Hyug Chung, Taewoo Roh   +2 more
wiley   +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

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

Climate Justice in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Unequal Burdens and Pathways to Socially Just Adaptation

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change in Sub‐Saharan Africa is often framed through vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation, yet these concepts alone do not fully explain the unequal social, economic, and political conditions shaping climate harm. This review examines climate change through a climate justice lens, focusing on unequal burdens, household welfare ...
Jacob Kwakye, Abraham Kwao
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source