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Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2023 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) reach a large number of poor people who are not served by formal financial institutions and have been a prime element in the economic growth of countries like Ethiopia.
Yitbarek Kiros
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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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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
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Impacts of Drought on Loan Repayment
Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2023 In order to stress test loan portfolios for the impacts of climate change, historical events need to be analyzed to create templates to stress test for future events. Using the 2012 Midwestern US drought as an example, this work creates a stress-testing template for future droughts.
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Impact and mechanism of improving the UV aging resistance performance of modified asphalt binder
Reviews on Advanced Materials ScienceTo control the ultraviolet (UV) aging behavior of asphalt pavement materials effectively, hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS) is preferred as modifiers.
Zheng Guanghui +4 more
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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline [PDF]
, 2020 Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab-in-the-field
Spantig, Lisa +2 more
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Jurnal Ekonomi Modernisasi, 2008 The Mineral Water Regional Company (PDAM) in Malang is one of the company that was managed by the Government, many sectors have been straightened in order to facing the Regional autonomy. One of these straightens is the human resources sector. That’s why
Bambang Warsito
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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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