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Developing and Testing a Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Financial Tool
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) represents a paradigm shift in the provision of safely managed sanitation services with a framework of three outcomes—equity, safety and sustainability. There are several sanitation financial tools, but none of these fully address all CWIS outcomes. Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Financial Tool (CWIS‐FiT) is
Camila Silva Franco +6 more
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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 +2 more
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Governance Quality and MFIs Repayment Performance
How is MFIs governance quality measured? What is the relationship between MFIs governance quality and repayment performance? This paper sheds light on these questions while using data from 250 African MFIs. While using linear multiple regression, we find first, that better governance can be measured by an aggregated index which encompasses a series of ...
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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 +2 more
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Factors Affecting Loan Repayment Performance of Smallholder Farmers in East Hararghe, Ethiopia
, 2012 This paper examined the determinants of loan repayment performance among smallholder farmers in East Hararghe zone, Ethiopia specifically Kombolcha and Babile districts. In the study area, the Regional Government through Oromiya Saving and Credit Share
Sileshi, Million +2 more
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Testing evolutionary theories of human cooperation via meta-analysis of microfinance repayment. [PDF]
Evol Hum SciFoster D, Postma E, Lamba S, Mesoudi A.
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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
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Repayment Frequency and Repayment Performance in Microfinance
, 2012 This paper explains why most microfinance institutions (MFIs) employ equal install-ment schedules rather than a single repayment one, which has been a puzzle for economic theorists.
Goto Hideaki, Hideaki Goto Y
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Transforming financial documents into credit decisions using explainable artificial intelligence and optical character recognition. [PDF]
MethodsXMalave S +5 more
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Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Using 14,108 Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns, we examine three strategies to gather support from first‐time versus repeat backers: narrative distinctiveness aligning with backers' expectations of novelty, endorsement from Kickstarter staff, and campaign leadership's reciprocity of funding other campaigns.
Stephanie Hepp +2 more
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