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Vulnerability of Microfinance to Strategic Default and Covariate Shocks:Evidence from Pakistan [PDF]
This paper investigates the repayment behavior of microfinance borrowers in Pakistan using a unique dataset of about 45,000 installments/repayments covering 2,945 microfinance borrower households over the period 1998-2007. In early 2005, the microfinance
Kurosaki, Takashi, Khan, Hidayat Ullah
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, 2023 The probability that the beneficiary would default on future payments poses a great risk to extending agricultural credit. Also, previous research on farmers’ repayment of agricultural credit emphasized that a high default rate is a growing concern ...
Oriade, O.A. +4 more
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Mixed-ownership reform and deleveraging of state-owned enterprises: Degree and methods
China Journal of Accounting Studies, 2022 Based on data of state-owned enterprises listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2007 to 2018, this study examines how mixed-ownership reform affects the deleveraging behaviour of state-owned enterprises (hereafter, SOEs).
Yulan Wang, Xiaochen Dou, Zhiyi Liu
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Harnessing Generative AI for Sustainable Supply Chains: Lean, Circular and Green Perspectives
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence is playing a significant role in the transformation of digital ecosystems by reinventing the processes of content generation, process automation, product innovation and customer experience. At the same time that these technologies are becoming more integrated into routine operations, the focus has shifted to ...
Ashutosh Singh +3 more
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What Affects the Growth of Military Enterprises in China: Research and Development?
IEEE Access, 2022 Sustainable growth of military enterprises is key to developing the national defense industry. Therefore, we selected the financial data of 90 military enterprises listed in China. Using the factor analysis method, we obtained the growth evaluation index
Shacheng Wang, Dai Tang
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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EDUCATION LOAN REPAYMENT AND PERFORMANCES: THE MALAYSIAN GRADUATES PERSPECTIVES
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2015 This study examined the factors that encouraged and influenced the intention to make repayment of education loan, National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) in Malaysia. The study adapted the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) based on the study of Fishbein and Ajzen (1980) whose aim was mainly to predict the attitudinal influence and behavioural ...
Sek Khin Edward Wong +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rapid technological change, shorter lifecycles and rising demand for electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) are increasing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and emphasise the need for a circular economy. This paper identifies barriers and enablers of the circular transition in EEE and outlines interventions.
Aya Abdelmeguid, Lucia Corsini
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study demonstrates how a profitable, lean, and environmentally responsible e‐waste reverse logistics system can be designed using integrated Operations Research (OR) techniques. Addressing the growing urgency of responsible consumption (UN SDG 12) and the projected rise of the e‐waste sector to USD 137.60 billion by 2029, the research ...
Sheeba Pathak, Hajar Fatorachian
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