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Os efeitos do microcrédito na renda dos beneficiários: Análise do Programa Crescer
da Silva, Napoleão Luiz Costa; Saccaro, Alice; … - 2024
), considered a microcredit policy aimed at low-income formal and informal micro-entrepreneurs, providing credit without collateral …
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Econometric Analysis Of Efficiency In The Indian Manufacturing Sector
Dimitriu, Maria Caracota; Savu, Blessy Mathew - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2010) 1, pp. 182-197
in India is dichotomous in nature, depending on whether the firm in question functions in the formal or informal sector …
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Microfinance for poverty alleviation : do transnational initiatives overlook fundamental questions of competition and intermediation?
Arp, Frithjof; Ardisa, Alvin; Ardisa, Alviani - 2017
interview market participants and triangulate the perspectives of borrowers with those of formal and informal lenders …. Importantly, our research includes current and past borrowing from formal and informal sources, prompting participants to draw … unintended consequence of formal microfinance: The availability of formal low-interest microfinance creates informal …
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Development of capitals and capabilities of smallholder farmers for promoting inclusive intensification in agriculture: Experiences from northern West Bengal, India
Mishra, Pulak; Behera, Bhagirath; Bagchi, Niladri Sekhar; … - 2023
While policies and institutional arrangements aimed at intensification and growth of the Indian agriculture sector are inevitable for the livelihoods and food security of the country's vast population, the inclusion of land-constrained farmers especially women, therein requires certain...
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Ethnic stereotypes and preferences on poverty assistance
Horváth, Ágnes; Janky, Béla - 2014
The authors introduce a simple model of public preferences on poverty assistance. Their focus is on the roles played by the socioeconomic status of a potential welfare recipient and the stereotypes about his/her ethnic group in shaping taxpayers' preferences on appropriate assistance. The model...
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The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach
Polachek, Solomon; Xiang, Jun - 2014
Social Survey Programme), LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) and OECD wage data for 35 countries covering 1970-2002, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468129
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Ethnic stereotypes and preferences on poverty assistance
Horváth, Ágnes; Janky, Béla - 2014
The authors introduce a simple model of public preferences on poverty assistance. Their focus is on the roles played by the socioeconomic status of a potential welfare recipient and the stereotypes about his/her ethnic group in shaping taxpayers' preferences on appropriate assistance. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401554
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The gender pay gap across countries : a human capital approach
Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2014
Social Survey Programme), LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) and OECD wage data for 35 countries covering 1970-2002, we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424152
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Field Notes from the Super-Storm Sandy Catastrophe
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2012
Sandy struck a strategically important city in a strategically important country within days of a strategically important election. Climate justice has many synergistic and sometimes competing dimensions. Irrespective of the degree to which climate change contributes to any given weather event,...
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Climate Change and Natural Gas Dynamic Governance
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2013
Hydraulic fracturing has been a game changer for the energy field, bringing to mind the “nothing in excess” carving at Delphi. Whether heeding ancient oracles or cutting-edge principles of calibration, I argue that dynamic governance innovation can facilitate climate-energy-water balancing...
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