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Building and maintaining financial security is increasingly difficult for a growing portion of American households. Wealth is less prevalent in middle-class households and increasing among the already well-to-do. At the same time, poverty is growing and concentrating disproportionately among the...
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Review of 'The End of Poverty' by Jeffrey Sachs
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Cet essai traite de ce qu’on appelle habituellement les PME ( Petites et Moyennes entreprises, incluant donc les TPE, très petites entreprises). Mais il pose en préambule la question de la pertinence, d’un point de vue économique, de cette catégorie statistique, définie, par exemple,...
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Le présent article se situe dans le prolongement d’un précédent travail exploratoire sur les régimes de financement et se réfère à l’économie des conventions. Cette problématique ne se prête que difficilement à l’observation dans la mesure où nombre des modalités y concourrant...
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Micro- and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) have become important players in the Kenyan economy, but at the same time they continue to face constraints that limit their development. Lack of access to financial services is one of the main constraints, and a number of factors have been identified to...
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Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between f$
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A recent study finds that telephone and face-to-face counseling can be equally effective and appear to generate equivalent outcomes for consumers' creditworthiness two years later. The increase in telephone and online counseling may encourage consumers to seek earlier assistance for their credit...
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Government actions, combined with oversight and standardization from industry organizations, benefit consumers by enabling them to more easily identify agencies that work in their best interest and are certified to provide them with quality financial education.
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Access to mainstream financial services is on the horizon for unbanked and underbanked consumers in Houston through Get Checking(TM), a national initiative sponsored by eFunds Corp. and the University of Wisconsin Extension.
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the Bank's hallmark personal finance education resource, Building Wealth. …
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