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This paper is the first result of a project aiming at understanding the history of bankruptcy law from an empirical economic perspective. By contrast with some proponents of "law and economics" (e.g. La Porta & alii, 1998), we consider that the impact of bankruptcy law on national economic...
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In this paper, we provide an institutional interpretation of Schumpeter's analysis of money, banking and finance. This interpretation is founded on an overall investigation into Schumpeter's writings addressing those issues from different perspectives.In section 1, we discuss the widespread...
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crédit est plafonné par la législation. En parallèle, la croissance de la microfinance dans le monde a montré que les … techniques innovatrices peuvent augmenter la disponibilité de crédit, sans augmenter indûment le risque. Néanmoins, cette … croissance de l'accès au crédit peut ne pas se concrétiser si les taux de crédit restent plafonnés par des lois régissant l …
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real per output growth, excess credit, foreign direct investment (FDI) and the current account balance, in the Central and … credit. The results are economically and statistically significant, and robust. …
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Improving access to capital through credit and public spendings is an important step toward development and poverty … shows that deforestation is positively correlated to access to credit and public spendings, which gives some evidence that … natural capital is a complement to credit and public spendings. …
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Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...
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The households who live in the rural areas of Northern Ghana base their subsistence on natural resources, which are threatened by the progressive desertification and increased frequency of extreme weather events in the region. We draw on a field work and on extensive secondary data sources to...
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This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …. Female presence and professional diversity reduce risk but nationality and ethnicity diversities are associated with higher …
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non-zero risk levels. Some contemporary European societies tolerate about one fatality per thousand year around industrial …
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Using a recent household survey conducted in Senegal, I examine the impact of negative and positive income shocks on departures from and entries in the household. I focus on differences in responses to shocks across the urban and rural sectors as well as age and gender groups. Striking...
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