examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

%. At the household level, street paving increased the use of collateral-based credit and average loan size. Additionally … result of pavement. We provide compelling evidence that the mechanism explaining the durable goods increase is the credit … channel: the raise in durable goods as well as in credit use was only present among households with access to financial …

' inability to cover short-term consumption needs with savings or credit. We conduct a field experiment in rural Zambia to … investigate the relationship between credit availability and rural labor supply. We find that providing households with access to … credit during the growing season substantially alters the allocation of household labor, with households in villages randomly …

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural … credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India …

use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …

This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis …

rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the …

With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis …