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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
Fisman, Raymond; Paravisini, Daniel; Vig, Vikrant - eSocialSciences - 2012
Evidence is presented to show that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders and borrowers improves the efficiency of credit allocation. In-group preferential treatment is identified using dyadic data on the religion and caste of bank officers and...
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Mission drawdowns - financing a sustainable peace : sustaining gains and supporting economic stability post un mission withdrawal
OECD - 2020
managed transition process is one of the best ways to guard against backslide and to ensure the continuity of essential … studies in DRC (initial stages of MONUSCO transition), Haiti (handover from MINUJUSH to BINUH), Liberia (following UNMIL …’s withdrawal) and Sudan (transition of UNAMID). The paper focuses on opportunities that the international community could integrate …
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Culture and Fertility Transition in India
Krishnan, Pramila - eSocialSciences - 2007
Examines the evidence for various explantions usually offered for the differences infertility behaviour across regions and over time in India. The data sets used in the study are National Sample Survey and Sample Registration System, the other using cultural characteristics from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487746
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Economic Aspects of Access to Medicines after 2005: Product Patent Protection and Emerging Firm Strategies in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
Sampath, Padmashree Gehl - eSocialSciences - 2010
the rest of the study to draw conclusions on various issues. A discussio of the main changes that are forcing a transition …
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Financial Development and Velocity of Money in Bangladesh: A Vector Auto- Regression Analysis
Akhtaruzzaman, Md. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study uses co-integration and vector auto-regression (VAR) techniques to identify the determinants of income velocity of money (VM) in Bangladesh, covering both narrow and broad money. The study observes that financial development affects VM negatively. The VAR estimates show that two...
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Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?
Rajan, Raghuram G. - eSocialSciences - 2005
Developments in the financial sector have led to an expansion in its ability to spread risks. The increase in the risk bearing capacity of economies, as well as in actual risk taking, has led to a range of financial transactions that hitherto were not possible, and has created much greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528297
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Providing Microfinance and Social Space to Empower Adolescent Girls: An Evaluation of BRAC’s ELA Centres
Shahnaz, Rizwana; Karim, Raihana - eSocialSciences - 2010
social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
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Short Duration Migration in India: An Appraisal from Census 2001
Korra, Vijay - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper tries to focus on the method to assess the magnitude of short/seasonal migration based on its broad characteristics. It attempts to analyse the contrasting characteristics of short duration and permanent migration. The study applies the widely recognised demographic technique of...
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Mesurer la performance sociale des entreprises par le prisme du Cadre de mesure du bien-être de l’OCDE
OECD - 2024
Cette synthèse présente un cadre conceptuel pour comprendre la performance non financière des entreprises par le prisme du Cadre de mesure du bien-être de l'OCDE. S'appuyant sur les approches existantes pour mesurer la performance sociale, elle propose un cadre et une série d'indicateurs...
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Measuring the social performance of firms through the lens of the OECD Well-being Framework
OECD - 2022
This Policy Insights presents a conceptual framework for understanding the non-financial performance of firms through the lens of the OECD Well-being Framework. Building on existing approaches for measuring non-financial performance, it proposes a measurement framework and indicator set for what...
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