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Access to justice and entrepreneurship : evidence from Brazil's special civil tribunals

Lichand, Guilherme; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2011

Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...

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Economic governance of MFIs : inside the black box

Arun, Thankom; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2010

This paper investigates a relationship between economic governance and the dual objectives of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs): poverty reduction and financial viability. Using an unbalanced panel of 531 MFIs the important role of other institutions such as country-level business registry...

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The impact of high microfinance growth on loan portfolio

Yimga, Jules - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 28 (2016) 5, pp. 697-714

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Enrolment in micro life and health insurance : evidences from Sri Lanka

Bendig, Mirko; Arun, Thankom - 2011

Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated with family related shocks. Therefore, this paper presents evidence on the determinants of insurance participation using probit models on household survey data from Sri Lanka,...

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Fighting poverty : assessing the effect of guaranteed minimum income proposals in Québec

Clavet, Nicholas-James; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lacroix, Guy - 2013

. -- Guaranteed Minimum Income ; ex ante evaluation ; labor market effects ; financial cost ; poverty alleviation ; public finance …

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The impact of immigrants on public finances : a forecast analysis for Denmark

Hansen, Marianne Frank; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; … - 2015

All over Europe, ageing populations threaten nations' financial sustainability. In this paper we examine the potential of immigration to strengthen financial sustainability. We look at a particularly challenging case, namely that of Denmark, which has extensive tax-financed welfare programmes...

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Aid and the public sector in Pakistan : evidence with endogenous aid

Franco-Rodríguez, Susana - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 26 (1998) 7, pp. 1241-1250

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Corporate investments in Asian markets : financial conditions, financial development, and financial constraints

Socorro Gochoco-Bautista, Maria; Sotocinal, Noli R.; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 57 (2014), pp. 63-78

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Funding self-employment : the role of consumer credit

Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self … that overdrafts are used by self-employed to finance their business as well. This indicates that intermingling constitutes … a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. -- small business finance ; consumer credit …

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Severance pay and corporate finance : empirical evidence from a panel of Austrian and Italian firms

Cardinale, Mirko (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance. Severance pay is an economic debt …

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