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Can women's self-help groups contribute to sustainable development? : evidence of capability changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; … - 2020
the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …-strand programs can help to explain the paradox as to why nearly 100 million women (in India alone) have participated in self help … programs despite modest global research evidence for micro-finance impacts on nominal incomes. Second, results argue strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164699
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Behavioral foundations of microcredit : experimental and survey evidence from rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - 2010
experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of … typical lending mechanisms. -- Time preference ; hyperbolic discounting ; self-control ; loan contracts ; microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959320
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Building trust in rural producer organizations in Senegal : results from a randomized controlled trial
Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015
Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the number and the type of smallholder farmers - members...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307900
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Young entrepreneurs in rural Africa : prevalence, determinants, productivity
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
productivity in enterprises operated by young owners. Using the World Bank's recent LSMS-ISA database that covers six countries in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419074
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Labor productivity in rural African enterprises : empirical evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's LSMS-ISA database, we find that rural enterprises are on average less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413138
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Household access to microcredit and child work in rural Malawi
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Sarangi, Sudipta (contributor) - 2005
This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises wherein much child labor is engaged, this paper aims to discover whether access to microcredit might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002764232
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Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being : evidence from rural Bangladesh
Bhuiyan, Muhammad Faress; Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018
Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship. However, its impacts on people's subjective well-being remain underexplored. We present a unified theoretical framework for analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912957
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Inequality and growth in rural China : does higher inequality impede growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne (contributor); Brandt, Loren (contributor);  … - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003474137
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Fiscal decentralization, rural industrialization, and undocumented labor mobility in rural China (1982-87)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2015
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516465
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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in urban areas. We provide evidence for 35 European countries, using the European Working Conditions Survey for the year 2015. We also study the time devoted to market work, and...
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