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The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to highlight the widely ignored but fundamental problem of ‘superpopulations’ for the use of inferential statistics in development studies. We do not to dwell on this problem however as it has been sufficiently discussed in older papers by...
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We propose a model for studying the dynamics of economic structures. The model is based on qualitative information …
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explores this question by analyzing the impact of Khushhali Bank, the largest retail microfinance bank in Pakistan. Khushhali … the bank also had an impact on economic or social measures of poverty, including empowerment of poor women, or income …
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In an era in which accountability, cost effectiveness and impact orientation are at premium, Research and Technological …. In recognising that the developmental impact of research is notoriously difficult to assess, the paper is predicated on … impact. The background to this paper is a DFID-funded pilot action research project that ran between September 2001 and …
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Empirical studies across many developing countries routinely document a positive correlation between participation in rural nonfarm employment and households’ wealth or income. This paper explores whether nonfarm employment leads to higher consumption expenditure growth in Ethiopia. We find...
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Despite the extensive spread of micro finance, studies on the actual impact of MFIs are often more ambivalent about its … impact than is the aid community. Much has been written on the range of institutional arrangements pursued in different … organizations and countries and in turn a vast number studies have attempted to assess the outreach and poverty impact of such …
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on various domains of human activity. The impact of globalization will be analyzed from the perspective of the cause … with phenomenon of globalization. In this context, our main objectives are represented by the research demarche to create a … model of quantification the impact of globalization on regulations and accounting systems. We believe that such a model of …
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The fiscal policies in the contemporaneous economic systems heavy influence both the real and nominal sectors. These effects could be located at the primary distribution of the social resources as will as at level their redistribution one. The aims of this paper are: (1) to review the literature...
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the influence and impact held by moreover complex requirements of local communities on global production, which represents … studies of impact and forecast on short or medium term. The study that we have developed by means of the current paper may be …
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, communication, rural market, rural infrastructure and farm research, should be drastically increased, and the government should aim …
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