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Microfinance and the Millennium Development Goals in Pakistan: Impact Assessment Using Propensity Score Matching
Setboonsarng, Sununtar; Parpiev, Ziyodullo - eSocialSciences - 2010
Using data from a survey of clients of a microfinance bank, Khushhali Bank, in 2005, the study revisited the survey data and found that despite the Bank’s strict poverty-targeting program used in client selection and despite the survey’s design to address the selectivity bias, the...
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Customer Centricity and the Reserve Bank
V, Leeladhar - eSocialSciences - 2007
review, examination and evaluation of customer service in the banks. It has been reviewing the progress periodically and has …
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The Financial Structure and Performance of Philippine Credit Cooperatives
Llanto, Gilberto M - eSocialSciences - 2012
This study is an attempt to assess the importance and potential impact of any further development of the credit cooperative sector; identify development interventions that will result in a strong Filipino credit cooperative financial system; formulate policy recommendations that will support the...
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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
Fisman, Raymond; Paravisini, Daniel; Vig, Vikrant - eSocialSciences - 2012
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 borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces … exogenous matching between officers and borrowers. Cultural proximity increases lending on both intensive and extensive margins …
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Failed Mechanism: How the CDM is Subsidizing Hydro Developers and Harming the Kyoto Protocol
Haya, Barbara - eSocialSciences - 2012
Five years age, International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be used to encourage construction of otherwise uneconomic large hydropower projects, taking limited funds away...
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the study assessed the multifactorial drivers of...
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The New Age of Food Marketing: How Companies are Targeting and Luring our Kids — and What Advocates can do About it
BMSG, Berkeley Media Studies Group - eSocialSciences - 2012
Why should health advocates be concerned about the new marketing paradigm? Because young people's choices about what to eat and when are largely shaped by food and beverage marketing -- and these industries are now reaching our kids through a multitude of interactive devices and platforms,...
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Opening India’s Garments Sector to South Asia
Ray, Saon; Taneja, Nisha; Kaushal, Neetika - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper examines the competitiveness of the Indian garments industry vis-à-vis the other South Asian countries Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Under the SAFTA agreement, many of the garment items were on India’s sensitive lists and did not face concessional treatment. Though many of...
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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - eSocialSciences - 2014
The paper examines individuals’ abilities to identify the highly central people in their social networks, where centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson, 2013), which characterizes a node’s influence in spreading information. It...
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Statement by Dr. Raghuram Rajan
Badkar, Sabeeta - eSocialSciences - 2013
Statement by Dr. Raghuram Rajan on taking office on September 4, 2013. [RBI Press release].
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