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This working paper examines the current academic literature on access to finance for female entrepreneurs and female-led enterprises. It covers two main financing markets: credit and venture capital (VC). The paper finds wide consensus in the academic field that gender-related credit and VC gaps...
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processes in three Asian countries (China, India and Indonesia) and on three different issues: violence against women, domestic …This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate … explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against gender equality policy change, with a particular focus on women …
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Remuneration-post-verification subsidies and microcredit have been postulated as potential solutions to imperfect … combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
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model, providing novel evidence that labeled microcredit is effective in influencing household borrowing and investment …
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Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis...
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