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Labor and welfare impacts of a large-scale livelihoods program : quasi-experimental evidence from India
Pandey, Vivek; Gupta, Abhishek; Gupta, Shivani - 2019
Improving the livelihoods of poor households and transitioning more women back to the labor force is a major challenge in South Asia. Self-employment promoted through women's groups has often been cited as a promising intervention towards this end. However, the evidence on the impact of such...
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Too global to fail : the World Bank at the intersection of national and global public policy in 2025
Evans, J. W. - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245116
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Making global value chains work for development
Taglioni, Daria; Winkler, Deborah - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
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Jati inequality in rural Bihar
Joshi, Shareen; Kochhar, Nishtha; Rao, Vijayendra - 2018
Caste is a persistent driver of inequality in India, and it is generally analyzed with government-defined broad categories, such as Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe. In everyday life, however, caste is lived and experienced as jati, which is a local system of stratification. Little is known...
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Responses to Weather and Climate : A Cross-Section Analysis of Rural Incomes
Noack, Frederik - 2015
How much do poor rural households rely on environmental extraction from natural ecosystems? And how does climate variability impact their livelihoods? This paper sheds light on these two questions with household income data from the Poverty and Environment Network pantropical data set, combined...
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Improving the Rural Investment Climate for Businesses : Key to Rural Income Generation
Sawada, Naotaka - 2012
An appropriate rural investment climate (RIC) is essential for rural businesses to be successful and generate employment and income in their communities. Improving the investment climate could facilitate income-generation activities in both farm and nonfarm sectors, thus reducing rural poverty....
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Rural Banking : The Case of Rural and Community Banks in Ghana
Nair, Ajai - 2010
This case study describes the history and business model of the Rural and Community Bank (RCB) network in Ghana, analyzes its performance, identifies key issues, and makes recommendations on the way forward. The study analyzes the service delivery and financial performance of the RCBs. Before...
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Seasonality of Rural Finance
Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2017
active in rural areas take different measures to address the covariate risks in in-termediation. For example, microfinance … financial inclusion policies of micro-finance institutions have successfully helped reduce the adverse effects of covariate … risks. Analysis of house-hold and program level data from Bangladesh suggests that despite the innovative measures taken by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246355
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Transport costs, comparative advantage, and agricultural development : evidence from Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh
Blankespoor, Brian; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan; … - 2018
. The empirical context of the analysis is the Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh, which opened in 1998 and reduced the transport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902873
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Public Good Provision in Indian Rural Areas : The Returns to Collective Action by Microfinance Groups
Casini, Paolo - 2015
Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide evidence that SHGs …
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