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Microfinance and the Decline of Poverty: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
Deneweth, Heidi; Gelderblom, Oscar; Jonker, Joost - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2013
alleviate poverty before the twentieth century by unravelling the financial rationale behind the various combinations of private … microfinance institutions, yet none of them were in a position to help the poor. We find that in the Netherlands the boundary of …
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: Performance, pay and promotion: implementing a Weberian bureaucracy in nineteenth century Baden
Selgert, Felix - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 1, pp. 79-113
This paper is based on the difference between the formal introduction of a Weberian bureaucracy and its actual implementation through state officials. This difference between the formal institutional framework and its actual implementation could lead to failed reforms. On the other side, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010875689
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The economy of a parish church in the diocese of Linköping 1592-1735
Hansson, Göran - Department of Economic History, Stockholm University - 2009
This paper shows how an economy of a small parish developed over a consider-able time during Sweden’s period as a great power and in the beginning of the Age of Liberty up to 1735. The actual parish (Kälvsten) was a chapel of ease and situated in the diocese of Linköping. This diocese is one...
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Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akçomak, I. Semih; Webbink, Dinand; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...
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Why Did the Netherlands Develop so Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Weel, Bas ter; Akcomak, Semih; Webbink, Dinand - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2013
In many Dutch cities there are Geert Groote schools. This is no coincidence, because Geert Groote's (1340-1384) ideas form the foundation of modern education in the Netherlands and many other countries. Much less known is that his investments, and those of his followers, have put the...
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism the Haugian Way.
Grytten, Ola H. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2012
On the basis of availabale sources the present paper seeks to map entrepreneural industrial activities the Norwegian puritan revivalist Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771-1824) was involved in and quantify his financial activities. It also tries to map entrepreneural activities by his followers. The paper...
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Growth in public finances as tool for control: Norwegian development 1850-1950.
Grytten, Ola - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014
By drawing on information from public accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth century the present paper aims at mapping the development of key financial indicators for the Norwegian central government sector. It concludes that growth in the size of this sector often, but clearly not always,...
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Land Markets and Inequality: Evidence from Medieval England
Bekar, Cliff T.; Reed, Clyde G. - Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University - 2012
The 13th century witnessed a substantial increase in inequality in the distribution of peasant landholdings relative to the distribution of the late 11th century. Innovations in property rights over land in 12th century England induced peasants to include the trading of small parcels of land as...
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Poverty in Britain in 1904: An Early Social Survey Rediscovered
Newell, Andrew Thomas; Gazeley, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century … deficiencies. We use these data to estimate urban poverty in the British Isles in 1904. Applying Bowley’s poverty line we find that … close to Rowntree’s estimate of primary poverty for York 1899 and in the range that Bowley found in Northern towns in 1912 …
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Meeting the double bottom line: the impact of Khushhali bank's microfinance program in Pakistan
Montgomery, Heather - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Is it possible for microfinance institutions to simultaneously pursue profits and poverty reduction? This study … 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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