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This report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...
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Iraq is one of the world’s major oil suppliers, and over ninety percent of its government revenues come from oil … Saddam Hussein. One major political battle preventing Iraq from developing its hydrocarbons industry is over the nature of … federalism among all of the sects battling for oil wealth in Iraq. This paper focuses primarily on the issue between Kurds and …
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This study reexamines the Asian stock market contagion by employing a dynamic multivariate GARCH model. Based on a commonly held definition, contagion is defined as a significant increase in comovements between asset returns across markets. By analyzing the correlation coefficient series, this...
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This study analyses income inequality and poverty in the rural and urban sectors in Iran during the post Islamic revolution period, 1983-1993. It has been based on household level data relating to the Household Income and Expenditure Surveys conducted by the Statistical Centre of Iran for 1983,...
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The article examines the consequences of corruption, political stability and state institutions on foreign direct investments in Romania as a result of the development of financial instruments and technological means. The paper examines the concepts found in the literature referring to the...
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Uncertainty of continued donor funding poses a risk to microfinance operations worldwide, and … thisstudy explores the circumstances under which African microfinance institutions (MFIs) will considercommercial funding as a … microfinance institutions grow, they increasingly findthemselves in need of additional capital to finance expansion of services to …
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Using an econometric approach on panel data collected from 53 microfinance institutions(MFIs) in Uganda over a period …
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growth and poverty alleviation. Microfinance is seen as one of the effective tools that can address poverty alleviation by … engaging the poor in sustainable economic activities. Microfinance services have existed in Namibia since the late 1990s, yet … they have not attained growth.The main providers of microfinance services consist mainly of Micro-lenders, Non …
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In the microfinance discourse, sustainability can relate to organisational, managerial and financial aspects. However …
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This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on theperformance of rice firms … models. After effectively correcting forselectivity bias, the mean profit efficiency of the microfinance borrowers and non …
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