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Loan Allocation within Group Lending: New Evidence From Self-Help Group Program in South India
Goto, Jun - 2010
Microfinance (MF) has attracted growing attention as a means of improving financial access. Reflecting the enthusiasm … about it, Government of India has initiated the biggest MF program since 1992. This program adopts a group lending …, using original data collected in Kerala, South India. Estimation results show that the access to microcredit is not …
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Micro credit, empowerment and diversion of loan use
Vadakarasseril Anandan, Jameela - 2009
Service Society in Kerala, India. …Parallel session 7. Microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475946
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CARPET WEAVERS AND WEAVING IN THE GLOBAL MARKET: THE CASE OF TURKEY
Berman, Kimberly Ann - 2006
The purpose of this study is to examine factors affecting the lives of women who weave carpets in rural Turkey by investigating these questions: 1) Why do rural Turkish women weave carpets? 2) What are the influences of the global market on carpet design? 3) In what ways is the government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466186
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Conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps in India and Brazil
Gadgil, A.; Martino Jannuzzi, G. de - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP - 2008
electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved … of avoided peak installed capacity is 6 and 9.5 times less than the cost of new installed capacity for India and Brazil … national savings of the order of US $1.2 million per day for India and US $2.5 million per day for Brazil are reached in 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436308
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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania
Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437412
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The economics of road safety: an international perspective
McManus, W. - 2007
estimates the number of lives that could be saved in China and India as functions of the rate of improvement in fatalities per …
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem
Gatti, J Rupert J; Goeschl, Timo; Groom, Ben; Swanson, … - 2004
This paper describes global biodiversity conservation as a co-operative bargaining problem. We model an interdependent ‘technology rich’ North and a ‘gene rich’ South who must co-operate in the biotechnology sector in order to combine their unique and essential resources and maximise...
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Ecological-economic modeling for biodiversity management: Potential, pitfalls, and prospects
Watzold, F.; Drechsler, M.; Armstrong, C. W.; … - 2006
Ecologists and economists both use models to help develop strategies for biodiversity management. The practical use of disciplinary models, however, can be limited because ecological models tend not to address the socioeconomic dimension of biodiversity management, whereas economic models tend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447883
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On Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources in Protected Areas as an Instrument of Biodiversity Conservation : A Bioeconomic Analysis
Tai, Hsing-Sheng - 2002
The objective of this dissertation is to provide a theoretical framework for answering the question, whether and under which biological and socio-economic conditions the sustainable use of wild species in or around protected areas is an adequate strategy for biodiversity conservation. To do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476254