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Essays on Banking for Micro and Small Enterprises
Schrader, Jan Peter - 2009
countries after an aggregate income shock. The analysis is based on a data set in which the customer data of the microfinance … microfinance institution. The results support the hypothesis that especially transaction lending contributes to the problem of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476239
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Analysis of the Incentive Mechanisms of Individual and Group- Microlending Contracts
Vigenina, Denitsa - 2004
borrowing groups of the microfinance institutions Constanta (Georgia) and FORA (Russia), this study describes to what extent … individual lending mechanism - based on the experience of 130 borrowers of the Microfinance Bank of Georgia – shows that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460736
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer. The Case of the European Transition Countries and the Automotive Industry in the Czech Republic
Torlak geb. Cokoja, Elvisa - 2010
Der Technologietransfer und die sogenannten technologischen Spillover-Effekte spielen eine große Rolle bei den … eindeutig einen Technologietransfer zum Tochterunternehmen, und bekräftigt das Bild des wachsenden ausländischen Sektors und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449688
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The critical success factors for commercialising microfinance instititions in Africa
Kiweu, Josephat Mboya - 2010
suggestions. Perceptions were drawn from commerciallenders/investors of microfinance programmes based in Africa. Needless to say …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442187
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Make-buy decisions in the face of technological change: does industry clockspeed matter?
Perrons, Robert K.; Platts, Ken - 2005
Some evidence in the area of make-buy decisions for new technologies suggests that it is a good idea for a company to pursue a fairly rigorous ''make'' policy in the early days of a potentially disruptive innovation. Other studies prescribe exactly the opposite, promoting instead a ''buy''...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483248
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The impact of trade-related investment measures in developing countries
Zhang, Jian - 2003
As foreign direct investment (FDI) grows rapidly in this highly integrated world, numerous new challenges confront the …. The first essay provides background information about TRIMs agreement that are currently employed around the world. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451224
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Trade finance as a barrier to SME internationalisation: special reference to African trade with China / Y. van Heerden
Van Heerden, Yvette - 2010
Africa. By overcoming the difficulties in obtaining trade finance, African SMEs will be able to expand into foreign markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009456199
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Trade unions and the informal economy in Zambia: Building strength or loosing ground?
Heidenreich, Georg; Heidenreich, Georg - 2007
The increasing casualisation of labour forces trade unions globally to deal with a growing number of unprotected and unrepresented workers in what is dubbed by the unions, even if critically, as the informal economy. This paper assesses the impact and further potential of a direct and indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485581