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Contesting 'ethicality': Ethical trade, gender and sustainable livelihoods for smallholder farmers in Kenya
Kiah Smith - 2011
of Southern women smallholders, most do not. It is argued here that multiple understandings or meanings of social justice …. Through a qualitative and participatory case study of smallholder subsistence and French bean farming in Machakos, Kenya, this … thesis asks: How do women smallholders construct ‘ethicality’ in their food networks in relation to sustainable livelihoods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448348
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446108
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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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Determinants of coordination and supply chain performance : The case of fresh milk supply chains in Kenya
Eliud Abucheli Birachi - 2006
in two districts in Kenya between May 2005 and September 2005. Multinomial logit models and ordered probit models were …, Household Model, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Ordered Logistic Regression, Kenya. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429032
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Financial contracts on electricity in the Nordic power market
Kispert, Wolfgang - 2005
Already before the EU Directive 96/92/EG was passed in 1996, some countries in the EU had started their liberalisation process for energy markets. So, in 1991, Norway established a national power market that in 1996 turned into the multinational power exchange Nord Pool, including all Nordic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475314
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Pennsylvania heating oil and propane price survey, 1993--1994 heating season. Final report
Fletcher, R.A. - 2008
The State Heating Oil and Propane Price (SHOPP) survey for the 1993--1994 heating season was conducted by the Pennsylvania Energy Office (PEO) in conjunction with the US Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (DOE/EIA). The objective of the program was to collect price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435437
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An analysis of US propane markets, winter 1996-1997
2009
In late summer 1996, in response to relatively low inventory levels and tight world oil markets, prices for crude oil, natural gas, and products derived from both began to increase rapidly ahead of the winter heating season. Various government and private sector forecasts indicated the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435595
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Motor gasoline assessment, Spring 1997
2009
The springs of 1996 and 1997 provide an excellent example of contrasting gasoline market dynamics. In spring 1996, tightening crude oil markets pushed up gasoline prices sharply, adding to the normal seasonal gasoline price increases; however, in spring 1997, crude oil markets loosened and crude...
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