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Finance for Food: Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance
Köhn, Doris (contributor) - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902375
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Equitable access to land as a means of poverty reduction in rural china
Hao, Yan - 2011
In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen from 30.7% in 1978 to 3.8% in 2009. This paper begins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308440
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Mainstreaming the adaptations and reducing the vulnerability of the poor due to climate change
Ranganathan, C. R.; Palanisami, K.; Kakumanu, K. R.; … - 2011
Many rural poor people in developing countries depend on agriculture and are highly influenced by climatic change. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction activities and modify existing activities to improve livelihood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397339
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Rural Finance and Microfinance Development in Transition Countries in Southeast and East Asia
Llanto, Gilberto M.; Fukui, Ryu - 2003
Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve … alleviation. This paper provides an overview of rural finance and microfinance development in transition countries in Southeast … banks, microfinance banks, microfinance NGOs, financial cooperatives and other indigenous financial systems - have to reach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429712
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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
Heshmati, Almas (contributor);  … - 2015
This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902394
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Poverty and Access to Microfinance with Gender Dimension
Lamberte, Mario B.; Manlagnit, Ma. Chelo V. - 2003
This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429706
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The Role of other Economically Active Household Members in Poverty Alleviation
Manlagñit, Ma. Chelo V. - 2004
This paper extends the analysis on microfinance and poverty from the household perspective by focusing on the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429723
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Extent of Asset Accumulation of the Households
Manlagñit, Ma. Chelo V. - 2004
This paper examines the extent of asset accumulation and saving of the households from the credit they obtained from community-oriented financial intermediaries (COFIs and other financial sources. In the process, this paper also investigates how the government can assist in asset development,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429726
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The Role of Micro-financing in Rural Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Juanah, Momoh - 2005
the theoretical methodology, this study has examined the role of microfinance in developing countries and has described … some measures which can enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of microfinance as an instrument for reducing rural … microfinance system operating within the appropriate legal and policy framework, the rural poor may be able to get out of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297057
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A General Equilibrium Analysis of Inflation and Microfinance in Developing Countries
Müller, Daniel - 2013
This paper analyses the welfare effects of microfinance and inflation in developing countries. Therefore, we introduce … microfinance institution induces peer monitoring, which in turn enables entrepreneurship. Our main result is that there exists an … inflation threshold beyond which entrepreneurship collapses. We show that inflation affects the impact of microfinance on social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390685