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Understanding the rural third sector: insights from Veblen and Bogdanov

Valentinov, Vladislav - In: Kybernetes 41 (2012) 1/2, pp. 177-188

Purpose: Despite the worldwide importance of third sector organizations in rural areas, the theoretical connection between the third sector and rural development remains largely unexplored. The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical explanation of why and how third sector...

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An application of principal component analysis and logistic regression to facilitate production scheduling decision support system: An automotive industry case

Mehrjoo, Saeed; Bashiri, Mahdi - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering International 9 (2013), pp. 1-12

Production planning and control (PPC) systems have to deal with rising complexity and dynamics. The complexity of planning tasks is due to some existing multiple variables and dynamic factors derived from uncertainties surrounding the PPC. Although literatures on exact scheduling algorithms,...

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Employment Choices of Persons with Disability (PWDs) in Metro Manila

Mina, Christian D. - 2010

This paper examined how PWDs in the Philippines make a living and determined the factors that influenced them to select a particular labor market status and/or a source of personal income. It also analyzed the different types of work these PWDs engage in and their association with levels of...

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Social Capital, Public Spending and the Quality of Economic Development: The Case of Italy

Sabatini, Fabio - 2006

This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and the quality of economic development in Italy. The analysis draws on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred variables representing different aspects of economic development and...

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Social Connections and Group Banking

Karlan, Dean S. - 2005

Lending to the poor is expensive due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe lenders overcome this by harnessing social connections. Using data from FINCA-Peru, I exploit a quasi-random group formation process to find evidence of peers successfully...

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Community-based health insurance and social capital: A review

Donfouet, Hermann Pierre Pythagore; Mahieu, Pierre-Alexandre - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 5, pp. 1-5

Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural...

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Loan repayment performance and its determinants: Evidence from micro and small enterprises operating in Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia

Kiros, Yitbarek Weldegerima - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 12 (2023) 1, pp. 1-9

Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) reach a large number of poor people who are not served by formal financial …) financed by Microfinance Institutions by taking lender characteristics. Primary data was collected using questionnaires and … annual reports and financial statements of Microfinance institutions and other institutions. Descriptive analysis as well as …

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Group versus individual liability: A field experiment in the Philippines

Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean S. - 2007

Group liability is often portrayed as the key innovation that led to the explosion of the microcredit movement, which grew with the Grameen Bank in the 1970s and continues on today with hundreds of institutions around the world. Group liability claims to improve repayment rates and lower...

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Microcredit with voluntary contributions and zero interest rate: Evidence from Pakistan

Mahmud, Mahreen - 2015

microfinance organization operating in Pakistan since 2001. Borrowers are encouraged to give any amount they wish to the …

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Group versus individual liability: Long term evidence from Philippine microcredit lending groups

Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - 2009

Group liability in microcredit purports to improve repayment rates through peer screening, monitoring, and enforcement. However, it may create excessive pressure, and discourage reliable clients from borrowing. Two randomized trials tested the overall effect, as well as specific mechanisms. The...

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