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Investigating causal relationship between social capital and microfinance: Implications for rural development

Akram, Sohail; Routray, Jayant Kumar - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) July, pp. 760-776

and microfinance. This study is the first of its kind in Pakistan and hopefully will contribute to the limited knowledge …Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate causal link between social capital and microfinance by testing the …/methodology/approach – Household level primary data was collected from a rural district of Pakistan. Principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to …

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The Role of Affordable Mortgages in Improving Living Standards and Stimulating Growth; A Survey of Selected Mena Countries

Nothaft, Frank E.; Erbas, S. Nuri - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper argues that making affordable home mortgage loans available to a large cross section of the population will serve both the redistributive and growth-enhancing objectives of poverty reduction policies. The current state of housing and mortgage markets in selected Middle East and North...

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Multicriteria analysis for grouping and ranking European Union rural areas based on social sustainability indicators

Chatzinikolaou, Parthena; Bournaris, Thomas; Manos, Basil - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 16 (2013) 3/4, pp. 335-351

Social sustainability is 'one of the three legs of the sustainability stool' (the other two are environmental and economic). There is limited literature that focuses on social sustainability to the extent that a comprehensive study of this concept is still missing. As a result, there have been...

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Honduras; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Progress Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

The paper reports the progress of the Honduran poverty reduction strategy program, projects, and policy measures. The report provides details on the organization and results of the consultation process, and analyzes the macroeconomic framework for the poverty reduction strategy. An overview of...

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

Mina, Christian D. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 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 as social networks. A new framework for measurement

Sabatini, Fabio - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia - 2005

The contribution of this paper to the social capital literature is twofold. Drawing on the Italian data, it firstly develops a new framework for measurement, allowing to build indicators for five different components of the multidimensional concept of social capital. Secondly, it provides a...

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Does Social Capital Have a Role in Environmental Kuznets Curve? Spatial Panel Regression Approach

Paudel, Krishna P.; Zapata, Hector O.; Schafer, Mark J.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

We advance a case for an inclusion of social capital in the environmental Kuznets curve analysis using highly disaggregated data on water pollution in Louisiana. A social capital index and other variables are used in parametric and spatial panel regression models to explain water pollution dynamics.

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Measuring Social Capital in Italy: An Exploratory Analysis

Sabatini, Fabio - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2005

The aim of this paper is to trace a map of Italian local social capital endowments. It focuses on the structuraldimension of the concept, as identified with social networks. The analysis is based on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred indicators of five main social...

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

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

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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Measuring Social Capital in Italy. An Exploratory Analysis

Sabatini, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

The aim of this paper is to trace a map of Italian local social capital endowments. It focuses on the “structural” dimension of the concept, as identified with social networks. The analysis is based on a dataset collected by the author including about two hundred indicators of five main...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407641

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