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Informal finance in the informal economy : promoting decent work among the working poor
Aliber, Michael - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Based mainly on a comparative study of informal finance in Uganda and India in 2001. Investigates sources of finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967221
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HIV epidemic and other crisis response in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cohen, Desmond - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2002
Outlines the scale of the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa and shows how the epidemic should be seen as a structural phenomenon which affects all aspects of development in the region. Examines the interconnections between armed conflicts and other crises and the HIV epidemic and reviews the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967447
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Uganda's microfinance policy regime: An exploratio through a political-economy framework
Schmidt, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In 2005, Uganda’ government fundamentally shifted the direction of its microfinance (MF) policy. Hitherto it had … direction served the objectives of Uganda’s politicians to maintain political power, as it offered them an avenue to create …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260487
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Allocating Cash Savings and the Role of Information: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda
Buehren, Niklas - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011
Microfinance in general and microcredit programs in particular have attracted much attention among interest groups … the unbanked poor. Along these lines, the Saving Mobilization program implemented by BRAC in Uganda is an attempt to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226876
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Enabling Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Davis, Susan - In: Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7 (2012) 2, pp. 3-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010835667
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IMPACT OF INVESTMENT IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON PERFORMANCE AND GROWTH OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN UGANDA
MUSA, Moya; AKODO, Robinah; MUKOOZA, Monica; KALIBA, … - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 12 (2012) 2
microfinance institution in Uganda. Performance is measured as a change in total factor productivity and growth as change in scale … selecting optimal input-mix and investment in information and communication technology by microfinance institutions in Uganda …. This will ensure providing service at lower cost and sustainability and microfinance institutions in Uganda. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674785
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Developing financial institutions in conflict affected countries : emerging issues, first lessons learnt and challenges ahead.
Nagarajan, Geetha - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1997
microfinance programmes in countries emerging from armed conflict with particular reference to Cambodia, El Salvador, Mozambique … and Uganda. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681373
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Islamic banks and conventional banks within the recent global financial crisis: empirical evidence from the GCC region
Kolsi, Mohamed Chakib; Zehri, Fatma - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 7 (2014) 3/4, pp. 196-218
The current global financial crisis has revealed many failures of the conventional banking system. However, this context of turbulences has presented the Islamic banking system with a great opportunity to introduce its fundamental methods and principles inspired from the Islamic Shariah law. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944801
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Derivatives in Islamic finance: the need and mechanisms available
Rizvi, Syed Aun R.; Arshad, Shaista; Lahsasna, Ahcene - In: International Journal of Financial Services Management 7 (2014) 3/4, pp. 177-195
The research is an attempt to have an overview of the need for derivatives and their possible role in Islamic finance, stressing on the Shariah qualification and prohibitions on the controversial conventional derivative products. This research focuses on the derivative products and their role in...
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Islamic banking and economic growth: the Indonesian experience
Abduh, Muhamad; Omar, Mohd Azmi - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 5 (2012) April, pp. 35-47
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the short-run and the long-run relationships between Islamic banking development and economic growth in the case of Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach – Using quarterly data (2003:1-2010:2), this paper utilizes the bound testing approach...
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