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housing finance for the urban poor in Tanzania, the case study strategy was applied, with five sub‐cases, which form the … stringent conditions; the MFIs that are growing in numbers in Tanzania and other developing countries have been their …, housing improvement and poverty alleviation among the urban poor in informal housing settlement. Practical implications – WAT …
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' (CBEs') impacts on poverty reduction at the household level in northern Thailand, in the context of the UN Millennium … and other factors on household poverty. Findings – The framework captures a number of qualitative and quantitative aspects … Development Goals. The focus is on the use of principal component analysis to develop a context‐specific definition of poverty …
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Purpose This study aims to examine the determinants of poverty among microcredit beneficiaries in Pakistan Poverty … Poverty Alleviation Fund. Using the national poverty line, this study classified borrowers into the poor and the non-poor. A … Tobit model was estimated to examine the determinants of poverty among the borrowers. Findings The model was found to fit …
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/actual “poverty tours”, the article argues that while Antigua NGOs develop and host these poverty tours as a means of moving “hearts …
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Is it politically feasible for governments to engineer endogenous growth? This paper illustrates two reasonable political decision mechanisms by which fiscal policy generates endogenous growth with a single accumulable factor, and a constant returns to scale production technology without...
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This paper deals with public investment in High-Speed Rail (HSR) infrastructure and tries to understand the economic rationale for allocating public money to the construction of new HSR lines. The examination of data on costs and demand shows that the case for investing in HSR requires several...
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Zusammenfassung Im Beitrag wird gezeigt, dass die Kreditfinanzierung öffentlicher Investitionen mittel- und langfristig den Nachteil hoher, am Marktzins orientierter Opportunitätskosten aufweist. Im Rahmen der Steuerfinanzierung konvergieren die Opportunitätskosten öffentlicher Investitionen...
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Purpose – Federal systems are often more sophisticated than assumed in the literature. In many cases, at least three tiers of government are involved in federal decision making. The purpose of this paper is to cast some light on this increasingly important issue in fiscal federalism....
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate, both theoretically and empirically, the institutional setting of monetary policy making that mitigates the effects of productive public investment on inflation persistence. Design/methodology/approach In the theoretical approach, the authors...
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