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"Africa faces several major development challenges that have adversely affected the political and material well being of the majority of the continent's citizens. This collection of new essays rigorously analyzes some of those frontier development issues, and offers alternative prescriptions to...
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Part I: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 1: Unleashing Potential: The Transformative Power of Financial Inclusion in Fostering Sustainable Rural Development -- Part II: Food Insecurity, Resilience and Health -- Chapter 2: The Discouraged Borrower Syndrome and Rural Household Food Insecurity:...
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The rapid adoption of mobile money transfer (MMT) in East Africa, and Kenya in particular, is facilitating a nexus of inter-personal financial transfers which has hitherto been the least visible dimension of informal finance. At the same time, the success of capturing these flows into a formal...
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This paper is concerned with the recent history of microfinance, both for itself and as a case study of the evolution … applauded the successes of microfinance in expanding financial market opportunities; and a political economy critique that … India, before turning to the potential for a more inductive and plural account. A more plural history of microfinance …
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Policy emphasis for financial sector development has shifted away from microfinance and towards the development of …
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