This paper introduces a special issue of the journal Bioethics devoted to the exploration of the role of solidarity in … health. Papers in the special issue include Solidarity in Contemporary Bioethics – Towards a New Approach by Barbara … Prainsack and Alena Buyx; A Dialectic of Cooperation and Competition: Solidarity and Universal Health Care Provision by Samuel …

This article interrogates the methodological lenses through which law in the Third World is commonly analyzed in socio …-legal studies. Third World socio-legal studies, this article argues, is a field in search of philosophical foundations. It continues … histories of Western capitalist societies, which it extends uncritically to different inter-subjective orders in Third World …

Women are universally considered good microfinance clients. The reason behind this is a popular belief in the … microfinance industry that women are better credit risks than men. Female targeting has been suggested to generate higher repayment … mixed results. Moreover, high repayment rates do not always warrant profitability for microfinance institutions (MFIs). An …