Having access to credit is essential for households to address the volatility of their personal finances over time and for firms to fund their investments. Accessing financial services at affordable cost on the other hand, is crucial to ensure financial security of all economic units. Despite...

Adolescent girls need to be considered as a special target group by schemes and development programmes. They need a package of services / facilities, which will enhance their capacity for advancement and enable them to become capable citizens

In this paper we contribute to the literature by examining if confidence, beliefs about competitor, willingness to compete and performance of individuals in a real-effort task are conditioned on the relative economic status of their potential competitor. We conduct our study among 1025...