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Chapter 71. Access to Finance
Karlan, Dean; Morduch, Jonathan - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4703-4784). 2010
quality of financial access. They are taking possibilities well beyond early models centered on providing microcredit for …
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Declining trust in growing China : a dilemma between growth and socio-economic damage
Dai, Shuanping; Elsner, Wolfram - 2015
Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …
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Chapter 23. Labor and Credit Networks in Developing Economies
Munshi, Kaivan - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 1223-1254). 2011
The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the economic analysis of networks. This chapter is concerned with the role played by labor and credit networks in shaping economic activity in developing countries. The problem of identifying network effects on economic outcomes is first...
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Chapter 10. Civic Capital as the Missing Link
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 417-480). 2011
This chapter reviews the recent debate about the role of social capital in economics. We argue that all the difficulties this concept has encountered in economics are due to a vague and excessively broad definition. For this reason, we restrict social capital to the set of values and beliefs...
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Role of social capital and financial inclusion in sustainable economic growth
Huang, Siqi; Cheng, Manli; Shu, Zhenzhu - In: Research in international business and finance 72 (2024) 1, pp. 1-13
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Microfinance: where are we today and where should the research go in the future?
Chen, Juanyi; Chang, Amber Y.; Bruton, Garry D. - In: International small business journal : researching … 35 (2017) 7, pp. 793-802
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An evolutionary view on social innovation and the process of economic change
Reinstaller, Andreas - 2013
The concepts social innovation and social entrepreneurship have gained considerable attention both in different fields of academic research and in the context of the development of economic and social policies. However, despite its wide-spread use there does not exist a unique or at least widely...
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The middle income plateau : trap or springboard?
Gönenç, Rauf - 2017
The mixed growth performance of emerging market economies has revived angst about a "middle-income trap". However, a forensic review of statistical evidence shows that middle-income countries “escape” to higher income levels more often than both poorer and richer countries. At the same time,...
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Institutions and development : a view from below
Pande, Rohini; Udry, Christopher - 2005
In this paper we argue the case for greater exploitation of synergies between research on specific institutions based on micro-data and the big questions posed by the institutions and growth literature. To date, the macroeconomic literature on institutions and growth has largely relied on...
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Firms, informality and development : theory and evidence from Brazil
Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2014
This paper develops and estimates an equilibrium model where heterogeneous firms can exploit two margins of informality: (i) not register their business, the extensive margin; and (ii) hire workers "off the books", the intensive margin. The model encompasses the main competing frameworks for...
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