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We provide new micro evidence on the discussion about the relationship between financial development and welfare. Relying on the concept of local financial development our analysis focuses on three dimensions of household welfare: vulnerability to poverty, investment, and consumption smoothing....
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financial institutions. We find, first, that village funds reach the target groups of lower income households better than …This paper examines the contribution of recently introduced village funds in rural Thailand, one of the largest … microfinance programs ever implemented. We use a cross-sectional approach examining village funds in relation to competing …
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The ex ante theory of collateral states that better informed lenders, such as informal lenders, rely less on collateral. We test this by contrasting the use of collateral between formal and informal lenders in the same market. Indeed, formal lenders rely more often on collateral, controlling for...
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relating to income on a national level. Polish GDP per capita (in PPP terms) increased from 49% of European Union average in … does not spread out proportionally on all regions and income convergence is not observed. Instead, the relatively fastest … purpose of the research is to analyze the relationship between the local convergence of income and educational achievements on …
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problems by analysing the configuration of intercity connection patterns in China to provide new evidence to the applications … by months by city-pairs throughout China by months involves many potential stages of big data mining analysis. We …
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This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...
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The digital divide can be determined by the gap between those people who are literate and have access to various information resources (such as the Internet) and those who do not have access to them.The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the digital vulnerability of many rural citizens. Through this...
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The financing of the Romanian agriculture and rural space through the SAPARD program created the technical and financial premises necessary for the process of accession to the European structures. Thus, the funds developed through the SAPARD Agency have directly contributed to the economic and...
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The objective of this paper is to evaluate the long-run regional impacts of tariff policy of the Brazilian electric power sector. The structural reforms carried on this sector determined the emergence of two different spatial distribution trends of the electric power tariffs among the Brazilian...
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The main aim of this paper is to enhance our knowledge of the role of regional entrepreneurial culture that is important to foster economic growth. The paper sheds light on regional differences of self-employment and start-up activities in a socialist and post-socialist economy, which is to the...
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