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Purpose – The objective of the paper is to examine the profile and determinants of urban poverty in the two largest … cities in Vietnam – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. The paper also investigates the dynamic aspect of urban poverty in Vietnam. Design …/methodology/approach – The authors use regression and data from the 2009 Urban Poverty Survey to examine the determinants of poverty in Vietnam …
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/actual “poverty tours”, the article argues that while Antigua NGOs develop and host these poverty tours as a means of moving “hearts …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate causal link between social capital and microfinance by testing the role of social capital in explaining the household's access to microcredit under the group‐based lending approach. Design/methodology/approach – Household level primary data...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of microcredit on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh using the latest primary data. Design/methodology/approach Primary data have been collected by a household survey in the four districts of Bangladesh. Logistic regression is...
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This article takes a critical view at the process of economic change and transformation in Poland since 1989. Its … and infrastructure lapses, and inflation. It concludes with possible suggestions for Poland's future as a full member of …
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Abstract We provide an empirical study analysing the distribution of EU funds among 2478 Polish municipalities in the period 2007–2011. EU funds are found to be concentrated in smaller municipalities and economically weak sub-regions, and do not increase in the municipalities’ fiscal...
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contiguous yet often-diverging countries, namely Germany and Poland. We utilise two approaches to examine this issue, first … supported by an econometric analysis of the drivers of rule of law in both Poland and Germany, which shows the importance of …
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policymakers in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic (and selected follow‐up interviews were conducted in …
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36 participants were conducted in Poland and Canada. Focus group data were transcribed and analysed. Findings – Three …
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) associated with intra‐industry trade (IIT). The structure of trade expansion in Hungary and Poland over the period 1990‐1998 and … for Poland. However, the effects of IIT on employment changes are small especially to additional hypotheses. The … estimations show that partial trade liberalisation in Hungary and Poland has led to lower adjustment costs. Originality …
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