This paper presents and applies a conceptual framework to address human vulnerability to climate change. Drawing upon social risk management and asset-based approaches, the conceptual framework provides a unifying lens to examine links between risks, adaptation, and vulnerability. The result is...

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to experimentally measure trust and study its relationship to group loan allocation within a community bank. Design/methodology/approach: An artefactual field experiment is run to capture a measure of trust that mimics aspects of trusting behavior in a...

The overall objective of this paper is to develop an appropriate conceptual and analytical framework to better understand how prospects for growth and poverty reduction can be stimulated in rural Honduras. We employ complementary quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, driven by an...