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The Contribution of Grassroots Organizations in the Economic Empowerment of Communities and Individuals : Case Study of Self Help Groups of Kenya

Ochanda, Richard Muko - 2013

; their economic empowerment activities; their challenges and potential and; potential areas of improvement to strengthen … demographics, type of economic empowerment work done and challenges …

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The Limits to Common Resource Management: The Bypassed Commons or Commons without Tragedy

Kebede, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

Land, labor, indigenous knowledge and institutional resources of producers in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are …

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The Contribution of Non-Physical Resources and Strategic Household Decision-making to Environmental and Policy Risks

Mariam, Yohannes; Galaty, John; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under …

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Gender, agricultural commercialization, and collective action in Kenya

Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - 2012

With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya … negative gender implications of farmer groups can be reduced or avoided when women are group members themselves. In the poorest …

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Impact of Cooperative Societies Savings Scheme in Rural Finance: Some Evidence from Nigeria

Oluyombo, Onafowokan O. - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 11 (2013) 1, pp. 77-88

This paper examines the extent to which savings products offered by cooperative societies in some parts of Nigeria meet the financial needs of the rural dwellers. The study used the data from interviews and focus group discussions from randomly selected members of cooperative societies in six...

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Individual social capital and migration

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Rupasingha, Anil - 2018

This paper determines how individual, relative to community, social capital affects individual migration decisions. We make use of nonpublic data from the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey to predict multidimensional social capital for observations in the Current Population Survey. We...

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In-migration and dilution of community social capital

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Rupasingha, Anil - 2018

Consistent with predictions from the literature, we find that higher levels of in-migration dilute multiple dimensions of a community's level of social capital. The analysis employs a 2SLS methodology to account for potential endogeneity of migration.

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Social capital at the outburst of the economic crisis in Greece, 2008-2010

Daskalopoulou, Irene - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 9 (2016) 2, pp. 79-86

empowerment, democratization and increased civil participation levels. …

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Group versus individual liability: A field experiment in the Philippines

Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean S. - 2007

Group liability is often portrayed as the key innovation that led to the explosion of the microcredit movement, which grew with the Grameen Bank in the 1970s and continues on today with hundreds of institutions around the world. Group liability claims to improve repayment rates and lower...

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Riots and social capital in urban India

Aghajanian, Alia; Justino, Patricia; Tranchant, Jean-Pierre - 2020

This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset collected by the authors in the state of Maharashtra. The analysis applies a random-effect model with lagged covariates to estimate the exogenous effect of riots on...

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