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Designing financial products that support rural livelihoods : making microfinance work for the poor
Naab, Gilbert Zana; Arora, Rashmi Umesh; Anand, … - In: Entrepreneurial financial resilience and financial …, (pp. 155-189). 2023
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Rural classes and credit participation : the Itasy livelihood classes (Madagascar) between risk-aversion and debt capacity
Andrianampiarivo, Tsiry; Gondard-Delcroix, Claire - In: Oxford development studies 51 (2023) 1, pp. 18-32
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The impact of financial inclusion on the livelihoods of rural smallholder farmers in Nigeria
Adegbite, Olayinka O.; Machethe, Charles L. - In: African finance journal 24 (2022) 2, pp. 38-50
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Transforming informal work and livelihoods in China
Lin, Carl Shu-Ming; Ye, Linxiang; Zhang, Wei - 2020
them switch to better-paying jobs in the formal sector. But evidence of this is limited. China constitutes an important … 2018, we study how the livelihoods of Chinese workers change when transitioning to different work statuses within or … the self-employed to the wage-employed increases earnings, which improves the livelihoods of Chinese workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424137
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Transforming informal work and livelihoods in China
Lin, Carl Shu-Ming; Ye, Linxiang; Zhang, Wei - 2020
them switch to better-paying jobs in the formal sector. But evidence of this is limited. China constitutes an important … 2018, we study how the livelihoods of Chinese workers change when transitioning to different work statuses within or … the self-employed to the wage-employed increases earnings, which improves the livelihoods of Chinese workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321066
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Multi-scalar pathways to smallholder adaptation
Burnham, Morey; Ma, Zhao - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 108 (2018), pp. 249-262
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Explaining heterogeneous afforestation outcomes : how community officials and households mediate tree cover change in China
Zinda, John Aloysius; Zhang, Zhiming - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 122 (2019), pp. 385-398
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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China
Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2004
Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper examines three phases of development since the foundation of the People's Republic: the central planning era (1949 -1978); the pro-urban growth model (1978 - 1999); and more...
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?
Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focus here is on the smaller countries emerging from civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543096
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Sustainability of Forests Created by China's Sloping Land Conversion Program: A comparison among three sites in Anhui, Hubei and Shanxi
Song, Conghe; Zhang, Yulong; Mei, Ying; Liu, Hua; … - In: Forest Policy and Economics 38 (2014) C, pp. 161-167
China implemented the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) during 2001–2010, which led to the conversion of millions … on the livelihoods of the participating farmers based on data collected from household surveys in Anhui, Hubei, and … associated with minor improvements in the livelihoods for a majority of participating farmers, and offers a significant safety …
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