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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between commercial bank lending terms, financial literacy and access to formal credit by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – In this cross-sectional study, the authors surveyed 384 business...
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emphasis on morality and spirituality, the author thinks that the current Human Development Index (HDI) does not capture human … development from an Islamic perspective. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to provide a paradigmatic, theoretical, and … differed from those in cHDI. The difference was more substantial for countries with higher economic development. Thus, improved …
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into the development of TFP in Mongolia. Simulations are performed to see what happens with TFP if not the le! ast …
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companies in the region in the long run. However, the counterparts cannot be missed either as they account for a relatively high …
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"Evidence-based medicine” approaches began to be formalized in the early 1990s to promote a conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in decision-making on care for individual patients. These approaches were subsequently extended to other spheres of public decision...
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-Saharan African countries. Workers’ Remittances seem to affect the economic development of recipient countries in the same way as … Official Development Aid and Foreign Direct Investment. To achieve this objective, we use the fixed effects panel regression … allocate a substantial percentage of the fruits derived from this growth to investment in the development of human capital …
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development? This debate has recently taken a fresh turn with the apparent emergence of the “New Economy” in the U.S. The U.S. has …
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a brief recounting of the history of the CHAs and how they were established, as well as a basic typology of CHAs … according to three (highly stylized) conceptual stages of their development. This is followed by a discussion of some of the …
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’ in its current state has the shortcoming of modeling corruption as a direct effect of development assistance. This note …’s consumption expenditure increases corruption. (2) Development assistance channeled via private investment and tax effort decreases …
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development matter in the impact of aid on development. In substance its object is to assess if threshold development conditions … technique enables us to investigate if the relationship between development dynamics and development assistance differs … throughout the distributions of development dynamics. Findings – Two main findings are established. (1) The effectiveness of aid …
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