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The Impact of Village Saving Loan Association on Small Holder Farmers in Taiama, Kori Chiefdom, Moyamba District
Governments and nongovernmental organizations have made poverty reduction a top priority. This has resulted in the implementation of programs and...
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‘Even Though I Get a Loan, My Husband Controls It’: Rhetoric Versus Reality of Empowering Bangladeshi Women Through Microfinance Programs
This study investigates the development intervention of microfinance programs with women borrowers in strong patriarchal communities such as in rural...
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Student Loan Decision Making: Experience as an Anchor
The purpose of study is to examine the association between one's past borrowing experience and borrowing decisions in a hypothetical survey scenario....
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Bridging the gap: enhancing socio-ecological resilience by breaking the debt cycle among small-scale hilsa fishers in Bangladesh
This study examines the plight of hilsa fishers in Bangladesh, grappling with challenges such as poor market access, scant capital, and shrinking...
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Does Student Loan Debt Hinder Community Well-Being?
How the growth in student debt is impacting the well-being of the larger community is explored using U.S. county level data. Using tax return data...
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Do perceived working conditions increase life satisfaction? Case of SME workers in Bangladesh
This paper aims to examine whether the perception of precarious work indicators affects the perception of decent work in SMEs and affects employee...
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Housing Welfare, Personal Responsibility, and Morale in Hong Kong
Controversies ring about the impacts of housing welfare on people’s responsibility and morale to help themselves and others. On the one hand,...
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Does rural women’s involvement with one more microcredit organization change any psychosocial and economic conditions in their lives? A study on northern Bangladesh
The purpose of this study was to assess the psychosocial and economic aspects of rural women engaged with one more microcredit organization of...
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Input–output efficiency of the housing provident fund in China: temporal-spatial variations and influencing factors
The input–output efficiency of China’s Housing Provident Fund (HPF) program has received increasing academic attention in recent years. However, few...
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Production and Living Conditions of Migrants
In Ningxia’s ecological migration project, it is of equal importance to improve the ecosystem in places of origin and improve the living conditions...
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Power, ideas, and World Bank conditionality
How and why do the policy areas covered in World Bank loan conditions change over time and across borrowers? We hypothesize that shifts in the Bank’s...
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Reaching Financial Inclusion: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Financial inclusion is a vital development policy concern; different combinations and conditions of access to (supply) and use of (demand) financial...
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The Impact of Long-Term Finance on Job Quality, Investments and Firm Performance: Cross-Country Evidence
Despite its importance for development, long-term finance is particularly scarce in countries with lower income levels. This not only results in...
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Role of non-governmental organizations in poverty reduction in the global South: evidence from world vision Ghana, Kintampo South district
Poverty is a global issue, particularly in the Global South. This has made its reduction vital, although official efforts have yielded modest...
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Food and nutritional vulnerability of the households in Jalpaiguri District, India
We have estimated the food and nutritional security of sample households in Jalpaiguri district on the basis of primary level data. The primary data...
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Estimating the leverage condition of China’s Urban households: evidence from the housing sector
The large and increasing debt in China has attracted global concern, but there is currently little quantitative information available on the leverage...
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Quantifying the Role of Mobile Money Services to Financial Inclusion: Evidence from EVC-PLUS in Somalia
This study aims to quantify the impact of mobile money services on financial inclusion, focusing on EVC-PLUS services in Somalia. Access, quality,...
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Racial Stratification Among Latinos in the Mortgage Market
Studies of the mortgage industry’s impact on racial stratification have long focused on racial disparities found between white and black homeowners....
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Family, Housing, and Social Policy for Women of Pakistan
This chapter covers family and housing policy for women of Pakistan. The major issues are discussed with regards to women’s equality in the house,...