[PDF] Top 20 When Small is Big: Microcredit and Economic Development

... proach, is the “waterfall model,” then we propose that the new, distributed, flatter, network-based approach should be con- sidered an “oasis ...model is incredibly flat and efficient, with little or ... See full document

... independent economic activities involving a reduced volume of resources, ranging from traveling salesperson to a small store with few employees, and including any business between these ...are ... See full document

... which is one of the causes of insufficient competitiveness of enterprises from these countries and significant regional disproportions, which, on the other hand, lead to hampering overall ... See full document

... for Economic Policy Research, environmental degradation requires major investments in its protection to ensure sustainable ...relatively small compared to global income. The key issue is the desire ... See full document

... concerning Microcredit initiatives, its importance in fighting poverty alleviation is ...it is suggested that a development Venture Capital (VC) project, meaning both organized VC and a ... See full document

... capita and the human ...regulation, and the effect of civil rights. According to Akcigit and Kerr (2012), Aghion et ...(2013b) and others authors, the property rights would increase the ... See full document

... for and in terms of the risks ...to development banks supposes that the directors of these institutions are capable of determining autonomously the profile of acquired assets in relation both to return ... See full document

... For punching shear design, formulations of the NBR 6118: 2007 standard that was in efect until April 2014, do not consider the con- crete compression in the slab plane, due to prestressing. Just the inclined component of ... See full document

... research is characterized as quantitative (Richardson, 1999) on a case study (Roesch, 2007), in which the subject was a microcredit agency in the State of Minas Gerais, ...it is an institution ... See full document

... Korea, and Taiwan have all achieved exceptionally high rates of growth over the past 30-40 ...human development in these economies, bringing them to levels similar to those of the advanced industrialized ... See full document

... paper is also related to the body of literature that studies cross-country income differences and human capital (Klenow and Bils, 2000, Erosa et ...Córdoba and Ripoll, 2013, Restuccia ... See full document

... Chong is with the International Business School Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China (phone: +86(0)512 8816 1717; fax: +86 (0)512 8816 1730 e-mail: ... See full document

... Розвиток ринкових стосунків у будь-якому секторі економіки створює певні соціально-економічні переду- мови для формування і розвитку конкурентної діяль- ності господарюючих суб'єк[r] ... See full document

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... history and physical examination often have to be complemented with laboratory ...morbidities, and allergens from different sources may be involved. This is especially complex when perennial ... See full document

... A small pond “Kosin ův rybník” (faunistic square of the mapping grid system: 5861c) is situated between towns of Hradec Králové and ...Unusually big specimens of Duck (or Common Pond) Mussel, ... See full document

... framework is that we here compute a small scale analysis es- timate at locations where observations are available, rather than at every coarse grid ... See full document

... discussion and to put the student in the shoes of the protagonist to let him understand the constant duality of roles that any family member working in a family business must face (Memili, Chang, Kellermanns, ... See full document

... Human Development in Brazil, issued by the United Nations Development Programme, all Brazilian states in the North region were classified as being in the low human development indexes interval in ... See full document

... Bertoleza and Romão reinforces the cen- tral theme of improvement of the Brazilian race during the ...suffering and humiliation, she stayed in her “dark condition of a working ...bright and clear ... See full document