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Microfinance for poverty alleviation : do transnational initiatives overlook fundamental questions of competition and intermediation?

Arp, Frithjof; Ardisa, Alvin; Ardisa, Alviani - 2017

interview market participants and triangulate the perspectives of borrowers with those of formal and informal lenders …. Importantly, our research includes current and past borrowing from formal and informal sources, prompting participants to draw … unintended consequence of formal microfinance: The availability of formal low-interest microfinance creates informal …

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Microfinance for poverty alleviation : do transnational initiatives overlook fundamental questions of competition and intermediation?

Arp, Frithjof; Ardisa, Alvin; Ardisa, Alviani - In: Transnational corporations : investment and development 24 (2017) 3, pp. 103-117

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Energy Revolution and Disaster Response in the Face of Climate Change

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015

Nuclear meltdown in Japan and civil society strife across the Middle East highlight the degree to which resilience is core to international peace and security. This article considers the means by which communities can become increasingly resilient through shared best practices across a range of...

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Cooperative Federalism and Hydraulic Fracturing

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2012

This article analyzes how cooperative federalism and inclusive decision-making can provide legitimacy and transparency when balancing property rights versus police powers to regulate natural gas production

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China in Context : Energy, Water, and Climate Cooperation

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2014

Climate resilient communities can be achieved with the support of global research, development, deployment, and diffusion of environmentally sound low GHG emission technologies and processes. Technology cooperation should lower emissions remaining mindful of biodiversity, ecosystem services and...

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The Determinants of Development Projects’ First Disbursement Delay : The Case of the African Development Bank

Gohou, Gaston - 2015

International aid effectiveness has recently been significantly questioned in the development literature with regard to the large amount of aid received by developing countries to finance development projects and the mixed results achieved. However, assessment of development projects is not an...

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Should Global Rules Have Legal Teeth? Policing (Who Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) vs. Good Citizenship (Un Global Compact)

Sagafi-Nejad, Tagi - 2005

This study examines two multilateral initiatives, the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Compact. These are two efforts to engage transnational corporations in the development process and in the...

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Development of capitals and capabilities of smallholder farmers for promoting inclusive intensification in agriculture : experiences from northern West Bengal, India

Mishra, Pulak; Behera, Bhagirath; Bagchi, Niladri Sekhar; … - 2023

While policies and institutional arrangements aimed at intensification and growth of the Indian agriculture sector are inevitable for the livelihoods and food security of the country's vast population, the inclusion of land-constrained farmers especially women, therein requires certain...

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Field Notes from the Super-Storm Sandy Catastrophe

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2012

Sandy struck a strategically important city in a strategically important country within days of a strategically important election. Climate justice has many synergistic and sometimes competing dimensions. Irrespective of the degree to which climate change contributes to any given weather event,...

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Climate Change and Natural Gas Dynamic Governance

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2013

Hydraulic fracturing has been a game changer for the energy field, bringing to mind the “nothing in excess” carving at Delphi. Whether heeding ancient oracles or cutting-edge principles of calibration, I argue that dynamic governance innovation can facilitate climate-energy-water balancing...

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