This article addresses anthropology's engagement with the emerging discipline of global health. We develop a definition for global health and then present four principal contributions of anthropology to global health: (a) ethnographic studies of health inequities in political and economic...

The paper investigates the missing link in the literature – whether informal institutions, or what is known as culture, can affect the level of financial development for a country? Our hypothesis stresses that the cultural dimensions of a country can have an impact on its financial set up. We...

Attempts to accelerate economic growth in less developed areas have met with little success, partly because economic theory deals with short-run analysis and because the effects of culture cannot be quantified. The study seeks to understand the importance of cultural factors in explaining the...

The paper investigates the missing link in the literature – whether informal institutions, or what is known as culture, can affect the level of financial development for a country? Our hypothesis stresses that the cultural dimensions of a country can have an impact on its financial set up. We...

Microfinance sector is highly international and culturally diverse. While an increasing body of literature examines the relationship of national culture with the country's economic performance, innovation performance and firm performance, research on the influence of national culture on the...