In this paper we address the impact, viability, and efficacy of microfinance on Pulperías (in-home convenience stores), a sector that comprises up to one-third of the microfinance loan market in Central America, in a single research locale. Numerous and extensive in-person surveying (N=279)...

This research explores the competitive environment for urban formal sector firms competing against peer formal sector firms behaving informally in Central America. Explored is the upper bound of the formal-informal continuum in a regional economic environment of persistent and widespread...

In this article, we seek to classify the national culture of Belize through the typologies offered by Geert Hofstede (1980) and Edward T. Hall (1960). The classification allows comparative use of existing cultural data for most other nations and world regions important in navigating cultural...