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(Sage Publications, 2015-07)Microfinance, in simple terms, can be defined as financial services for the poor. Currently, the policy-makers all over the globe are increasing their emphasis on microfinance. At this point of time, considering the energy ...
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4. Information and Communication Technology in Microfinance Sector: Case Study of Three Indian MFIs (Sage Publications, 2015-07)Financial sector has witnessed transformation with the adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) in providing financial services that ensured financial services to distant customers and reduced cost of ...
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(Sage Publications, 2015-07)Increasing Indian population, migration from neighbouring countries as well as numerous variants of identity cards like ration card, voter ID card forced Government of India to form ‘Unique Identification Authority of India ...
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(Sage Publications, 2015-07)Ecotourism is a type of sustainable tourism that aims at conservation of the environment through development of the indigenous communities. Development of the communities not only refers to economic development, but also ...
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(Sage Publications, 2015-07)In this note we provide an economist’s perspective on self-sabotage in contests. When such self-sabotage is engineered at the behest of a third party for financial gains from betting markets, we see the twin problems of ...
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(Sage Publications, 2015-07)We analyze the relationship between a ‘weak judiciary’, as measured by the percentage of pending trials, and the propensity to engage in criminal activities. Using state-level panel data for India from 1995 to 2007, we ...
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(Sage Publications, 2015-07)To alleviate poverty and unemployment in villages and to include rural India under a structured financial system, the government, through institutions like National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, has been ...
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(Sage Publications, 2015-07)Given the severity of natural resources’ degradation and the imminent threat to ecological security, various alternatives have been explored for the sustainable management of these resources. One such alternative includes ...
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(Sage Publications, 2015-07)Repayment schedules characterizing a typical micro loan are rigid and offer little to no flexibility in terms of rescheduling repayments when faced with emerging contingencies. Such rigid structures affect the economic as ...
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(Sage Publications, 2015-07)Economy is a popular subject of conversation. In a typical conversation like that, the greater scope of the discipline of economics is often reduced to public policy and macroeconomics domain of this subject. This may give ...