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- Small and micro-enterprise in Sri Lanka: bringing the bankers to the people
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The indigenous informal credit market within Sri Lanka encompasses a wide range of financial arrangements, including: direct money-lending (professional and semi-professional money-lenders); indirect money-lending (trade financing, commission agencies, an ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Can Business Development Services practitioners learn from theories on innovation and services marketing?
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Business Development Services (BDS) programmes have become big business for international donors and NGOs. Focusing on small enterprises in developing countries, the current BDS approach revolves around the idea that the development of commercial markets ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Learning from informal markets: innovative approaches to land and housing provision
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Full-text sample article FREE from Taylor & Francis. Sub-standard and insecure housing conditions are recognised as a crucial aspect of urban poverty. In most large cities in the developing world, the formal market serves only a minority of the populat ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:07
- Representing labour in India
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Trade unions in India work mainly with workers in formal employment, particularly in the public sector. However, most people in India work in the informal economy, and their needs are attended mainly by voluntary agencies or NGOs. Economic globalisation a ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10
- Evolving Land Rights, Policy and Tenure in Africa
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Author: Toulmin, Camilla and Julian Quan (eds.) Issue: ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-07 13:19
- Where Credit Is Due: Income Generating Programmes for the Poor in Developing Countries
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Author: Remenyi, Joe Issue: Volume 1, Number ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-10 09:24
- Food crisis, small-scale farmers, and markets in the Andes
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In the Andean region, national policy responses to the 2007–08 food-price crisis emphasised reducing pressures on consumers, and particularly on urban populations. In Bolivia, the prices of all domestic and imported food tubers and grains rose dra ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:37
- Collective action and promotion of forest based associations on non-wood forest products in Cameroon
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This paper documents collective actions undertaken by forest-based associations to access better prices for their non-wood forest products via group sales. Group sales can increase the income of group sellers by up to 40 per cent compared to individual ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-11-27 12:52
