Sökning: "Microcredit"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Microcredit.
1. A Genealogy of Governing Economic Behaviour : Small-scale credit in Malawi 1930–2010
Sammanfattning : In this thesis the aim has been to analyse changes and continuity in the governing of economic behaviour in small-scale credit schemes in colonial Nyasaland and independent Malawi from 1930 until 2010. Furthermore, how the effects of history in terms of how colonial and post-colonial development discourses and practices have been rephrased and reused in the early 21st century are discussed. LÄS MER
2. Sustainable policy for energy, land and natural resources
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four papers which are related to critical natural resource issues from a developing and emerging country perspective. All four papers demonstrate the importance of financial incentives in driving behaviour and investments. LÄS MER
3. Changing the risk at the margin : Smallholder farming and public policy in developing countries
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of a summary and four self-contained papers. Paper [I] examines whether the implementation of a social safety net programme in Ethiopia has affected the value, risk and composition of farmers‟ crop portfolios. LÄS MER
4. Millennium Development Goals in Nicaragua : Analysing progress, social inequalities, and community actions
Sammanfattning : The world has made important efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015. However, it is still insufficient and inequalities prevail in the poorest settings. LÄS MER
5. Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups
Sammanfattning : Bangladesh is one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. In spite of political turmoil, frequent natural disasters and widespread corruption it has, in less than four decades after its birth as an independent state, gained visible success in human development - especially the education of women and girls, family planning and health, and microcredit to the poor. LÄS MER