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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Microenterprise"”.
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Impact of credit on microenterprise development in Kenya
… non-governmental organization's (NGOs) loans on microenterprises in Kenya. The study also identified barriers perceived to be hindering microenterprises from growing. This was an exploratory naturalistic type of inquiry. The results were obtained through structured interviews and observations of …
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Informal microenterprise in the North End community : Springfield, MA
… economic activity, specifically informal microenterprise, present within the North End community as a means for understanding its economic reality and supporting its continued development. The study considers how Springfield's existing microenterprise service system can be modified to …
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Impact of Mobile Money Usage on Microenterprise Evidence from Zambia
… has the potential to transform the way microenterprises conduct business. Through a pilot study in Livingstone, Zambia, I examine the effect of mobile money usage on microenterprise profits. I employ an instrumental variable strategy using the type of mobile operator as the instrument to …
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The impact of gender differences in social networks on microenterprise performance
… how gender differences in social networks affect microenterprise performance. Microenterprise is defined as small-scale businesses that hire fewer than five employees, including the owner. Microenterprise development programs (MDPs), which provide capital, business training, technical support, and …
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Evaluating the impact of microenterprise credit programs on women in Bangladesh
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Investigating in entrepreneurship : a 'learning dialogue' for microenterprise in the United States
… the Aspen Institute to examine the strategy of microenterprise assistance and microcredit provision in the United States. Four program groups are analyzed: training programs that do not offer loans, lending programs that serve primarily low income individuals, lending programs that serve …
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Wise women, complex challenges : barriers to success for lower-income microentrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area
Microenterprise has recently received significant public attention and support as an economic development and poverty alleviation strategy in the United States. Considering the economic, social and professional benefits of microenterprise, self-employment will continue to be pursued by many …
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Issues in the design of microenterprise development programs : a case study of the Trinidad & Tobago Development Foundation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Issues in microenterprise employment, production and coping strategies in post-devaluation Dakar : the case of garment-making and woodworking firms
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Three essays on microenterprises and self-employment
… Does Not Fit All: Evaluating The Impact Between Microenterprise Measurement And Policy Evaluation. Microenterprise support programs (MESPs) have gained popularity as a modern development policy starting in the 1980s, with an increasing number of countries adopting this strategy to enhance …
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The Edge Connection
… organization that delivers best practices in microenterprise and business development in Metro Atlanta Area. During my internship project at The Edge Connection, I was responsible for the further development of the "Financial Edge" Economic Literacy Program. My job included providing …
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ICTs for whose development? A critical analysis of the discourses surrounding an ICT for Development Initiative for a group of microenterprise entrepreneurs operating in the Jamaican tourism industry: Towards the development of methodologies and analytical tools for understanding and explaining the ICT for Development Phenomenon
… the JSDNP Cybercentre Project for a group of microenterprise entrepreneurs in the Jamaican tourism industry to access the epistemological assumptions of this project. From the data collected it was found that at one level, the JSDNP Cybercentre Project encouraged specific ways of acting and …
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The Effects of Grameen-Model Microfinance Institutions and Self-Help Group Microfinance on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural India
… in savings, income, ownership of property or a microenterprise, and access to social services and training. I compile studies of two most common types of microfinance models used in India in order to determine if there is a general trend indicating that microfinance as a whole has a positive …
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New Economics of Venture Capitalism? Assessing the Role of Remittances on Household Entrepreneurship
… households, who often make up the majority of microenterprise owners and need capital to survive. By using household data, this study takes into account the behaviour of both formal and informal enterprises in a way that has not been assessed by previous studies. The study finds that when …
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Propuesta de mejora para la optimización de almacenes de la empresa del sector automotriz Tauro Servs S. R. L.
This research takes as an example a microenterprise in the automotive sector with problems directly related to its warehouses. Tauro Servs has more than 20 years in the market providing preventive and corrective maintenance services for light, heavy and linear vehicles. The evaluated stores to …
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Rebuilding livelihoods of the poor affected by conflict through donor-led market-based approaches: the case of Liberia
… case study-based data collected from twenty-one microenterprise groups from three diverse counties of Liberia, six years after the armed conflict. The research reveals that local context in post-conflict environments play an important role in the extent to which a market-based approach might …
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Essays on the design and targeting of financial products : evidence from field experiments in India
… limit the potential impact of microfinance on microenterprise growth and household poverty.
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No soy conformista: reassessing necessity and opportunity motivations for micro entrepreneurship in Lima, Peru
Increasingly, in the field of entrepreneurial studies, venture creation is dichotomously conceived as an activity willfully undertaken to seize a business opportunity or reluctantly performed as a last resort in the face of a weak and/or inaccessible labor market. This schema purports that an …
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