For several decades, development theorists, planners and policy makers have experimented extensively with poverty reduction strategies to arrive at some kind of a consensus on the essential elements of such strategies. The World Bank’s recent World Development Report 2000/2001, Attacking Poverty provides an example of a consensus view that identifies poverty as the consequence of lack of access...

Women and youth are major victims of poverty caused by deprivation. Both group members of population lack access to land, physical capital assets, human capital, and participation in decision processes in the family and community levels. Their engagement in MSSEs as a means of escaping from the trap of poverty can be empowered by access to improved services of GSM and supply of financial capita...

In this paper, the nominal wage equation of a Core-Periphery model of New Economic Geography is derived. In order to show empirical evidence of the resulting hypothesis, the nominal wage equation is estimated for the Spanish provinces in the year 2003. Our results illustrate that the market access variable is statistically significant and quantitatively important in the explanation of the spati...

Title of Document: THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ROLE OF IT IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: CROWDFUNDING AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY Keongtae Kim, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Associate Professor Il-Horn Hann Department of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies Associate Professor Siva Viswanathan Department of Decision, Operations and Information T...

An Online Community (OC) is an IT-based social space where people are connected and access various resources during virtual social interaction. Previous IS research reveals that social capital can be a salient determinant of user participation and contribution to OCs. However, most such research assumes that social capital is given and has been built; limited attention has been paid on how soci...

A strong theoretical argument for focusing on access to finance is that financial market imperfections can result in large inefficiencies, with firms with productive investment opportunities underinvesting. Lack of access to finance is a frequent complaint of microenterprises, which account for a large share of employment in developing countries. However, assessing the extent to which a lack of...

The aim of this empirical study is to explore the trade-off model and pecking order model of capital structure. The investigation is performed using panel data procedures for a sample of 76 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange during 2007-2010.The study employs OLS regression model in examining the capital structure of firms in Iran. The study employs variables reflecting differing theoretical...

Improvement of life quality is a general aim of all developmental programs all over the world. So that, It  is  an  important  issue  that has  been  studied  by  socialists  and  even  psychologists. Social capital is the social aspect that consists of trust, a norm for regulating the relation among members, and network, which can increase mental health and can be used as the access to health ...