Structural adjustment, as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF and World Bank, reduces the growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but I find no evidence for a direct effect of structural adjustment on growth. Instead, the poor benefit less from output expansion in countries with many adjustment loans than in countries with few adjustment loans. By...

On the example of a commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Tanzania this paper investigates first whether agricultural firms have a different probability to get a loan and whether their loans are differently volume rationed than loans to non-agricultural firms. Second, we analyze whether agricultural firms repay their loans with different delinquencies than non-agricultural firms. Our res...

This study aims to analyse whether library loan statistics can be used as a measure of monograph use and as a selection criterion for inclusion in citation indexes. For this, we conducted an exploratory study based on loan data (1000 most borrowed monographs) from two non-Anglo-Saxon European university libraries (Granada and Vienna) with strong social sciences and humanities components. Loans ...

The purpose of this paper is to present some results about the determinants of book-loans from local public libraries in Norway. The investigation is based on quasi-demand functions where travel time, as an indicator of the shadow price of book-loans, average personal income, information on the book stock, and on other media available at the library, are main explanatory variables. We use panel...

In the library literature, a great deal of interest in patron-driven collection development has recently been expressed, especially in those programs that link acquisitions with interlibrary loan. However, the implementation of such programs has been limited, at least in part because of concerns over the potential for wasteful spending. The authors will attempt to address this common concern by...

As interlibrary loan (ILL) becomes an increasingly used resource sharing mechanism for the exchange of books and periodicals, libraries have embraced new technologies to better manage ILL activities. While many efficiencies have been gained through the use of computers and telecommunication networks, the proliferation of telecommunication options, ILL systems and non-standard message formats ha...

index Access only to abstracts provided Usage Packages, Databases Citations/impact factor How often journal is cited both locally and globally Cost per use Successful full-text downloads/cost Interlibrary loan (ILL) use Comparing cost per use with cost of ILL JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY—•• 2015 3 DOI: 10.1002/asi 520 JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION F R INFORMATI...

We study borrowers’ optimal choice between formal and informal sources of credit in a setting with strategic default due to limited enforcement. Informal loans (e.g., from friends or relatives) can be enforced by the threat of severing social ties which hurts both the borrower and the lender, while formal loans (e.g., from banks) are enforced by requiring collateral. We show that in this settin...