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Finance Matters for Poverty Reduction and Attaining the MDGs: Recent Empirical Evidence
Finance is an important component of development, including for poor people. Indeed, recent empirical evidence has shown that a more developed financial system can help reduce poverty and lower income inequality.
Managing Credit Risk in Microlending Operations
One of the most important determinants of a successful microlending operation is the successful management of credit risk. Or, more simply, keeping loan delinquencies to an acceptable level.

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7.0 The African Entrepreneur Entrepreneurial Competencies: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
Empirical studies linking education and training to entrepreneurial success have had mixed and contradictory results.
Finance Matters for Poverty Reduction and Attaining the MDGs: Recent Empirical Evidence
Finance is an important component of development, including for poor people. Indeed, recent empirical evidence has shown that a more developed financial system can help reduce poverty and lower income inequality.
Constraints of growth-oriented enterprises in the southern and eastern African region
In its efforts to promote the creation of quality jobs within the small- and medium-scale enterprise sector, the Regional Project Office for the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) program in Harare, Zimbabwe has undertaken two studies aiming to find out what growth-oriented enterprises look like and how the ILO can assist them in their aspirations to grow. This article presents the key findings from the latter of these two studies.
Empirical Skepticism
Empirical skepticism is a foundation for great leadership. We must deliberately suspend judgment and be willing to live in doubt for while, in order to allow assumptions to be sorted from facts and to keep irrelevant facts from clouding our judgment. This practice of empirical skepticism ensures that open and challenging questions help our teams anticipate opportunity and assess risk more accurately.
Supply Chain Confidence A PI Q and A
The following is an interesting question I received from a Master of Science (M.Sc.) Business Technologies student who is working on her thesis “Measuring Confidence in Supply Chain Management System: An empirical approach.” Reader Question: My name is Diana Esparza, M.Sc. Electronic Business Technologies full time student at the University of Ottawa. Currently, I am working on my thesis proposal “Measuring Confidence in Supply Chain Management System: An empirical approach”.

Unintended Consequences of Hybrid Vehicles
I heard a "superb" cynical statement today. I have no idea if it is factually correct, have no data (empirical or anecdotal) to support it, but it is such a great potential example of unintended consequences that I thought it was worth putting out there.
A SHARPER MIND/BRAIN --(To Reduce Stress Level)
Many studies have underlined the importance of exercise in reducing stress level. Studies also show that aerobic exercise is an excellent way of keeping our brains young and healthy.

Bust the Recession With Mobile Marketing.
Group text messaging is proving to be a recession buster for many businesses. In today's busy world where simple is better, case studies are claiming a text message is the new 800 pound gorilla. Furthermore, case studies are supporting this statement showing texting can do wonders for sales/marketing or communications.
Take Advantage of Eye Tracking Tests
Sure, eye tracking studies designed specifically for your web site could cost you tens of thousands of dollars. So, until you’re ready to spend that kind of money, you might want to take advantage of data garnered from studies of other websites.

Bin Laden & How Information Spreads Now
Smart and empirical discussion of how the bin Laden death information spread on The Twitter, first as rumor and then as fact.

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