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Perceived Impact of Microfinance Cooperatives on Women Empowerment: Application of Tobit Model
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An econometric analysis of Perceived Impact of Microfinance on Women Empowerment (PI) was conducted using the Tobit model. Capabilities are latent variables which cannot be directly observed and measured. However, functionings can be measured. Women empowerment is a capability enhancement process for women. In this study, several functionings are considered, namely, income, savings, amount of Household assets, amount of Productive assets, employment opportunities, power of decision making, confidence to face problems, better awareness, knowledge about banking operations, social status, level of education for children, nutrient and health of household, employability skills and participation in community activities. The study analysed the perceived impact of microfinance on women empowerment in Tsholotsho District. The investigation was based on a population of 2,233 microfinance cooperatives members in Tsholotsho District, Zimbabwe and assuming a 10% level of precision, a sample size of 100 respondents was derived using the Yamane’s approach. A majority of the microfinance cooperatives participants who were part of the representative sample indicate that microfinance improves their ability to meet functionings under study. Spouse income, Family business background, Household size, Birth order or position in the family of birth have a positive effect on microfinance participant's perception. The study recommends packaging of microfinance taking into account birth order and family business history effects in Tsholotsho and also spreading of informal microfinance models to other districts and provinces. Further studies are needed, namely, assessing the economic impacts of male folk migration to South Africa on women empowerment and general poverty alleviation in rural areas, especially Tsholotsho
Effects of Microfinance Cooperatives on Women Capabilities through Microentrepreneurship: Application of Amatya Sen’s Capabilities Approach
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In the context of the approach by Sen, microfinance when adopted as a tool to reduce and defeminise poverty, can expand women’s capabilities and increase the freedoms or opportunities and choices to acquire the desired things. The feminisation of poverty is occurring in Tsholotsho District despite a plethora of microfinance cooperatives which are supposed to reduce and defeminise poverty. The objective of the study was to analyse the impact of microfinance on capability enhancement among women through microenterprise development in Tsholotsho District. The target population for the study was 2,233 women under ORAP’s Amalima programme out of whom a sample of 100 was selected and matched by a similar number of non-participants. The study assessed microfinance in terms of microenterprises formation. Results show that microfinance increases the probability of forming a microenterprise. The findings confirm that microfinance increases individuals' capacity to meet their basic capabilities. The study proposes replication of Tsholotsho's microfinance models within and outside Tsholotsho; ensuring community participation in microfinance by considering factors that determine participation and tailor-make microfinance packages to cater to the target population's needs; and developing and strengthening Cooperative- Bank Linkages
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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