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Gender dimensions of accessing business loans for micro and small businesses: A case study of Chipata District in Eastern Province of Zambia
No full textThis dissertation explores why despite women traders in Chipata District in Eastern
Province of Zambia being provided with business loans the end result is failure. Microfinance providers exclusively target women traders in the informal sector for group
finance. The author reveals this state of affairs between availability of group finance and
failure by using the Women’s Law Approach in his research. This approach enabled him
harness complementary methodologies such as the Grounded, Human Rights and Actors and Structures in a gender sensitive way so as to investigate the legal, socio-cultural and economic challenges (factors) which constrain women’s entrepreneurship potential. The methods used for data collection included desk research of the relevant literature, policy and law. He also used focused group discussion with women traders while applied in-depth interviews with government, MFIs, and NGOs officials. He finds that the group finance schemes implemented by micro-finance providers follow the Grameen Bank model. It is assumed that providing women with money for income generating (IGAs) projects is enough when in actual fact it is not. He also finds that the needs of micro and small businesses in the informal sector have not been met and their active role in economic development has been ignored by government and NGOs in their policy formulation and implementation. The author finds three factors that constrain women’s capacity to businessdevelopment and these are: legal, legislative and policy provision, socio-cultural factors and economic challenges. He suggests that the solutions to failure lies in the following: Mentoring and networking were experienced women entrepreneurs can provide much needed support for new and emerging women entrepreneurs. Secondly, women must be assisted with subsidized day care centers for them to balance business activities and family responsibilities. To resolve marital issues where husbands interfere with the wives’ business, the only way out of this is through sensitization, educating the men on the importance of supporting women’s business activities. Thirdly, women not only need credit for business but also business training and entrepreneurship skills. To further improve the situation of business women in the informal sector the author recommends the following: enshrine socio-economic rights in the Zambia Constitution and make them justiciable. Finally there need is to stop stereotyping women as poor and needing small amounts of money to venture in to small income generating projects.,NORA
Gender Dimensions of Accessing Business Loans for Micro and Small Businesses: A Case Study of Chipata District in Eastern Province of Zambia
No full textThis dissertation explores why despite women traders in Chipata District in Eastern
Province of Zambia being provided with business loans the end result is failure. Microfinance
providers exclusively target women traders in the informal sector for group
finance. The author reveals this state of affairs between availability of group finance and
failure by using the Women’s Law Approach in his research. This approach enabled him
harness complementary methodologies such as the Grounded, Human Rights and Actors
and Structures in a gender sensitive way so as to investigate the legal, socio-cultural and
economic challenges (factors) which constrain women’s entrepreneurship potential. The
methods used for data collection included desk research of the relevant literature, policy
and law. He also used focused group discussion with women traders while applied in-depth
interviews with government, MFIs, and NGOs officials. He finds that the group finance
schemes implemented by micro-finance providers follow the Grameen Bank model. It is
assumed that providing women with money for income generating (IGAs) projects is
enough when in actual fact it is not. He also finds that the needs of micro and small
businesses in the informal sector have not been met and their active role in economic
development has been ignored by government and NGOs in their policy formulation and
implementation. The author finds three factors that constrain women’s capacity to business
development and these are: legal, legislative and policy provision, socio-cultural factors
and economic challenges. He suggests that the solutions to failure lies in the following:
Mentoring and networking were experienced women entrepreneurs can provide much
needed support for new and emerging women entrepreneurs. Secondly, women must be
assisted with subsidized day care centers for them to balance business activities and family
responsibilities. To resolve marital issues where husbands interfere with the wives’
business, the only way out of this is through sensitization, educating the men on the
importance of supporting women’s business activities. Thirdly, women not only need
credit for business but also business training and entrepreneurship skills. To further
improve the situation of business women in the informal sector the author recommends the
following: enshrine socio-economic rights in the Zambia Constitution and make them
justiciable. Finally there need is to stop stereotyping women as poor and needing small
amounts of money to venture in to small income generating projects
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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