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Microcredit And Survival Microenterprises: The Role Of Market Structure, P.V. Viswanath
Microcredit And Survival Microenterprises: The Role Of Market Structure, P.V. Viswanath
Faculty Working Papers
Poverty remains a pervasive problem all over the world, but the problem is worst in underdeveloped areas like Africa. While microfinance is supposed to address this problem through the promotion of viable businesses, it has not been very successful in helping survival microenterprises, i.e., businesses that the very poor with limited human capital have access to, in sectors with low barriers to entry and selling undifferentiated products. In this paper, I examine the role of market structure in mediating the impact of micro-lending to such survival enterprises. While there have been many evaluations of microfinance institutions (MFIs), there have been …
500 Year Documentation, Francis T. Marchese, Phd, Maninder Pal Kaur Shergill
500 Year Documentation, Francis T. Marchese, Phd, Maninder Pal Kaur Shergill
Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Museum visitors today can regularly view 500 year old art by Renaissance masters. Will visitors to museums 500 years in the future be able to see the work of digital artists from the early 21st century? This paper considers the real problem of conserving interactive digital artwork for museum installation in the far distant future by exploring the requirements for creating documentation that will support an artwork's adaptation to future technology. In effect, this documentation must survive as long as the artwork itself -- effectively, in perpetuity. A proposal is made for the use of software engineering methodologies as solutions …