Background The significance of sanitation to safeguard human health is irrefutable and has
important public health dimensions. Access to sanitation has been essential for human …

The contemporary model of microfinance has its roots in a small local experiment in
Bangladesh in the early 1970s undertaken by Dr Muhammad Yunus, the US-educated …

According to the author, rather than alleviating poverty, microfinance financialises poverty.
By indebting poor people in the Global South, it drives financial expansion and opens new …

This article reviews the literature on the financialisation of water. Water financialisation is
generally defined as a global trend wherein financial actors, instruments and practices …

Background Globally, one in ten individuals practice open defecation. Despite media
speculation that it increases women's risk of sexual violence, little empirical evidence …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the factors that influence rural women's participation in
Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) and the savings contribution in the Kassena …

Microfinance began as the disbursement of tiny loans to the poor, which they could use to
undertake informal income-generating activities. It went on to become one of the most …

As the impact of market actors and their doctrines on philanthropy gradually increases, the
debate between the proponents and the critics of 'marketization'of philanthropy intensifies …

Microfinance does not reduce poverty, but it does successfully construct economic relations
between owners of capital and borrowers of capital, allowing surpluses to accumulate …

This paper sheds light on the question to what extent public development banks can, and
do, contribute to achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 on …