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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (37 p)

Content: This paper investigates the African financial development and financial inclusion gaps relative to other peer developing countries. The paper uses a set of variables related to financial development and inclusion. It first estimates the gaps between African countries and other developing countries with similar degrees of economic development. Then, it explores the determinants of financial development and inclusion. The analysis finds that population density is considerably more important for financial development and inclusion in Africa than elsewhere. Finally, the paper shows evidence that a recent innovation in financial services, mobile banking, has helped to overcome infrastructural problems and improve financial access

Additional Edition: Allen, Franklin The African Financial Development and Financial Inclusion Gaps

Language: English

DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7019

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (62 p)

Content: With extensive country and firm-level data sets, this paper first documents that the financial sectors of most Sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. The paper also finds that population density appears to be considerably more important for banking sector development in Africa than elsewhere. To better understand how countries can overcome the high costs of developing viable banking sectors outside large metropolitan areas, the analysis focuses on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in recent years. The paper finds a positive and significant impact of Equity Bank, a leading private commercial bank, on financial access, especially for underprivileged households. Equity Bank's business model-providing financial services to population segments typically ignored by traditional commercial banks and generating sustainable profits in the process-can be a potential solution to the financial access problem that has hindered the development of inclusive financial sectors in many other African countries

Additional Edition: Allen, Franklin Resolving the African Financial Development Gap

Language: English

DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6592

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (39 p)

Content: Using household surveys and bank penetration data at the district-level in 2006 and 2009, this paper examines the impact of Equity Bank-a leading private commercial bank focusing on microfinance-on access to banking in Kenya. Unlike other commercial banks in Kenya, Equity Bank pursues distinct branching strategies that target underserved areas and less-privileged households. Equity Bank presence has a positive and significant impact on households' use of bank accounts and bank credit, especially for Kenyans with low income, no salaried job, and less education and those who do not own their own home. The findings are robust to using the district-level proportion of people speaking a minority language as an instrument for Equity Bank presence. It appears that Equity Bank's business model-providing financial services to population segments typically ignored by traditional commercial banks and generating sustainable profits in the process-can be a solution to the financial access problem that has hindered the development of inclusive financial sectors in many African countries

Additional Edition: Allen, Franklin Improving Access to Banking

Language: English

DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6593

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 475 p. 12 illus)

ISBN: 9789811046575

Series Statement: Canon and World Literature

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-981-10-4656-8

Language: English

Keywords: Lin, Yutang 1895-1976 ; Biografie

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4657-5

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ISBN: 9789004192140

Series Statement: Brill eBook titles 2011 3

Content: Preliminary Material /Q. Suoqiao -- Chapter One. Introduction: Re-Discovering Lin Yutang In The Post-Mao Era /Q. Suoqiao -- Chapter Two. Chinese Modernity: Nationalism, Imperialism, And The Liberal Cosmopolitan Alternative /Q. Suoqiao -- Chapter Three. Enlightenment And National Salvation: The Politics Of A Liberal Nationalist /Q. Suoqiao -- Chapter Four. “Little Critic:” “Returned” Professionals And The Cosmopolitan Modern /Q. Suoqiao -- Chapter Five. A Cross-Cultural Aesthetics Of Life: Translating “Xingling” Into “Self-Expression,” “Xianshi” Into “Leisure,” And “Humor” Into “Youmo” /Q. Suoqiao -- Chapter Six. Oriental Other: The Business Of Translating Chinese And American Cultures /Q. Suoqiao -- Chapter Seven. Cosmopolitan Difference: Critique Of Imperialism And Debating “Chinahands” /Q. Suoqiao -- Chapter Eight. Conclusion: What A Liberal Cosmopolitan Alternative Means For Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Dilemma /Q. Suoqiao -- Appendix Chronology of Lin Yutang (林语堂) /Q. Suoqiao -- Works Cited /Q. Suoqiao -- Character List /Q. Suoqiao -- Index /Q. Suoqiao.

Content: Chinese modernity discourses have been dominated by nationalism and revolutionary radicalism in much of the 20th century, but liberal cosmopolitanism has always been an important force in modern Chinese intellectuality, though a much neglected topic in modern Chinese studies. This book is a cross-cultural critique on the problem of the liberal cosmopolitan in modern Chinese intellectuality in light of Lin Yutang’s literary and cultural practices across China and America. It includes comparative reference to other discourses of major literary and intellectual figures such as Zhang Zhidong, Liang Qichao, Gu Hongming, Hu Shi, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Pearl S. Buck, Agnes Smedley and Edgar Snow. It also demonstrates that a liberal cosmopolitan road, which suggests a middling Chinese modernity, is both possible and desirable

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004192133

Additional Edition: ISBN 9004192131

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Qian, Suoqiao Liberal cosmopolitan Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2011 ISBN 9789004192133

Additional Edition: ISBN 9004192131

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Lin, Yutang 1895-1976 ; China ; Liberalismus ; Geistesleben ; Lin, Yutang 1895-1976 ; Literatur ; Interkulturelle Kompetenz ; Moderne ; Weltbürgertum ; Liberalismus

DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004192133.i-272

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Format: xiv, 475 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9789811046568 , 9811046565

Series Statement: Canon and world literature

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789811046575

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Lin, Yutang 1895-1976 ; Biografie

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 375 p

Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource

ISBN: 900428494X , 9789004284944

Series Statement: East Asian comparative literature and culture 6

Content: Cross-cultural studies: China and the world, A festschrift in honor of Professor Zhang Longxi collects twelve essays by eminent scholars across several disciplines in Chinese and cross-cultural studies to celebrate Zhang Longxi's scholarly achievements. As a leading scholar from post-Cultural Revolution China, Zhang Longxi's academic career has set a milestone in cross-cultural studies between China and the world. With an introduction by Qian Suoqiao, and a prologue by Zhang Longxi himself, the volume features masterly essays by Ronald Egan, Torbjörn Lodén, Haun Saussy, Lothar von Falkenhausen, and Hwa Yol Jung among others, which will make significant contributions to Sinological and cross-cultural studies of themselves on the one hand, and demonstrate Zhang Longxi's friendships and scholarly impact on the other

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction: Qian Zhongshu, Zhang Longxi and modern Chinese scholarship , Part 1. Sinological studies : China and her "others" in history ; A Han official serves the Jurchen : Zhao Bingwen's poetic reflections on rival states and cultures , Dwelling in the texts : toward an ethnopoetics of Zhu Xi and Daoxue , Some thoughts on writing the history of Chinese thought , China and Japan : dichotomies and diglossia in Japanese literary history , Part 2. Comparative cultural studies : East and West ; Antiquarianism in China and Europe : reflections on Momigliano , Cosmology, divination and semiotics : Chinese and Greek , Matteo Ricci the Daoist , "That roar which lies on the other side of silence" : comparing Hong lou meng, Middlemarch, and other masterpieces of Western narrative , Part 3. Cultural theory : China and the world ; Zhang Longxi's contribution to world literature in the globalizing world of multiculturalism : a tribute , To honor the language of truth : reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche, Hayim Nachman Bialik, Chen Yinke and Zhang Longxi , Mao's China abroad, and its homecoming : a comedy of cross-culturing in two acts , Memory, rhizome and postmodern sensitivity : Wong Kar-Wai and Brazilian films , Epilogue: The saintly and the suborned , Chinese character list.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004284951

Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004284944

Additional Edition: ISBN 900428494X

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe

Language: English

Keywords: China ; Kulturbeziehungen ; Geschichte ; Festschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.1163/9789004284951

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Author information: Zhang, Longxi 1947-

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Format: 298p , 挿図 , 18cm

Edition: 初版

Original writing title: 香港と日本 : 記憶・表象・アイデンティティ

Original writing title: ホンコン ト ニホン : キオク ヒョウショウ アイデンティティ

Original writing person/organisation: 銭, 俊華

ISBN: 9784480073235 , 448007323X

Series Statement: Chikuma shinsho 1498

Content: 2019年から続くデモ、中国大陸の同化政策、日本のサブカルチャーの受容や大日本帝国の記憶……香港出身の研究者が香港の現在と「日本」を考察する。

Note: 主要参考文献: p294-298

Language: Japanese

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Format: xi, 262 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm

ISBN: 1557291691 , 9781557291691

Series Statement: China research monograph 72

Content: "Lin Yutang (1895–1976) was the modern Chinese writer and intellectual best known to the Western world in the twentieth century. Hailed as a “Chinese philosopher,” Lin was the de facto spokesman for China and Chinese culture and played the role of cultural ambassador between China and the United States. This critical volume, representing the best international scholarship on Lin Yutang studies to date, is a first attempt at a comprehensive study on the cross-cultural legacy of Lin’s literary practices in and across China and America. The essays collected here, most of which were first presented at the international conference on the cross-cultural legacy of Lin Yutang in China and America held at the City University of Hong Kong in December 2011, offer different perspectives on Lin’s cross-cultural legacy

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Western universalism and Chinese identity : Lin Yutang as a cross-cultural critic , On Lin Yutang: between revolution and nostalgia , Lin Yutang's unique adoption of tradition , A bundle of contradictions: Lin Yutang's relationship to Christianity , Lin Yutang and the national language movement in Modern China , The "Fair Society" (Pingshe) in the diaries of Lin Yutang and Hu Shi , Lin Yutang's criticism of criticism of criticism: on self-expression in China and America , Collaborator of cannibal? Montaigne's role in Lin Yutang's Importance of Living , The genesis and reception of My Country and My People , His country and his language: Lin Yutang and the interpretation of things Chinese , Reconstructing the image of a Chinese courtesan for Western readers: Lin Yutang's Miss Tu and his cross-cultural rewriting strategies , The several worlds of Lin Yutang's gastronomy , Western universalism and Chinese identity : Lin Yutang as a cross-cultural critic , On Lin Yutang: between revolution and nostalgia , Lin Yutang's unique adoption of tradition , A bundle of contradictions: Lin Yutang's relationship to Christianity , Lin Yutang and the national language movement in Modern China , The "Fair Society" (Pingshe) in the diaries of Lin Yutang and Hu Shi , Lin Yutang's criticism of criticism of criticism: on self-expression in China and America , Collaborator of cannibal? Montaigne's role in Lin Yutang's Importance of Living , The genesis and reception of My Country and My People , His country and his language: Lin Yutang and the interpretation of things Chinese , Reconstructing the image of a Chinese courtesan for Western readers: Lin Yutang's Miss Tu and his cross-cultural rewriting strategies , The several worlds of Lin Yutang's gastronomy

Language: English

Keywords: Lin, Yutang 1895-1976 ; Kulturvergleich ; Philosophie ; Konferenzschrift

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Format: 67 S. , graph. Darst.

Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3975

Note: Internetausg.: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2006/07/26/000016406_20060726160125/Rendered/PDF/wps3975.pdf

Language: English

Keywords: Arbeitspapier