Microfinance programs have significant potential for contributing towards improvements of agricultural and other rural sectors investments and operations and empowerments of rural community. However, access to financial institutions such as banks by smallholder farmers in rural areas is limited because …

Following the footsteps of the United States, the United Kingdom and many European countries, the Netherlands government is implementing Public Finance Constructions (PFC) as a means of financing and realizing public infrastructures. Being preceded by the Ministry of Traffic, Public Works and Water Management, …

Inleiding Dit onderzoeksverslag is geschreven in het kader van de afstudeeropdracht in het vierde studiejaar van de Opleiding voor Fysiotherapie aan de Fontys Paramedische Hogeschool te Eindhoven. Het projectvoorstel is ingediend door Revalidatiecentrum Blixembosch te Eindhoven, afdeling fysiotherapie. Er …

As the government states that current students have a loan aversion, more students in my opinion seem to make more use of the loan services of the Informatie Beheer Groep (IBG). That was my starting point before I began this thesis. My point of view concerning student loans was that students do loan …

Getting more people on a bicycle in Cape Town is what BEN wants. Especially people who travel by car, public transport or by foot. If more people start cycling in Cape Town BEN will get a stronger position in convincing the province and get them to make Cape Town cycle-friendlier. Target BEN wants to …

This relationship between external knowledge providers, e.g. consultants and academic institutions, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a difficult one. SME entrepreneurs think external advice is expensive, not required and/or not useful. In this paper these arguments are explored against the …

Samenvatting: Inleiding In de samenvatting worden na deze inleiding achtereenvolgens de onderzoeksvraag, het doel, de methode, de resultaten en de conclusie met betrekking tot het project beschreven. In september 2002 zijn negen fysiotherapiepraktijken in de regio 's-Hertogenbosch gefuseerd tot Fysio©ompany. …

In the past years teacher education colleges have started to offer more alternative routes to teaching in secondary education. The development is a response to teacher shortages but also to a change in thinking about teaching as a profession, professional learning and the school as site of learning. …