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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348215403321

Autore

Loubere Nicholas

Titolo

Development on Loan : Microcredit and Marginalisation in Rural China / / Nicholas Loubere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9789048544271

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285)

Collana

Transforming Asia

Soggetti

China

Microeconomics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language, Currency Units, and Referencing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rural Financial Services in China -- 3. Making Microcredit -- 4. Variation in Microcredit Implementation -- 5. Microcredit as Modernisation and De-marginalisation -- 6. Microcredit, Precarious Livelihoods, and Undercurrents of Marginalisation -- 7. Conclusion -- Acronyms -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Interviews -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit -- i.e. the provision of small-scale loans to 'financially excluded' rural households -- as a means of increasing 'financial consciousness' and facilitating rural de-marginalisation. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in rural China, this book examines the formulation, implementation and outcomes of government-run microcredit programmes in China-illuminating the diverse roles that microcredit plays in local processes of socioeconomic development and the livelihoods of local actors. It details how microcredit facilitates de-marginalisation for some, while simultaneously exacerbating the marginalisation of others; and



exposes the ways in which microcredit and other top-down development strategies reflect and reinforce the contradictions and paradoxes implicit in rural China's contemporary development landscape.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787647303321

Autore

Sakhnovich Alexander

Titolo

Inverse problems and nonlinear evolution equations : solutions, Darboux matrices and Weyl-Titchmarsh functions / / by Alexander Sakhnovich, Lev Sakhnovich, Inna Roitberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., KG, , [2013]

©2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics ; ; 47

Altri autori (Persone)

RoitbergInna

SakhnovichL. A

Disciplina

515.357

515/.357

Soggetti

Boundary value problems

Darboux transformations

Evolution equations, Nonlinear

Functions

Inverse problems (Differential equations)

Matrices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Notation -- Contents -- 0 Introduction -- 1 Preliminaries -- 2 Self-adjoint Dirac system: rectangular matrix potentials -- 3 Skew-self-adjoint Dirac system: rectangular matrix potentials -- 4 Linear system auxiliary to the nonlinear optics equation -- 5 Discrete systems -- 6 Integrable nonlinear equations -- 7 General GBDT theorems and explicit solutions of nonlinear equations -- 8 Some further results on inverse problems and generalized Bäcklund-Darboux transformation (GBDT) -- 9 Sliding inverse problems for radial Dirac



and Schrödinger equations -- Appendices -- A General-type canonical system: pseudospectral and Weyl functions -- B Mathematical system theory -- C Krein's system -- D Operator identities corresponding to inverse problems -- E Some basic theorems -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is based on the method of operator identities and related theory of S-nodes, both developed by Lev Sakhnovich. The notion of the transfer matrix function generated by the S-node plays an essential role. The authors present fundamental solutions of various important systems of differential equations using the transfer matrix function, that is, either directly in the form of the transfer matrix function or via the representation in this form of the corresponding Darboux matrix, when Bäcklund-Darboux transformations and explicit solutions are considered. The transfer matrix function representation of the fundamental solution yields solution of an inverse problem, namely, the problem to recover system from its Weyl function. Weyl theories of selfadjoint and skew-selfadjoint Dirac systems, related canonical systems, discrete Dirac systems, system auxiliary to the N-wave equation and a system rationally depending on the spectral parameter are obtained in this way. The results on direct and inverse problems are applied in turn to the study of the initial-boundary value problems for integrable (nonlinear) wave equations via inverse spectral transformation method. Evolution of the Weyl function and solution of the initial-boundary value problem in a semi-strip are derived for many important nonlinear equations. Some uniqueness and global existence results are also proved in detail using evolution formulas. The reading of the book requires only some basic knowledge of linear algebra, calculus and operator theory from the standard university courses.