The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of the internationalization of the industry and to suggest relevant theories when studying cross-border microfinance partnerships. Moreover, we present initial statistical evidence of how internationalization can influence MFIs’ performance...

This paper examines whether it pays to be green in the microfinance industry. Environmental issues are important for all businesses around the world, and thus many microfinance institutions (MFIs) started embracing them as an additional objective alongside their traditional social and financial...

Microfinance is a banking market in which operating costs are high while non-performing loans (NPLs) rates are low. While the existing literature tends to explain that the high operating costs arise from the provision of small loans, we argue that excessive efforts to control loan losses can...

The purpose of this article is to provide a summary of linear panel data analysis in simple language without mathematical expression. The summary serves as a quick reference for many researchers who want to utilize panel data techniques in their research. The article starts by explaining what a...

Purpose With Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), the self-regulation of the auditing profession was replaced with standard setting and oversight by the government. The authors focus on the audit fees literature to examine how this change impacted research trends over time and shaped different...

This paper examines the antecedents and short-run causal relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI) and infrastructure development in Ghana. Using time series data spanning 1966-2015, we find that that FDI net inflows positively influences electricity consumption in Ghana; however,...