At present time in the credit sector of Lithuania in line with commercial banks one can find small cooperative financial institutions or credit unions. A credit union is a credit institution, established on a cooperative basis, which supplies various financial services to its members. A credit...

Applying a non-parametric Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) method, this paper attempts to investigate productivity changes of Malaysian non-bank financial institutions during the post crisis period of 2000-2004. Our results suggest that: (1) Malaysian NBFIs have exhibit productivity regress of...

Institutions (NCBFIs) during the period of 2000 to 2004. The efficiency estimates of individual NCBFIs are evaluated using the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. The method allows us to distinguish individual NCBFIs technical efficiency (TE) along with its mutually exhaustive...

This paper describes economic developments in St. Vincent and the Grenadines during the 1990s. Between 1990 and 1995, real GDP growth (at factor costs) averaged 4 percent per year, but varied widely from year to year, largely reflecting developments in the banana industry, St. Vincent’s...