The question this article seeks to answer is whether the relationship between legal status and performance is influenced by the geographical area to which the MFI belongs, as postulated in some work. To this end, we study a sample of 202 MFIs in the period 2001 to 2006. The results show that in...

L’objectif de l’article est de vérifier empiriquement les effets des mécanismes internes et externes de gouvernance sur la performance des IMF de l’Afrique sub-saharienne. L’économétrie des données de panel nous permet d’étudier un échantillon composé de 64 IMF africaines entre...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are crucial in enhancing financial inclusion in developing countries. Nonetheless, one of their main challenges is their ability to be profitable while serving the poor and the excluded, especially during bad times. Accordingly, this study aims to determine...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between risk management and performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs). The devices tested are the choices of credit contracts and prudential regulation. Performance is understood in three dimensions. It refers to profitability,...

Using a large international sample of 348,899 year-firm observations covering 352 Islamic banks and 30,572 conventional banks in 213 countries over the 1999-2013 period, we estimate the deposit insurance premiums of Islamic banks and conventional banks. We find that the premiums for publicly...

This paper re-examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare (or poverty reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net inflows per capita and the UNDP's HDI as the principal variables, our analyses confirm the positive and strongly significant relationship between FDI net inflows and poverty...

International aid effectiveness has recently been significantly questioned in the development literature with regard to the large amount of aid received by developing countries to finance development projects and the mixed results achieved. However, assessment of development projects is not an...