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Performance Management of Double Bottom Line Institutions: Evidence from Banco Compartamos’s Productivity Distribution

Hudon, Marek; Périlleux, Anaïs - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011

We use an innovative methodology to analyze social responsibility in double bottom line institutions such as microfinance institutions. We provide empirical evidence on the distribution of the generated surplus between the key stakeholders of one of the most famous MFIs worldwide: Banco...

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What Explains Microfinance Distribution Surplus? A Stakeholder-oriented Approach

Hudon, Marek; Périlleux, Anaïs - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010

What are the drivers of productivity surplus distribution to microfinance stakeholders? This paper shows that the size of the institution is the main indicator that can explain the gain in productivity surplus but also the surplus given to clients (decrease of interest rates) and staff....

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Vietnam’s political economy: a discussion on the 1986-2016 period

Vuong, Quan Hoang - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2014

Being a member of the thriving ASEAN and successfully implementing economic renovation (Doi Moi) have drawn the world's attention on Vietnam around the turn of the millennium. Some even expected a much faster pace of transformation, and renewed economic, AND political, reforms in Vietnam, or Doi...

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Business Cooperatives as a social response to unemployment

Ashta, Arvind - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

financial markets is being questioned and new forms of social innovations focusing on stakeholder governance and cooperation are … microcredit. It also provides the microentrepreneurs a new form of governance and opportunities for networking, developing …

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Microfinance and common goods: A study of Brazilian community development banks

Hudon, Marek; Meyer, Camille - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

Inclusive financial sectors are essential in terms of poverty alleviation. While microcredit can be governed as a private good, self-managed civil society organizations propose an alternative way of managing financial services. Brazil's Community Development Banks (CDBs) are a growing and...

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L’opérateur de transport public à Bruxelles (STIB) et la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale :25 ans de vie commune

Goethals, Christophe - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2014

Since 1989 and the regionalization of public transports in Belgium, the Société des transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB), i.e. the public operator of urban transport in Brussels, has undergone many changes, both structural and organizational. Meanwhile, the company has managed to...

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Audit Quality and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Microfinance Industry

Beisland, Leif Atle; Mersland, Roy; Oystein Strøm, R. - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

the relationships between audit quality and governance mechanisms. We examine two measures of audit quality, namely, the … audit quality. In particular, the presence of internal auditors is related to other indicators of stricter governance … relationship between audit quality and governance does exist, the sign of this relationship is always positive. Thus, our data …

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Maturity Mismatch and Governance of Microfinance Cooperatives: Lessons from History

Périlleux, Anaïs A - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010

a maturity mismatch, which in turns leads to governance issues. The 19th century German FCs provided long-term loans (10 … governance system based on cooperative auditing associations. We discuss the feasibility of implementing those mechanisms in …

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Productivity Surplus Distribution in Microfinance: Does Ownership Matter?

Périlleux, Anaïs; Bloy, Eddy; Hudon, Marek - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010

How do microfinance institutions (MFIs) allocate their productivity surplus to stakeholders? This paper shows that this allocation process varies according to the MFI ownership structure. Non-profit organisations and shareholders-held MFIs exhibit a tendency to largely keep their surplus within...

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Microfinance Institutions Performance. What Matters about the Interaction of Location and Legal Status?

Tchakoute Tchuigoua, Hubert - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010

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...

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