In Mali, the situation of cotton growing households has traditionally been considered as more favorable than that of … food crop producers. However, official statistics on poverty suggest that the cotton growing region of Sikasso is among the … poorest regions of the country and that cotton producers are on average poorer than all other farmers. This article offers a …

What is the impact of voluntary corporate environmental disclosures on the cost of equity? The present study will … information necessarily lower the cost of equity. …

improves the investor's risk-return performance. While the inclusion of microfinance equity has indeed been a major source of … picture of worldwide microfinance equity from the viewpoint of a profit-oriented investor. We construct microfinance country … equity indices and an international global microfinance index. We analyse the changes in these indices, which we assess in …

I propose a personal reading of some theories of social justice at a moment when the issue of equality or equity … appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality …

(JV) success. The first part of the paper provides a list of performance criteria used in the literature and suggests a …