Chapter 1: Global Recession and Microfinance Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 2: Are microfinance institutions unscathed from the recession? – An empirical reconsideration -- Chapter 3: Microfinance as a Strategy to Curb the Global Recession -- Chapter 4: Developing...

Chapter 1: Introduction to "Entrepreneurship in Post-Communist Countries: New Drivers towards a Market Economy" -- Part 1: Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Context -- Chapter 2: The influence of the motives of entrepreneurial activity on economic growth of developing countries in Southeast...

This book presents a business model on how to structure the relationship between financial services and procurement. The need for new models is particularly important to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) where there is an evident difficulty in accessing credit. Due to this context,...

1. The Story of Small Business Lending -- Part I The Problem -- 2. Small Businesses Are Important to the Economy -- 3. Small Businesses and Their Banks: The Impact of the Great Recession -- 4. Structural Obstacles Slow Small Business Lending -- 5. What Small Businesses Want -- Part II The New...

1. Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: the Role of Financial Studies -- 2. Risk and Pricing on the Italian Minibond Market -- 3. Exploring Factors Influencing the Success of Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns: Findings from Italy -- 4. From seeker side to investor side: gender dynamics in UK equity...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Are Current Policies on Track to Eliminate Poverty? -- Chapter 3. How Mainstream Economics Works -- Chapter 4. Basic Principles to Understand Macroeconomics -- Chapter 5. Markets Alone Make No Development -- Chapter 6. Developing Countries in Global...

This book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each chapter highlights a specific type of...

1. The Microfinance Alphabet- Marek Hudon, Marc Labie and Ariane Szafarz -- 2. Addressing climate change with Microfinance Plus: experiences in cattle and coffee regions of Nicaragua- Johan Bastiaensen, Milagros Romero and Frédéric Huybrechs -- 3. Remittances: loan funds for a rural economy?...