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Use of donor funds in the financing of MFIs
Hudon, Marek - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2007
This paper focuses on the use of donor funds to finance MFIs. The role of donors in microfinance is rapidly evolving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146700
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Towards a Theory of Fair Interest Rates on Microcredit
Hudon, Marek; Sandberg, Joakim - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011
One of the most salient ethical debates concerning microcredit pertains to the unexpectedly high rates of interest charged on microloans. Microcredit is supposed to be to the advantage of borrowers in some of the poorest regions of the world, but at the same time commercial institutions need to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145632
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Fair interest rates when lending to the poor: Are fair prices derived from basic principles of justice?
Hudon, Marek - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2006
, at minimum, for socially-minded ones active on the microfinance markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558860
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Social justice with credits to the poor
Hudon, Marek - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2007
Fair prices have been recently addressed through debates on fair trade or fair wage. This paper addresses the fairness of credits to the poor. It first analyzes a few definitions of fair interest rates. It then determines the extent of the ‘just’ range of a price, its major constraints and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558889
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Subsidies and financial performances of the microfinance institutions: Does management matter?
Hudon, Marek - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2006
This paper uses a unique database from a leading microfinance rating agency to assess the impact of management on the … functioning of microfinance institutions (MFIs). It focuses on MFIs’ financial performance, and on the level of subsidies received …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558896
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Microfinance in post-disaster and post-conflict situations: Turning victims into shareholders
Hudon, Marek; Dieter Seibel, Hans - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2007
In recent years, large numbers of developing and transitional countries have ex¬peri¬enced situations of crisis, following political, economic or natural disasters, or total crisis, triggered by war or totalitarian oppression. The goal of this article is to study the role of member-owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558929
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Should Access to Credit be a Right ?
Hudon, Marek - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2007
Discussion on financial ethics increasingly includes the problem of exclusion of the poorer segments of society from the financial system and access to credit. This paper explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the concept of a human right to credit. If access to credit is directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558933
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Governance and Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States
Hartarska, Valentina - 2004
independence, and management compensation on outreach and sustainability of microfinance institutions in Central and Eastern Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012738288
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Women Leaders and Social Performance: Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal
Szafarz, Ariane; Périlleux, Anaïs - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2014
How do women leaders such as board members and top managers influence the social performance of organizations? This paper addresses the issue by exploiting a unique database released by a Senegalese network of 36 financial cooperatives sharing identical governance characteristics and placed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010968979
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The intermediary role of microloan officers: Evidence from Ethiopia
Shchetinin, Oleg; Wollbrant, Conny - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013
Microfinance institutions are key financial intermediaries between donors and borrowers in developing countries. Loan … officers are crucial for establishing and maintaining the relationship between borrowers and microfinance institutions. This … organizational structure of the microfinance institution, for example, incentive provision. We pay special attention to monitoring of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019124