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We explore the socially responsible investment practices and implementation approaches of some extractive listed firms through the lens of institutional theory. Using an interpretive case study approach with data collected from interviews, observations, and archival documents, over 10 months, we...
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Ghana for several years and stakeholder involvement in CSR is important for implementing relevant CSR programs. Findings of … dealing with stakeholder relations and CSR in Ghana's mining sector. Therefore, it is recommended that the mining sector put …
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questionnaires were administered to 600 final-year undergraduate students at the premier Business School in Ghana out of which 500 …
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. Microfinance programs should strive at preventing such consequences of bounded rationality. …
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This paper analyses the welfare effects of microfinance and inflation in developing countries. Therefore, we introduce … microfinance institution induces peer monitoring, which in turn enables entrepreneurship. Our main result is that there exists an … inflation threshold beyond which entrepreneurship collapses. We show that inflation affects the impact of microfinance on social …
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is currently the largest and fastest growing microfinance program in the developing world, has been aggressively promoted …
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Microfinance programs like the Self Help Bank Linkage Program in India have been increasingly promoted for their … between microfinance and women's empowerment. This paper contributes by arguing that women empowerment takes place when women …
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This paper investigates investment performance of microfinance investment funds. The examined funds have recorded lower … revealed that investment in microfinance investment funds that focus especially on debt instruments represents an attractive … investors with a particular interest in the socially responsible aspect of investment into microfinance. …
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Microfinance is typically associated with joint liability of group members. However, a large part of microfinance … contracts. Moreover, we show that microfinance institutions offer group loans when the loan size is rather large, refinancing … costs are high, and competition between microfinance institutions is low. Otherwise, individual loans are offered …
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We study the effects of competition on loan rates and portfolio-at-risk in microcredit markets using a new database from rating agencies, covering 379 microbanks located in 67 countries between 2002 and 2008. Our study reveals different competitive effects in nonprofit and for-profit microbanks....
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