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The paper reviews the innovations developed by some financial institutions to meet the challenges of microfinance and … regulatory framework. The second type of innovation is institutional innovation which deals with the changes in the structure …, organization, and legal form of the institution. Another type of innovation is the process innovation. This refers to the …
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The past thirty years or so has seen microfinance take off from small group-based lending experiments to several …, insurance and money transfer services—remains. Where is the microfinance industry headed? This essay reviews the available … microfinance industry—the private sector as a continued source of product and process innovations; and the public sector taking …
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This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that … enable microfinance institutions (MFIs) to reach a greater number of poor households on a sustainable basis. It discusses the … functioning of markets. It points out government's pivotal role in system innovation because of the likelihood of its under or …
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The paper reviews the innovations developed by some financial institutions to meet the challenges of microfinance and … regulatory framework. The second type of innovation is institutional innovation which deals with the changes in the structure …, organization, and legal form of the institution. Another type of innovation is the process innovation. This refers to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685799
This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that … make it possible for microfinance institutions (MFIs) to reach a greater number of poor households on a sustainable basis … ensuring the proper functioning of markets. It points out government's pivotal role in system innovation because of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787248
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
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the local systems of healthcare, which guarantees the principles of the health system in Brazil. Based on the theories … that sustain the concepts of innovation, this research has the main objective to identify the innovations which occur in …
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, where a non-governmental organization (NGO) rather than a regulator watches over citizens' interests. The innovation … innovation process is considered in terms of a redistribution of profit towards community development, with or without additional … demonstrates that the firm's choice of VA hinges on the tradeoffs between appropriating the full innovation profit and paying a …
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Corporate social responsibility helps achieving different social, environmental and economic policy goals, but it can also contribute to competitiveness. This paper concentrates on how CSR could help competitiveness at level of individual enterprises. Moreover the connection between macro-level...
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Altruism and the ethical relationship to other people affect behaviour of subjects in economic environment. Economy tries to capture this behaviour, there are various models, but it hasn´t been successful in fi nding one model describing various types and cases of altruistic behaviour. Business...
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