This article reviews Germany's corporate governance system and the effectiveness of recent reforms. Since the early 1990s far-reaching reforms have complemented the traditional stakeholder system with important elements of the shareholder system. Instead of taking a view on the superiority of...

In diesem Arbeitspapier werden die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung zur Zusammensetzung und Verg�tung des Aufsichtsrats kleiner und mittelst�ndischer Aktiengesellschaften vorgelegt. Befragt wurden mittels eines im Internet verf�gbaren Fragebogens die Vorst�nde...

Based on interviews with officers and workers in four banks and four insurance companies in each country.

Examines the role of financial institutions in transferring remittance and macro-economic background against which such transfers takes place; evaluates use of remittance, the characteristics and needs of remittance sending/receiving persons; explores the possible role of micro-finance institutions...

Explores how public actors, especially in home countries, link foreign direct investment (FDI) to labour and employment issues.

Based on a survey of 275 clients of a microfinance institution (MFI) in Lusaka. Analyses the economic stresses to which low-income entrepreneurs are vulnerable, examines their coping strategies and assesses the potential demand for microinsurance and other risk-managing financial services such...