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Recent academic work and policy analysis give insight into the governance problems exposed by the financial crisis and suggest possible solutions. We begin this paper by explaining why governance of banks differs from governance of non-financial firms. We then look at four areas of governance:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122805
This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … microfinance in reducing inequality at the macro level. Moreover, our results suggest that microfinance loans can lead to improve … recommendations to policymakers, as they could generate suitable strategies to consider microfinance institutions as a more popular …
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In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the crisis, and incurred larger losses and were more likely...
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Recent academic work and policy analysis give insight into the governance problems exposed by the financial crisis and suggest possible solutions. We begin this paper by explaining why governance of banks differs from governance of nonfinancial firms. We then look at four areas of governance:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009160737
Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247409
We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability … be robust using sensitivity analysis and Rosenbaum bounds method. -- Microfinance ; Vulnerability ; Poverty ; Self Help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008759521
The choice of Microfinance (MF) by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as the primary means of poverty alleviation … to take a fresh look and start from first principles to clear the air. Microfinance is micro finance---it is finance writ … small. If finance works, microfinance works. Much of the difficulty has been created by academics and arises from scholars …
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Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388959
This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty reduction intervention tool and the link between … access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that accesses to/ or … participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and /or improving the living standards of the poorest population are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900556
This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty-reduction intervention tool and the link between … access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that access to/ or … participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and /or improving the living standards of the poorest population are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866852