Sustainable micro-finance depends on the appropriate management of credit risk. However, small and micro businesses (SMBs) tend to offer little information on their default probability, which poses serious challenges for their micro-finance needs. Given the tremendous socioeconomic impact of...

Some of the largest global insurers are actively pursuing the recently enacted Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI). While the concept of sustainability is often associated with a governance design that promotes stakeholder value the PSI do not appear to be a call for stakeholder-focused...

With the September 25th 2015 United Nations Resolution 70/1 “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, the case for integrating SUSTAINABILITY criteria at the heart of economic development programmes in particular, as well as the prerogative to pursue Sustainable...

Though gender equality has been at the centre of debate over the last decades, a number of benefits concerning the impact of female directors on corporate performance are still overlooked. Particularly, the link that seems to exist between female directors and sustainable finance has received...

Environmental sustainability represents nowadays a significant factor for business sector. Firms carry out many initiatives to develop environmental practices. Investors increasingly consider environmental discloser by firms and integrate this disclosure into the investment decision-making...

We study the determinants and interactions of sustainability and risk management with a cross-sectional dataset on commercial cattle farming in semi-arid rangelands in Namibia. Cattle farmers in Namibia act within a coupled ecological-economic system that is subject to extensive degradation and...