For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the financially excluded, usually the poor. We use literature reviews and descriptive research to present different aspects of the relationship of the microfinancial services to microenterprise. The first thrust in this field had been from...

Remittances, die Geldtransfers von Migranten in ihre Herkunftsländer, haben in der Diskussion um nachhaltige Entwicklung in den letzten Jahren vermehrt an Bedeutung gewonnen. Diese Arbeit betont das enorme Potential von Remittances, Entwicklungsprozesse in Bewegung zu setzen und zu finanzieren....