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Governance and Scope Economies in Microfinance Institutions
Hartarska, Valentina - 2018
savings mobilization and lending by Microfinance Institutions. The findings support the hypothesis that employee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930971
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Uncovering Missing Links in Global Value Chain Research – And Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility and International Business
Serdijn, Merel; Kolk, Ans; Fransen, Luc - 2020
Purpose—Amidst burgeoning attention for global value chains (GVCs) in international business (IB), this paper identifies a clear “missing link” in this literature, and discusses implications for research and corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy-making and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091568
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How Global Is International CSR Research? Insights and Recommendations from a Systematic Review
Pisani, Niccolò; Kourula, Arno; Kolk, Ans; Meijer, Renske - 2020
While studies on international corporate social responsibility (CSR) have expanded significantly, their true global nature can be questioned. We systematically review 494 articles in 31 journals over a 31-year period. We assess the embeddedness of CSR in international management/business (IB);...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034159
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Microfinance for poverty alleviation : do transnational initiatives overlook fundamental questions of competition and intermediation?
Arp, Frithjof; Ardisa, Alvin; Ardisa, Alviani - 2017
Numerous microfinance initiatives around the world aim to alleviate poverty in developing countries. However, debate … community, which contribute about $9.4 billion to microfinance funding. In this policy-oriented article we aggregate findings … from two studies in Indonesia that help explain why moneylending can still thrive when low-interest microfinance is widely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763095
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Microfinance for Poverty Alleviation : Do Transnational Initiatives Overlook Fundamental Questions of Competition and Intermediation?
Arp, Frithjof - 2018
Numerous microfinance initiatives around the world aim to alleviate poverty in developing countries. However, debate … community, which contribute about $9.4 billion to microfinance funding. In this policy-oriented article we aggregate findings … from two studies in Indonesia that help explain why moneylending can still thrive when low-interest microfinance is widely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932679
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Chapter 71. Access to Finance
Karlan, Dean; Morduch, Jonathan - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4703-4784). 2010
Expanding access to financial services holds the promise to help reduce poverty and spur economic development. But, as a practical matter, commercial banks have faced challenges expanding access to poor and low-income households in developing economies, and nonprofits have had limited reach. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025731
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Grameen La Riba Model : A Strategy for Global Poverty Alleviation
Feroz, Ehsan H. - 2019
Micro-finance can be a po ... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895583
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Finance - growth nexus and banking efficiency : The impact of microfinance institutions
Abrar, Afsheen; Hasan, Iftekhar; Kabir, Rezaul - 2021
This paper investigates the relative importance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) at both the macro (financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324502
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Microfinance, commercialisation and ethics
Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 2008
This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance under economic and ethical aspects. It first … shows how microfinance has developed from a purely welfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking … microfinance in the course of the last decade. As the author argues, this commercial approach is the only sound approach to adopt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271345
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Subprime-Krise, strukturierte Finanzierung und die Förderung der Mikrokreditvergabe
Terberger, Eva - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 1, pp. 40-55
increasing the burden of public risk. Quite differently, microfinance is supported by investing scarce donor funds into the … tranches while the risk carried by donors and the support for microfinance is transparent and clearly limited. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377871