Little work has been done in the conjunction of Microfinance and Religion. This paper explores the findings of the extant research. It then provides future research directions on a number of subjects within this broad area, available for researchers from a large number of fields: anthropology,...

The UNDP has set Millennium Goals which include the halving of world poverty by 2015. This can be viewed in the light of enlightened self interest, including noneconomic interest, within the above view. This was translated into reducing by half the number of people living in abject poverty. We...

Tax administrations are networking to create synergies. On the one hand, formal and informal network strategies are developed to increase their receipts at the expense of enterprise. On the other hand, governments also follow an industrial marketing approach of networking to add value to...