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Economic governance of MFIs : Inside the black box
Arun, Thankom; Annim, Samuel Kobina - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302234
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Corporate Governance Challenges in Microfinance
Mersland, Roy - 2014
microfinance struggle to become financially self-sufficient and to achieve their social objectives of servicing with quality the … poorest clientele possible. The issue of corporate governance has therefore been of increasing interest for microfinance as it … constitutes governance in relation to microfinance; (ii) identify the reasons why it is of such high importance for the industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069027
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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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Corporate Governance and Banks : What Have We Learned from the Financial Crisis?
Mehran, Hamid - 2011
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
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Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions
Mehran, Hamid - 2012
We identify the tension created by the dual demands of financial institutions to be value-maximizing entities that also serve the public interest. We highlight the importance of information in addressing the public's desire for banks to be safe yet innovative. Regulators can choose several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111580
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Does microfinance program innovation reduce income inequality? : cross-country and panel data analysis
Miled, Kamel Bel Hadj; Younsi, Moheddine; Landolsi, Monia - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 11 (2022), pp. 1-15
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803816
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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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Bank owners or bank managers : who is keen on risk? ; evidence from the financial crisis
Gropp, Reint; Köhler, Matthias - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941710
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Circular Economy and Default Risk
Zara, Claudio; Ramkumar, Shyaam - 2021
By decoupling economic growth from the exploitation of virgin raw materials and environmental degradation, as well as by developing practices more resilient to the economic cycle, Circular Economy (CE) offers effective hedging of linear risks and shields from that of stranded values. We tested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312098