Based on fieldwork undertaken during September 2004 in Bamako and in the Pays Dogon, and further financial and statistical data obtained in 2005, presents the cases of two financial institutions, Nyèsigiso and Caisses Villageoises d’Epargne et de Crédit Autogérées des Pays Dogon (CVECAs).

Based on a survey of 105 credit cooperatives carried out in 1993. Focuses on the effects of external funding on the growth of credit unions, their resource base and diversity, especially savings mobilization from members, profitability and loan delinquency.

Policymakers in Latin America increasingly are turning to policies that have high economic rates of return and a favorable impact on income distribution. By providing financial services to small businesses and poor households -which normally lack such services- credit unions help secure growth...

En este trabajo se realiza una descripcion sintetica del estado actual del sector pesquero europeo por segmentos y se propone un procedimiento para evaluar los resultados economics medios obtenidos por las flotas pesqueras de la Union Europea. A partir de una muestra representatice de segmentos...

El eslabón más débil de una compañía a la hora de proteger la información son los mismos empleados, ya que se pueden tener los mejores estándares de seguridad para protegerla, pero siempre la información que se quiere proteger está disponible para un grupo de personas; he aquí la...

In this paper, the problems linked to renewable wind power energy production are analyzed and a model to define the variables in which the wind power business plan relies on is proposed. The viability plan shows that the shareholder's cash flows obtained in this kind of projects make it possible...