Once viewed at opposite ends of a spectrum, financial investment and philanthropy are
becoming partners in social enterprise development. Impact investing (II) is one of the most …

Acknowledgements With thanks to our host institutions, the Universities of London and
Johannesburg, our funder, the UK Department for International Development and in …

We extend the entrepreneurship literature to include positive psychological capital—an
individual or organization's level of psychological resources consisting of hope, optimism …

Good corporate governance is considered a building block of success for microfinance
institutions (MFIs) as it is presumed to help them in achieving their social and financial goals …

Numerous countries have sorted out energy awards as an instrument to promote energy
efficiency (EE), to contribute towards energy sustainability and to give a component to …

We use data from a randomized controlled trial conducted in 2003–2006 in rural Amhara
and Oromiya (Ethiopia) to study the impacts of increasing access to microfinance on a …

In spite of increasing pressure on microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in developing
countries to transform into regulated financial intermediaries, to date, no study has …

Increasing efforts aim at economic development and the reduction of poverty in developing
countries through microcredit-enabled entrepreneurship. Following the award of the Nobel …

Microfinance promises to trim down poverty. To achieve this noble objective microfinance
institutions (MFIs) have to become steady profitable because donor constancy is not a given …

Conventional microfinance institutions (MFIs) can promote financial inclusion, but they also
prompt ethical concerns regarding the social consequences of commercialization and high …