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Governance and Scope Economies in Microfinance Institutions
2013
This paper studies the relation between board size and composition and cost savings (scope economies) from combining savings mobilization and lending by Microfinance Institutions. The findings support the hypothesis that employee representation on the board is associated with positive scope economies, possibly due to internal knowledge. However, CEO Chairman duality is associated with equal or larger probability of scope diseconomies, which is consistent with previous findings. Representation of other stakeholders on the MFI board does not affect scope economies. The results seem to support the notion that, in highly uncertain environments, group cohesion may be an advantageous mechanism of…
Governance and scope economies in microfinance institutions
2013
This paper studies the relation between board size and composition and cost savings (scope economies) from combining savings mobilisation and lending by Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). The findings support the hypothesis that employee representation on the board is associated with positive scope economies, possibly due to internal knowledge. However, CEO-Chairman duality is associated with equal or larger probability of scope diseconomies, which is consistent with previous findings. Representation
Medioevo e Mediterraneo: incontri, scambi e confronti. Studi per Salvatore Fodale
2020
Il volume Medioevo e Mediterraneo: incontri, scambi e confronti raccoglie un ampio e articolato omaggio a Salvatore Fodale, professore ordinario di Storia Medievale dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo e dal 2015 emerito, reso da colleghi, italiani e stranieri, e allievi a lui legati da interessi scientifici e rapporti di amicizia, a testimonianza della vocazione internazionale della sua ricerca e delle relazioni intessute durante la lunga carriera di accademico. L'opera si articola in quattro sezioni con testi in italiano, castigliano, catalano, francese e inglese: I Regni e aristocrazie tra consenso e conflitto, II Istituzioni ecclesiastiche e vita religiosa, III Economia, fisco e lavor…
ICT Diffusion and Foreign Direct Investment
2011
This chapter investigates the impact of inward and outward FDI on ICT diffusion in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions for the period 1996-2008. The results indicate that while inward FDI has generally had a positive and significant impact on ICT diffusion in Asia-Pacific economies, its impact on the Middle Eastern countries has been detrimental. In contrast, the results of this study also show that outward FDI has had, in general, the inverse effect, it has been in general positive and significant for the Middle East countries but insignificant for Asia-Pacific economies.
Religion and the Scandinavian Welfare State: Public Support for Socio-economic Rights in Times of Migration
2020
The theme of this article is the legitimisation of social and economic rights within the context of the Scandinavian welfare state. This problem has become more prominent in the light of the recent influx of immigrants from countries in the Middle East and Africa dominated by other religious and cultural traditions than Lutheran Protestantism. Two questions are discussed in the article. First, what role has religion played vis-a-vis the development of the welfare states in Scandinavia? Second, in what ways have recent immigration trends influenced popular support for welfare provision and social rights?
W. Phillips Davison (2006). A Personal History of World War II. How a Pacifist Draftee Accidentally Became a Military Government Official in Postwar …
2008
El litigio climático ante la responsabilidad intergeneracional
2021
El carácter intergeneracional del litigio climático plantea un interés sobre la protección jurídica de las generaciones futuras. La preocupación intergeneracional no es novedosa en el Derecho, sin embargo, debido al ascendiente número de litigios climáticos presentados por jóvenes en nombre propio y en el de las generaciones futuras para demandar mayor ambición climática han incorporado nuevas formas de observar este fenómeno. En esta contribución se lleva a cabo un estudio sobre sus implicaciones, la relevancia que puede tener el reconocimiento en normas internacionales e internas de los vínculos intergeneracionales, y cómo, a través del litigio climático, es posible vislumbrar nuevas form…
The Travel and Tourism Industry
2017
Earlier chapters focused on the intersection of terrorism and tourism, but this depends on how terrorists changed their tactics to instill terror in society. Some decades ago, terrorists selected celebrities, important persons, or chief police officers as main target of their attacks, but now this role is filled by tourists and global travellers. The situation worsened when Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi declared jihad against ‘tourism and modern hot-spots of consumption’. The concept of mobilities was historically manipulated by Western powers to impose a one-way discourse which aims to discipline the Other as inferior to European masters.
Environment and subsistence strategies at La Viña rock shelter and Llonin cave (Asturias, Spain) during MIS3
2020
The sites of La Viña and Llonin have an important archaeological sequence corresponding to Marine Isotope Stage 3: Mousterian, Aurignacian and Gravettian periods. La Viña is a complex rock shelter with continuous occupations, being some (basically the Mousterian and the Aurignacian in contact levels) altered by post-depositional processes as a consequence of the irregular bedrock morphology and the type of processes involved. The cave of Llonin mainly consists of occasional human/carnivores occupations during the Mousterian and the Gravettian. The current multidisciplinary research has allowed us to obtain and match several preliminary data: site formation processes, fauna and stable isotop…
Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy
2020
"This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either within political parties or outside the party system, involving citizen participation and mobilization (...)"