Financial Performance And Corporate Governance In Microfinance: Who Drives Who? An Evidence From Asia
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Keywords
Microfinance; Corporate Governance; Financial Performance; Endogeneity; Asia;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2015-07-04 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CFN-2015-07-04 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-MFD-2015-07-04 (Microfinance)
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