Financial institutions as an example of institutions of public trust

Models of Rural Financial Institutions

Investigating the performance of Qarzat al-Hasna institutions in production as micro-financing institutions in Iran

The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of Qarzat al-Hasna institutions as microfinance institutions in Iran. For this purpose, the statistical information of the country's banking system in the period 2009 to 2020 and the panel data method were used. In order to estimate this relationship, diagnostic tests were performed on the research variables and finally the experiment...

Public Diplomacy and its Institutions in United States of America

Although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. The most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the US, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as Public Diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

We document that trust in public institutions—and particularly trust in banks, business and government—has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of the Great Recession, and those countries whose unemployment grew the most suffered the biggest loss ...

International financial institutions and human rights: implications for public health

Serving as lender of last resort to countries experiencing unsustainable levels of public debt, international financial institutions have attracted intense controversy over the past decades, exemplified most recently by the popular discontent expressed in Eurozone countries following several rounds of austerity measures. In exchange for access to financial assistance, borrowing countries must s...