The article examines the models of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and some alterations in this field. The regional distribution of MFIs has been shown, as well as their main ties with the real economy against a background of commercial banks. The study also provide some findings on the influence of the financial crisis, which erupted in the late 2007, on the microfinance sector. Therefore, th...

The role of Network Theory in the study of the financial crisis has been widely spotted in the latest years. It has been shown how the network topology and the dynamics running on top of it can trigger the outbreak of large systemic crisis. Following this methodological perspective we introduce here the Accounting Network, i.e. the network we can extract through vector similarities techniques f...

I n mid-1998, St. John's Regional Medical Center, Joplin, M O , found itself in a financial crisis. As a result, St. John's board of directors and its parent system, Cathol ic Health Init iat ives ( C H I ) , Denver, were forced to make a set of critical decisions to avert economic disaster. To recover its market dominance, St. John's new leaders obviously needed to launch and carry through a m...

This paper quantitatively analyzes the economic resilience of resource-based cities (RBCs) in Northeast China in terms of resistance and recoverability during two economic crises: the Asian financial crisis and the global financial crisis. Moreover, it analyzes the main factors that affected regional resilience. There are three main findings. First, the RBCs in general demonstrated poor resista...

Regional Arrangements for Providing Liquidity in a Financial Crisis: Developments in Asia Graham Bird and Ramkishen S. Rajan Given its potentially global significance and the attention that there tends to be towards things that go wrong, it is hardly surprising that most of the literature dealing with economic events in East Asia during recent years has concentrated on the crisis period of 1997...

In the late years of the 1720s, parts of England were hit by one of the worst demographic crises in the early modern period. According to Wrigley and Schofield, mortality was extremely high across the Midlands, much of northern England, and parts of East Anglia.1 In fact, their aggregate sample of parish registers suggests that, in terms of deviation from background levels of mortality, the yea...

the issue of water resources and their effect on human life doesn't need any analysis and reasoning. however, such factors as population growth, improved quality of life and development of urbanization along with improved industrial and technological dimensions of human life have necessitated logical and reasonable planning for optimal use of water and water basins of the world. these fact...