Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance Amongst Rural and Community Banks in Ghana


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This study examines the connection between corporate social responsibility and firms' financial performance through competitive advantage and access to finance as mediating variables and the role of corporate governance as a moderating variable in such relationship using rural banks as study case. A sample of 126 banks were selected and data from these banks were analysed using structural equation modeling and hierarchical regression with moderation. It was found that embarking on corporate social responsibility leads to improvement in competitive advantage and gaining access to capital. These are both related to increase in corporate financial performance. The study found that business organisations that practise CSR activities turn to gain a defensible competitive position in their industry. The practice of CSR tends to create access to finance for business strategies, resulting in positive impact on financial performance depending on the efficiency of their corporate governance practices. The study recommends that activities of CSR should be integrated into firms' corporate and business level strategies. It also recommends that rural banks and the banking industry at large should adopt proper corporate governance structures to ensure judicious use of firm resources in order to enjoy improved financial performance.







Performance Of Regional Rural Banks


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Regional Rural Banks Are One Of The Financial Concepts Which Have Been The Outcome Of Considerable Financial Experience And Experimentation In Rural Finance And These Institutions Themselves, Nevertheless, Have Been The Objects Of Much Scrutiny, Analysis And Criticism. Over The Period These Banks Have Earned The Grudging Admiration Of The Planners While Continuing To Serve The Rural Masses/This Book Consists Of Five Chapters: Chapter I Presents The Background Of Regional Rural Banks Since Their Establishment, Development In The Rural Banking System, Objectives And Scope Of The Study. It Is A Sort Of Introduction To The Rural Banking System In General And Regional Rural Banks In Particular. Chapter Ii Reviews The Earlier Research Studies Conducted Elsewhere To Have A Better Insight Into The Field Of Rural Banking. Chapter Iii Devotes Itself To The Description Of The Study Area, The Sampling Techniques Employed, The Nature And Sources Of Data And The Various Tools And Techniques Used In Analyzing The Data And Evaluating The Results. Chapter Iv Deals With The Results And Discussion Of The Study. In Addition There Are Appendices For Supplementing The Study.




Performance Evaluation of Rural Banks and Thrift Banks Engaged in Microfinance Operations: for the Development of a Strategic Plan


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Banking institutions serve as intermediaries of funds to a varitey of clients, including the micro enterprisers. This study aimed to examine financial performance and techinical efficiency performance of 13 rural banks and 7 thrift banks in the Philippines with microfinance operations over the period 2003 to 2007. This study examined the financial performance of rural banks and thrift banks using financial ratios (ROE, ROA, NIM, efficiency, outreach and sustainability). The technical efficiency performance of these banks was evaluated using the conventional DEA under the variable returns to scale (VRS) input-oriented approach. These new empirical findings on the performance of the microfinance institutions using the three banking approaches are additions to the banking performance literature. The study also has forwarded specific recommendations based on derived findings and identified future research ares. The significant new findings derived in this study resulted in the development of a strategy using four quadrants of the Balanced Scorecard in order to adress the situation.




Banking Performance and Socio Economic Development


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Banking Performance and Socio Economic Development is a one-stop reference book on the beginning, development, execution, and administration of the Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) in India. It is the main book of its kind, which extensively analyzes the improvement of current banking in India since the old time frame to 2013 and birth, development, and execution of Regional Rural Banks from 1975 to 2014. It takes a gander at all the features of operations like structure, money related administration, stores, propels, NPA administration, ALM, and hazard administration hones pervasive in RRBs. It likewise depicts part of IT in RRBs. The book will fill the long-felt nonattendance of a true book on the working of RRBs of India. The book is relied upon to fill in as a handbook for the newcomers and furthermore as a kind of perspective book for the senior bankers and strategy creators. The book, rich with volumes of most recent information, gives different administrative rules relating to everyday operations, administration, and control of the provincial banks. Future Bank projects ought to likewise encourage fortify country foundations to help effective yield and info markets (for instance, arrive and rustic fund) while keeping up social and political soundness through better focused on security nets. At long last, the Bank ought to likewise fill the holes in center indicative monetary and part work by finishing an open consumption audit, with the plan to help assemble ability to organize open spending and give the premise to measures to proficiently address instruction extension.




Strategic Alliances to Scale Up Financial Services in Rural Areas


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"Business firms have employed strategic alliances with other firms to effectively manage costs, overcome resource and technology constraints, and enhance competitive position. The principle and practice of strategic alliances can be applied as well for productive and beneficial institutional collaborations in rural financial markets to expand the array of financial products and to scale up access of rural households and micro-businesses to financial services. Strategic alliances comprise a new theme in rural finance. The institutions in the study used strategic alliances to tap new capital resources, manage transaction costs, access banking technology and infrastructure and acquire new skills to provide an expanding array of financial services to wider markets. The authors carefully examine the experiences of selected rural finance institutions and their strategic allies or development partners in Guatemala, the Philippines, Ghana and India to draw out the main findings and share the lessons that may be gainfully applied in other country settings. The study addressed a number of key questions: - What motivated the rural finance institution to structure its alliance or partnership with a bank, commercial or development organization? - How are gains from and costs of alliances and partnerships shared between collaborating institutions? - What are the key elements that make partnerships or alliances successful, and which conditions lead to unproductive ones? - Which financial products and services are best introduced through strategic alliances?"







Grameen Bank


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World Bank Technical Paper No. 295. The progress made by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in privatizing state-owned enterprises has created millions of new shareholders. But for the citizenry to buy and sell shares, these countries must develop stock markets and related institutions such as brokerages, clearing and settling organizations, and regulatory agencies. This paper examines the role of capital markets in the new market economies of Central and Eastern Europe and to what extent governments in the region should encourage the development of such markets. The authors address questions of whether the capital markets will serve merely as a forum for trading stocks or become a source of new equity capital to help restructure the enterprises of the region and whether governments should take a hands-off approach by letting the necessary institutions develop as they are needed or should actively create stock exchanges and establish the overall legal and regulatory framework.