Examines the impacts of organizational governance on the outreach capabilities and sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. Microfinance institutions are NGOs, banks, credit cooperatives, or nonbank financial institutions...

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...