The light of the Cross in the Twentieth Century : the influence of the Church on modern civilization, her treatment of the great moral and social problems of our time, by master minds, the foundations, history and progress of her great educational institutions in the United States, her great religious orders of men and women for spreading the Gospel and teaching secular and religious knowledge, the history of the organization, development and aims of the great Catholic fraternal societies of the United States and their national federation with many other important subjects, the teachings of the Church made manifest to the modern mind /

Contents: v. 3. The glorious teachings of our holy religion

Social change in communications-oriented institutions.

Includes bibliographical references.

Charity and social life; a short study of religious and social thought in relation to charitable methods and institutions,

"The book is for the most part a reprint of an article on 'Charity and charities ̓which was first published in 1902 in the supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia britannica."--Pref.

Professional course for service among immigrants; prepared for the use of colleges and universities, schools of civics and philanthropy, to fit men and women for service among immigrants. Adapted also for study by clubs, institutions and conferences of workers of social organizations.

On cover: Prepared for the United States Bureau of Education by the Committee for Immigrants in America.

Illustrated Cincinnati; a pictorial hand-book of the Queen city, comprising its architecture, manufacture, trade; its social, literary, scientific, and charitable institutions; its churches, schools and colleges; and all other principal points of interest to the visitor and resident, together with an account of the most attractive suburbs,

"Advertisements": p. 347-368.

Address on the power and value of the Sunday school system in evangelizing heathen and re-constructing Christian communitys, by an improvement of the religion and morals, the education and literature, and the social, civil and political institutions of every people : and on the Southern enterprise of the American Sunday school union ; delivered in the Lutheran Church, City of Charleston, on Monday evening, March 17, 1834 /

Author's presentation copy.

The United States of America; their history from the earliest period; their industry, commerce, banking transactions, and national works; their institutions and character, political, social, and literary: with a survey of the territory, and remarks on the prospects and plans of emigrants.

Added t.-p., illustrated.

Social aspects of religious institutions,

Bibliography: p. 149-150.

Institutions and social entrepreneurship:the role of institutional voids, institutional support, and institutional configurations

We develop the institutional configuration perspective to understand which national contexts facilitate social entrepreneurship (SE). We confirm joint effects on SE of formal regulatory (government activism), informal cognitive (postmaterialist cultural values), and informal normative (socially supportive cultural norms, or weak-tie social capital) institutions in a multilevel study of 106,484 individuals in 26 nations. We test opposing propositions from the institutional void and institutional support perspectives. Our results underscore the importance of resource support from both formal and informal institutions, and highlight motivational supply side influences on SE. They advocate greater consideration of institutional configurations in institutional theory and comparative entrepreneurship research.

Entrepreneurship, social capital, and institutions:social and commercial entrepreneurship across nations

We model and test the relationship between social and commercial entrepreneurship drawing on social capital theory. We propose that the country prevalence rate of social entrepreneurship is an indicator of constructible nation-level social capital and enhances the likelihood of individual commercial entry. We further posit that both social and commercial entrepreneurial entry is facilitated by certain formal institutions, namely strong property rights and (low) government activism, albeit the latter impacts each of these types of entrepreneurship differently. We apply bivariate discrete choice multilevel modeling to population-representative samples in 47 countries and find support for these hypotheses. © 2013 Baylor University.

Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions:a Data Envelopment Analysis application

Microfinance has been developed as alternative solution for global poverty alleviation effort in the last 30 years. Microfinance institution (MFI) has unique characteristic wherein they face double bottom line objectives of outreach to the poor and financial sustainability. This study proposes a two-stage analysis to measure Islamic Microfinance institutions (IMFIs) performance by comparing them to conventional MFIs. First, we develop a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework to measure MFIs' efficiency in its double bottom line objectives, i.e. in terms of social and financial efficiency. In the second stage non-parametric tests are used to compare the performance and identify factors that contribute to the efficiency of IMFIs and MFIs.

La bancarisation des tontine : une alternative de développement économique et social et une réponse à la crise de nos institutions financières

Face aux difficultés auxquelles sont confrontées pratiquement toutes les économies mondiales, ce mémoire propose dans le cas spécifique du Cameroun une modeste solution visant à résorber l'état de crise qui traverse l'ensemble de notre système financier. La crise des institutions financières camerounaises est caractérisée à la fois par la défaillance et la dégradation du secteur bancaire moderne, ainsi que par l'insuffisance de mécanismes adaptés à la collecte de l'épargne intérieure. Compte tenu de cette situation on ne peut plus alarmante, il apparaît inévitable et propice en raison même du caractère concret des problèmes de dysfonctionnement, qu'il faille réorganiser en profondeur les mécanismes de gestion et de collecte de l'épargne traditionnelle en les adaptant plus sainement non seulement aux exigences réelles de développement, mais surtout aux mentalités et aux habitudes de la population camerounaise. En d'autres termes, il est temps que les autorités camerounaises, de concert avec les autres agents économiques songent à une nouvelle pratique bancaire qui corresponde véritablement à la majorité des préoccupations socio-économiques de la population. Dans cette perspective, la ligne directrice de notre sujet de recherche repose sur un processus de recyclage local de l'épargne privée, dans le but de créer un cadre monétaire et financier optimal pour l'épargne et le crédit. Comme c'est le cas dans les économies en voie de développement, nous pensons que les comportements d'épargne au Cameroun demandent aussi à être développés et surtout orientés, pour que nos décisions individuelles d'investissement correspondent aux objectifs globaux de la production nationale. C'est dans ce sens que les institutions monétaires et financières se doivent de jouer un rôle déterminant. Les pays membres de la zone BEAC ont cette particularité qu'ils coexistent dans leurs économies des secteurs financiers formels et informels, dualistes ou complémentaires. Au Cameroun en l'occurrence, le système financier formel comprend outre la Banque Centrale, des banques commerciales, des banques de développement, ainsi que des institutions financières non monétaires. En marge à ces systèmes formels, existent des systèmes financiers informels caractérisés principalement par les tontines. Les deux types d'organisations concourent à leur manière et suivant leurs pratiques de fonctionnement au financement de l'économie, tant au niveau de la mobilisation des ressources (collecte de l'épargne) que de la distribution des liquidités (octroi de crédit). Le défi de ce mémoire consiste à présenter une approche plausible de développement économique et social basée sur une liaison effective entre les deux systèmes financiers.

The Return of Institutions. On the Latest Change in the Research on Social and Economic Development

The paper describes the latest change in the research on social and economic development of states. This change is characterized mainly by a strong emphasis put on the role of institutions as key instruments of reducing the development gap between countries. It is argued that in the years after 1989 institutions have disappeared from mainstream academia and major intellectual debates because of: (1) the widespread belief in global convergence of capitalism and (2) the modernization theory which prevailed in the social science in the 1990s. The article indicates that institutions were once again brought into focus as a result of (1) a wider debate about the institutional sources of growth and development sparked by Acemoglu and Robinson’s Why Nations Fail, (2) the beginning of the global economic crisis of 2008 triggered by the fall of American investment bank Lehman Brothers (3) diversified consequences of the economic crisis seen all over Europe and the USA which illustrate (4) the institutional varieties of capitalism.