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IMF ecourages monetary policy that is detrimental so sub-Saharan Africa

Emphasis and encouragement of monetary policy in sub-Saharan Africa is often misplaced. It tends to leave inflation and real exchange rates unchanged whilst having an adverse impact on public debt servicing.

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Seasonal and extreme poverty in Bangladesh : evaluating an ultra-poor microfinance project: 2010; Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike regula...
India & Bangladesh: bilateral trade- potential free trade agreement: 2006; India and Bangladesh have long shared common objectives for closer economic integration within the South Asia region and trade between the two countries has grown rapidly since the early 1990s. A free...
Economics and governance of nongovernmental organizations in Bangladesh: 2006; Bangladesh has made striking progress on a range of social indicators over the last 15 years, an achievement widely credited to the country's pluralist service provision regime. Nongovernmental organi...
Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean: A. Calderon / United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean , 2011; FDI into Latin America and the Caribbean reached US$113bn in 2010, 40% up from 2009, and is expected to grow by 15-25% in 2011. FDI outflows from Latin American economies grew even more, to reach US$4...
Living on a Spike: N Hossain / Oxfam, 2011; The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in glo...
Linking research to policy: The African Development Bank as a knowledge broker: B. Jones / African Development Bank , 2011; Since 2006, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been positioning itself as a regional Bank for knowledge and ideas on African development. For the Bank, this implies more creative use of knowledge...
Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion - A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries: I. Ortiz / United Nations Children's Fund, 2011; This working paper: (i) provides an overview of global, regional and national income inequalities based on the latest distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Eurostat; (ii) discusses the ...
Prioritizing Expenditures for a Recovery for All: A Rapid Review of Public Expenditures in 126 Developing Countries: I. Ortiz / United Nations Children's Fund, 2010; This working paper examines the extent to which fiscal consolidation is occuring in 2010-11 among 126 low and middle-income countries, and the potential risks for children and poor households at a tim...
Bangladesh: strategy for sustained growth: World Bank, 2007; The premise of the report is that Bangladesh could join the ranks of middle-income countries (MICs) within a decade or some time soon after. It has the necessary assets: much-improved economic fundame...
ICT for development in education, health, finance and agriculture: A. D. Carvalho;H. N. Partner;L. Klarsfeld;H. P. Manager;F. Lepicard / 2012; The report reflects a cocreation process with social entrepreneurs, ICT for experts, experts of each of the development fields within the scope of education, health, financial services and agriculture...