- Treating electricity as a strategic commodity has stalled South Asian energy cooperation
- O. Gippner / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2010
- Reliable energy supply is needed to alleviate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth. This paper assesses the barriers to regional energy cooperation in South Asia Growth focusing particularly on Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and...
- Improving remittance utilisation is crucial to combat migration’s adverse effects in South Asia
- D. Premaratne; D.D. Mel / South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment, 2009
- Global migration flows have increased in magnitude and complexity due to economic and human security factors, both at sending and receiving ends. This paper explores the trends, nature and role of migration and remittances in South As...
- Tanzanian microfinance institution overestimates agricultural credit risks
- R. Weber; O. Musshoff / AgEcon Search, 2012
- The commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Tanzania deserves special attention. This paper investigates whether Tanzanian agricultural firms have a different probability to get a loan and whether their loans are differently volu...
- Demographic pressures and the sustainability of social security in Emerging Europe and Central Asia
- 2012
- How serious are the long-term effects of population ageing in the emerging economies of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia? This paper investigates long-term effects of population ageing in a number of eme...
- The Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012
- World Economic Forum, 2011
- This report contributes to the understanding of the key factors determining economic growth, helps to explain why some countries are more successful than others in raising income levels and opportunities for their respective populatio...
- Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society (LEPAS)
- The EU member countries will be increasingly populated by older people. Nearly 25 percent of people in the European Union in 2030 can be above age 65, up from about 17 percent in 2005. Europe's old-age dependency ratio (the number of people age 65 and older compared with the number of working-age people ages 15-64) could more than double by 2050, from one in every four to fewer than one in every t...
- Department of Economics, Towson University
- Centre for Development Finance (CDF)
- The Centre for Development Finance focuses on improving the delivery of public goods that contribute to inclusive social and economic opportunity in India.
- ICTs And Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis With Panal Data
- ARPN Journal of Science and Technology, 2012
- The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of ICTs on growth by development level. We use a panel data for a sample of 48 countries during 1995-2006. We present our empirical methodology to test and compare the effects of ICTs ...
- Introducing social pension programs for informal sector workers − an economic distorter but welfare generator
- J. Jung; C. Tran / Department of Economics, Towson University, 2011
- Individuals in developing countries face a shortage of formal risk-sharing instruments and therefore rely largely on informal cash transfers from family members for insurance purposes. This paper studies the effects of introducing a s...
- World economic and social survey 2012: in search of new development finance
- United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division, 2012
- The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) 2012 focuses on innovative ways to finance sustainable development. It notes that while the need for aid remains high, many donors have cut back on development assistance due to difficult fi...
- Study on ICT based financial inclusion through BC-Impediments and Corrective Actions
- L. M. Ganesan 2011
- The objectives of the study were to identify the field level problems and make suggestions for resolving these problems so that financial inclusion could be expedited and completed in a time bound manner, thus paving the way for the r...
- Mobile Banking and Financial Inclusion: The Regulatory Lessons
- M. Klein / World Bank, 2011
- Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service. This paper sets out a framework for con...
- Access to finance for SMEs: a global agenda
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK, 2012
- This paper presents the ACCA Global Forum for SMEs’ recommendations for the development of a visible and consistent global agenda on SME access to finance. It calls for intergovernmental organisations to develop and support a con...
- Utilising the geographic position of landlocked developing countries as a stimulus to develop compensating mechanisms
- M. Fujita / United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2003
- Thirty countries are currently designated by the United Nations as landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), and the Millennium Declaration called for a global partnership to address the special needs of these countries. This study foc...
- Why The IMF And The International Monetary System Need More Than Cosmetic Reform | South Centre
- South Centre, 2010
- This South Centre report argues that the G20 agenda misses some of the key issues that need to be dealt with in order to effectively reform the international monetary system so as to avert future global financial crises. The missing i...
- The Impact of Demographic Change, Co-morbidity and European Care Policies on the Choice of Care Arrangement
- A Meng 2010
- An analysis of the determinants of care provision, looking at informal care, professional home-based care and formal nursing care.
- The future of the public sector pensions: final report
- Pension Policy Institute, UK, 2010
- This report on the future of the public sector pension schemes identifies policy objectives that any Government considering further reforms to the public sector pensions might aim to address, identifies a set of possible further refor...
- The impact of population ageing on international capital flows
- A Narciso / Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2010
- This paper studies the relationship between demographical factors and international capital flows. It analyses the impact of ageing on foreign direct investments (FDI) and foreign portfolio investments (FPI) on a bilateral level. Resu...
- Reporting tax research: Connecting researchers and journalists for improved media coverage and debate in Kenya
- Panos Institute, London, 2010
- This case study describes some of the methods and activities developed by the Relay programme, managed by Panos London, and how they were applied in Kenya to the issue of tax and governance. It offers a detailed and descriptive accoun...
- Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) (FMO)
- Supporting the private sector in developing countries and emerging markets
- Global Information on MicroInsurance
- Resources and services for microinsurance
- Blackwell Synergy
- Online journals from Blackwells
- Gulf Research Centre (GRC)
- Research institute in Dubai doing research relevant to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries
