- The East Asian Currency Crisis: A Survey of the Debate on its Causes and Possible Solutions
- S. Griffith-Jones; S. Pfaffenzeller / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- This survey looks into various explanations advanced for the international and national causes of the crisis, then looks into different approaches to crisis management and prevention In spite of all the uncertainty surrounding ...
- Cost Allocation For Multi-service Micro-finance Institutions
- B.S. Helms / Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
- Presents a series of questions MFI managers should ask themselves about allocating costs and assets among costs centers. Using examples from the field and a hypothetical case called Microfem, the paper explores alternative answers to ...
- Management Information Systems for Microfinance Institutions
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
- Address common pitfalls in MIS design by targeting the two key audiences involved in an MIS-information users and systems developers. Specifically, the MIS handbook: Defines information needs and flows; Identi...
- Energy price increases in developing countries : case studies of Malaysia,Indonesia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Colombia and Turkey
- Einar Hope; Balbir Singh / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Six case studies show that raising energy prices to eliminate subsidies does not harm the poor, growth, inflation, or industrial competitiveness. And public revenues improve. When domestic energy prices in developing countries ...
- Credit where it's due: Microcredit Summit (Interaction)
- Interaction [American Council for Voluntary International Action], 1999
- Reassessing means of facilitating private sector contribution to post-war recovery
- T. Bruck; V. FitzGerald; A. Grigsby / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000
- Violent conflict has become more frequent in developing countries in the last two decades, and international support for peace making has become more important. Yet, post-war reconstruction in these countries has proven to be difficul...
- The Effects of Hyper-Inflation on Accounting Ratios Financing Corporate Growth in Industrial Economies
- V. Saporta; A. Singh / International Finance Corporation, 1997
- Hyper-inflation can have a severe distortionary effect on the pattern of corporate finance which is apparent from company accounts. A simple algorithm, based upon the method of inflation accounting applied in Brazil, is developed and ...
- Getting the private sector involved in water: what to do in the poorest of countries (WB)
- Private Sector Development Department, World Bank, 1999
- Microcredit interest rates
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1996
- Description of a model for deciding on an interest rate which makes a micro-finance lender economically sustainable. Includes worked examples and a downloadable speadsheet for calculations
- Mexican peso crisis: the foreseeable and the surprise (Brookings)
- N. Lustig / Brookings Institution, 1995
- The financial debacle that followed the Mexican devaluation in December 1994 left many analysts, investors and observers bewildered by its magnitude. This paper argues that the causes of the devaluation are quite different from the ca...
- Do food subsidies benefit the poor?
- R. H. Adams Jr. / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- Food subsidy programs are under increasing criticism in many developing countries because of their large contributions to government budget deficits. According to critics, food subsidies pose both an unnecessary burden on the public b...
- Does inflation make the poor worse off?
- W Easterly; S. Fischer / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
- Presents evidence that supports the view that inflation makes the poor worse off. The primary evidence comes from the answers to an international poll of 31,869 respondents in 38 countries. These show that the disadvantaged on ...
- Assessing Globalization: briefing papers
- Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2000
- Series of World Bank Briefing Papers looks at how to define globalization and then assesses three leading questions about globalization by looking at the evidence from a large number of countries. Is globalization incr...
- Assessing the potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development by understanding current information practices and needs
- R. Duncombe; R. Heeks / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999
- The potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development can only be assessed by first understanding current information practices and needs in such enterprises. Paper reports fin...
- Experience with cross-sector donor programmes
- M. Foster; A. Norton; A. Brown; F. Naschold / Overseas Development Institute, 2000
- Paper is an outcome of the informal Like-Minded Donor Working Group on the Implementation of Sector Wide Approaches (SWA). It sets out some of the significant challenges that are facing SWA on the basis of a survey of a wide range of ...
- Foreign Direct Investment in India: Issues and Problems.
- N Bajpai; J.D. Sachs / Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
- This paper analyses the problem of water resource sharing in Central Asia. The authors consider this problem to be especially important, since they believe that the struggle for control over water resources will be one of the main cau...
- Budgets as if people mattered: democratizing macroeconomic policies
- N. Cagatay; M Keklik; R Lal; J. Lang / Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000
- The concept of 'budgets as if people mattered' is inspired by a large number of initiatives that have emerged around the world during the last fifteen years to examine public budgets through a poverty or gender lens. As many of these ...
- HIPC Initiative will not be a lasting solution to debt problems unless accomapnied by strong economic growth
- Government Accountability Office, US Congress, 2000
- Official report prepared for the US Congress. Argues that the initiative is not likely to provide recipients with a lasting exit from their debt problems, unless they achieve strong, sustained economic growth. The main issues r...
- The Political Economy of Policy Failure in Zambia
- A. Bigsten; S. Kayizzi-Mugerwa / Swedish Working Papers in Economics, 2000
- Zambia’s experience in the 1990s illustrates that, on their own, policy changes will not redress decades of mismanagement, especially when the degree of commitment of the elite remains unaltered. In 1991, the Movement for ...
- Global Financial Crises: Institutions and Incentives
- Manmohan S. Kumar; Paul R. Masson; Marcus Miller / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2000
- Argues that the recommendations of the Meltzer Committee report (unconditional financial support for pre-qualifying countries) would lead to an increase in financial stability. There is a need for an effective lender of last re...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Development bank of Latin America
- SecretarÃa General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID. The IGC has 13 active country programmes in 12 countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Bihar state and Central), Mozambiqu...
- University of Western Australia
- Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (FS UNEP)
- Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance is a strategic cooperation between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Frankfurt School).
- 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...
