- MIGA in Africa
- Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, 2005
- The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is part of the World Bank Group, mitigating political risks to investments through: Guarantees Currency inconvertibility and transfer restrictions Expropria...
- Currency / exchange rates converter (Olsen and Associates/OANDA)
- Olsen and Associates, 1999
- Promoting Primary Education for Girls in Malawi
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1999
- Evaluation of USAID GABLE programme. USAID initiatives have helped increase girls’ access to education but this success, combined with implications of a national universal education policy, is burdening an already overloaded syst...
- Format for appraisal of microfinance institutions
- R.P. Christen; B. Helms; R. Rosenberg / Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
- This Appraisal Format facilitates a complete diagnosis of a micro-finance institutions operations - ranging from governance to funding methodology to financial performance. It assumes a high level of participation on the part of MFI s...
- International Banking and Financial Market Developments [quarterly report]
- Bank for International Settlements, 1999
- Commentary on recent developments in international banking, securities and global derivatives makets It is divided into four parts. Part 1 provides an overview of the main underlying trends that appear to have emerged i...
- Core principles for effective banking supervision (BIS / Basle Committee on Banking Supervision)
- Bank for International Settlements, 1999
- Principles for the management of interest rate risk (BIS / Basle Committee on Banking Supervision)
- Bank for International Settlements, 1999
- Banking system failures in developing and transition countries: Diagnosis and predictions (Honohan / BIS)
- Bank for International Settlements, 1999
- Guide to the BIS statistics on international banking
- Bank for International Settlements, 1999
- This Guide to the BIS statistics on international banking was prepared primarily for the use of the institutions which report these data to the BIS, but is now being made more generally available as an aid for users of the statistics....
- Implications for central banks of the development of electronic money (BIS)
- Bank for International Settlements, 1999
- Striving for international competitiveness : lessons from electronics for developing countries : synthesis of findings from the research project "Technological change and the electronics sector, perspectives and policy options for newly industrialising economies"
- Jan Maarten de Vet / OECD Development Centre, 1993
- Electronics has become critically important in every country's attempt to restructure or build its competitiveness. The developments in electronics have given rise to an industry with an unprecedented growth record in terms of sales a...
- ECU exchange rates, yield, term spread and volatility
- Eurostat, 1999
- Short-Term Capital Flows, The Real Economy and Income Distribution in Developing Countries
- E.V.K. FitzGerald / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997
- The volatility of short-term capital flows (or ‘capital surges') is now recognized as a major problem for macroeconomic management in developing countries; but the consequences for the ‘real' economy - that is, the behaviour...
- Optimal pegs for Asian currencies
- A. Bénassy-Quéré / Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 1997
- It has been evidenced that the US dollar is prominent in the exchange rate regimes of Asian countries. Through cross-country estimations, we show that, in contradiction to the behaviour of European currencies vis-à-vis the Deut...
- Are currency crises predictable?
- Ilan Goldfajn / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Authorities' roles and organizational issues in systemic bank restructuring
- Peter Nyberg / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Banking crises in Latin America in the 1990s : lessons from Argentina, Paraguay, and Venezuela
- Alicia Garcia-Herrero / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper reviews three banking crises that took place in Latin America in the 1990s.those of Argentina, Paraguay, and Venezuela.and draws lessons about the factors affecting the macroeconomic impact. The causes of such crises influe...
- Capital flows and the twin crises : the role of liquidity
- Ilan Goldfajn / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Capital flows to Brazil : the endogeneity of capital controls
- Eliana A Cardoso; Ilan Goldfajn / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper investigates the determinants of capital flows to Brazil and constructs an index of capital controls that includes restrictions on both outflows and inflows. Using monthly capital flows data from the Central Bank of Brazil,...
- The CFA franc zone and the EMU
- Michael T Hadjimichael; Michel Galy / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The prospective shift of the peg of the CFA franc from the French franc to the euro raises a number of questions. Will this change require simply a decision by the CFA franc countries themselves together with France, or will it involv...
- 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
- Secretaría 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...
