- Towards a new international financial architecture: Report of the Task Force of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 1999
- Recommendations on new institutions needed to cope with finanancial globalisation, and to avoid crises such those in East Asia and Latin America
- The Asian currency crises: lessons for an early warning system
- F. Jotzo / National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1999
- Is it possible to devise a funtioning early warning system for currency crises, and is there a role for the analysis of indicators beyond economic fundamentals? In light of the Asian crisis, the issue is examined both theoretically an...
- Zambia’s Credit Management Services: micro-credit schemes for women entrepreneurs
- D.T. Musona; D.M. Mboz / Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1999
- Credit Management Services Limited (CMS) was established in 1992 as a subsidiary of Molver and Company, a Zambian accounting company. It provides lending services through four schemes: the Mpongwe Smallholder Marketing Fund, the Mpong...
- The continuing Asian financial crisis: global adjustment and trade
- M. Noland; S. Robinson; Z Wang / Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999
- Uses a multi-region computable general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of the Asian crisis thus far, highlighting the implications of possible future developments in Japan and China. The main conclusion is that depreciation of...
- Dollarization in emerging-market economies and its policy impact for the United States
- C.F. Bergsten / Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999
- Reviews the case for/against maintaining a national currency in the context of high levels of de facto dollarisation, the role of currency boards and the likely impacts on the USA
- Country Risks and the Investment Activities of U.S. Multinationals in Developing Countries
- A. Lehmann / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1999
- Examines the uneven distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) over developing countries. Finds that country-specific risk, arising from political and macroeconomic uncertainty is a major cause of this distribution. Argues...
- Migrant Worker Remittances, Micro-finance and the Informal Economy: Prospects and Issues
- S. Puri; T. Ritzema / Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1999
- The conventional approach to analysing the impact of remittances on the domestic economies of labour-sending countries focuses exclusively on officially recorded flows and their effects on the various economic aggregates in the formal...
- The use of control groups in impact assessments for microfinance
- P. Mosley / Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1998
- Looks into the barriers which are encountered in the use of impact assessments to evaluate microfinance programs, more specifically the difficulties encountered in the control group, a method employed to compare a population that had ...
- Microfinance in the Wake of Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities
- K. Doyle / microLINKS,, 1998
- Overview of the rapidly evolving practice of microfinance and microenterprise development in post-conflict situations Documents the surprisingly few preconditions these programs consider essential to initiate a microenterprise ...
- Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda
- United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999
- District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods an...
- Policy reform, adjustment costs, and investment : with activity of local investors as a signal
- Omotunde E. G Johnson / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Public disclosure and bank failures
- Tito Cordella; E.L Yeyati / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The scope for inflation targeting in developing countries
- Paul R Masson; S Sharma; M.A. Savastano / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Difficulties in conducting monetary policy using an exchange rate peg or some monetary aggregate as the main intermediate target led a number of industrial countries in the 1990s to adopt a framework for monetary policy that has becom...
- Some evidence on exchange rate determination in major industrial countries
- R. B Johnston; S Yan / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Tax burden and migration : a political economy perspective
- Assaf Razin; E Sadka / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Tax effort in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Janet Gale Stotsky; A WoldeMariam / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Many sub-Saharan African countries face difficulty in raising tax revenue for public purposes. Low per capita incomes, an economic base in subsistence agriculture, poorly structured tax systems, and weak tax and customs administration...
- Vertical tax externalities in the theory of fiscal federalism
- Michael Keen / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Foreign Direct Investment Flows to Low-income Countries: A Review of the Evidence
- Overseas Development Institute, 1997
- Foreign direct investment is viewed as a major stimulus to economic growth in developing countries. Its ability to deal with two major obstacles, namely, shortages of financial resources and technology and skills, has made it the cent...
- The Mexican Peso Crisis? How Much Did We Know? When Did We Know It?
- S. Edwards / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1997
- The Mexican crisis of 1994 raised throughout the world a number of questions about the sustainability -- and even the merits -- of the market oriented reform process in Latin America and other regions. Understanding how events unfolde...
- Whither the World Bank and the IMF?
- A.O. Krueger / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1997
- On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to mark the occasion and to consider, often critically roles and performance. This paper reviews the functions of the t...
- 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...
