- Understanding Impact: Experiences and Lessons from the Small Enterprise Foundation’s Poverty-Alleviation Programme, Tšhomišano
- Anton Simanowitz / Small Enterprise Foundation, 1999
- Paper produced for the Third Virtual Meeting of the CGAP Working Group on Impact Assessment Methodologies. Describes the implementation of microfinance programme and discusses the measurement of it's impact.
- Assessing the efficiency and outreach of micro-finance schemes
- Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996
- Focuses on the ability of credit unions to efficiently handle loans to microenterprises, by sighting both their strengths and weaknesses. The discussion begins with a historical background on credit unions and microenterprises, follow...
- IMF study admits that country-based evidence now suggests that controlling both the inflows and outflows of capital has, to varying degrees, helped countries to protect themselves from the effects of the Asian financial crisis.
- A. Ariyoshi; K. Habermeier; B. Laurens; I. Otker-Robe; J.I. Canales-Kriljenko; A. Kirilenko / International Monetary Fund, 2000
- Aims to develop a deeper understanding of the role that capital controls may play in coping with volatile movements of capital, as well as complex issues surrounding capital account liberalization. It provides a detailed analysis of s...
- Information on 83 of the just over 100 ‘real’ privatisations occurring in Tanzania from January 1992 to June 1998.
- P. Gibbon / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
- Information is supplemented by a sketch of the non-privatisation based foreign direct investment (FDI) position over the same period. Privatisation revenue roughly accounted for a third to a half of all FDI. Projects in the agro-based...
- Examines trends in the African mining sector in Africa, in contexts of global trends in mining investment and the international isolation of the South African mining industry.
- M Ericsson; T Tegen / Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999
- Paper describes in detail the current structure of ownership and control in African mining and mining processing, post-1994 restructuring in the South African industry, the current exploration boom in Africa and the tension between la...
- What effects have one of the largest providers of micro-credit to the poor in Bangladesh had on poverty?
- H. Zaman / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Presents the main argument that micro-credit contributes to mitigating a number of factors that contribute to vulnerability, whereas the impact on income-poverty is a function of borrowing beyond a certain loan threshold and to a cert...
- How do we begin to strengthen our ability to assess and improve our government's budget?
- S. Falk; I. Shapiro / International Budget Partnership, 1999
- Introduction to the activities and approach an organization might want to undertake in its first few years of budget work. The purpose is to present a systematic overview of the different aspects of effective budget analysis, with an ...
- Which of the Indian states are best at implementiung policy reform?
- N. Bajpai; J.D. Sachs / Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999
- The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms. Greater decentralization of decisi...
- Seven recipes for success in “unorthodox” microfinance
- D.C. Richardson / Microbanking Bulletin, 2000
- Argues for a radical reform of the orthodox approach of using financial services to achieve poverty alleviation. prospect of a competitive market with different institutional players Many credit unions are sceptical of conventi...
- 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...
- Economic growth and the real exchange rate: an overview of the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis in Asia
- T Ito; P. Isard; S. Symansky / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1997
- The paper tests the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis (rapid economic growth is accompanied by real exchange rate appreciation because of differential productivity growth between tradable and nontradable sectors) using data of the APEC eco...
- Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) Negotiating Text
- Multilateral Agreement on Investment, 1998
- This document consolidates the text of the agreement considered in the course of the MAI negotiations so far. This text results mainly from the work of expert groups and has not yet been adopted by the MAI Negotiating Group. It is pre...
- Business and biodiversity: a guide for the private sector
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 1997
- This guide has been devised specifically to represent business interests, to tell business people how to become more engaged in implementing the Convention, and to encourage the private sector to contribute its valuable experience to ...
- Trade and Environment: A Business Perspective
- K. Erlam; L. Plass / World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 1997
- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development rejects the notion of a trade versus environment debate.This report sets out directions and opportunities that can lead to mutual support between environmental protection and impr...
- White Paper on Japan's Foreign Direct Investment 1998: summary
- Japan External Trade Organisation, 1998
- With a focus on Japan, considers trends in global foreign direct investment, and offers a country/region overview. Includes supporting statistical data.
- Must globalisation force poor countries to suffer poor air quality?
- D Wheeler / New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000
- This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by e...
- Structural adjustment and agriculture in Guyana: From crisis to recovery
- J. Loxley; V. Jamal / Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 1999
- Documents the decline and rise of the Guyanese economy, with particular focus on the agricultural sector and its contribution to employment creation and poverty alleviation. The demarcation line between decline and recovery is put at ...
- Sustainability of private capital flows to developing countries : is ageneralized reversal likely?
- Leonardo Hernandez; Heinz Rudolph / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Developing countries that undertake adequate domestic reform should continue to expect capital inflows, despite recent events in Mexico and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board's raising of interest rates during 1994. Since 1989, pri...
- 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...
