- 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...
- 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...
- Expanding microfinance in Latin America’s rural areas
- M. Jaramillo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Rural finance has the potential to help poor people out of poverty, and Latin America has met that challenge in some unique ways.This Brief by discusses impacts of microfinance’s in rural areas, presenting evidence on rural pove...
- Latin America's institutional and regulatory innovations for microfinance growth
- M. Jaramillo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Current microfinance sector performance is associated with the reforms of Latin American countries’ financial sectors that started at the end of the 1980s. Before the reforms, development of microfinance was constrained by an ov...
- Guide to microfinance in Latin America
- M. Jaramillo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- There are some unique features of Latin America’s recent microfinance evolution, including innovations in regulations and technology, that may provide interesting lessons for other regions. Key lessons: ...
- Final Impact Evaluation of the Saving for Change Program in Mali, 2009-2012
- 2013
- Saving for Change (SfC) is a community savings group programme designed and implemented by Oxfam America, Freedom from Hunger, and the Strømme Foundation. SfC operates in 13 countries in West Africa, Latin America and Asia. ...
- How best to measure pension adequacy
- A.G. Grech / Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and R, 2013
- Though the main benchmark used to assess pension reforms continues to be the expected resulting fall in future government spending, the impact of policy changes on pension adequacy is increasingly coming to the for...
- What next for the BRICS Bank?
- N. Watson; M. Younis; S. Spratt / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- A new development bank to be created by the ‘Rising Powers’ of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) is intended to promote greater cooperation between developing countries, and address what is seen by many...
- Asian development outlook 2013: Asia’s energy challenge
- Asian Development Bank, 2013
- The Asian Development Outlook 2013 provides a comprehensive economic analysis at both regional- and country-levels. It begins by outlining the economic status of the region before examining the goals, challenges and strategies of stak...
- Unburnable carbon 2013: wasted capital and stranded assets
- London School of Economics, 2013
- According to this report, despite fossil fuel reserves already far exceeding the carbon budget to avoid global warming of more than two degrees Celsius, US$674 billion was spent in 2012 finding and developing new potentially stranded ...
- Papua New Guinea has strong economic growth yet marginalised remote areas
- M.E. Khan; Y. Niimi; M.R.M. Cham / Asian Development Bank, 2012
- Papua New Guinea (PNG) has enjoyed several years of strong economic growth, driven largely by high commodity prices and supported by structural reforms and some sound macroeconomic policies. However, the growing opportunities and weal...
- Framework for assessing the effectiveness of national institutions to deliver climate finance
- N. Bird; H. Tilley; N. C. Trujillo / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- This paper presents a framework for measuring the effectiveness of national systems that deliver public climate finance; an approach that incorporates the policy environment, institutional architecture and the public financial system ...
- 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...
