- 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.
- The Real Exchange Rate in India: Determinants and Targeting ( Patel / Srivastava / CEP)
- Centre for Economic Performance, London, 1997
- The paper studies the behaviour of the real exhange rate (RER) in India. The first part investigates the role of important macroeconomic (behaviour and policy) variables in explaining the movement of the RER. It is found that the inve...
- Social dimensions of adjustment: a general assessment
- Information Bank on African Development Studies, 1999
- International agreements in the area of banking and finance: accomplishments and outstanding issues (White / BIS)
- Bank for International Settlements, 1999
- Trade Flow and Foreign Direct Investment in APEC Region (Okuda / IDE)
- APEC Study Centre, 1999
- Microcredit in China: digest of externally funded projects (China Briefing)
- China Development Brief, 1999
- 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...
- 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...
