Domestic finance
- 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...
- 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...
- Asia’s demographic transition will adversely affect its economic growth
- D. Park; K. Shin / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Population ageing affects growth through savings, capital accumulation, labour force participation, and total factor productivity. This paper examines the impact of ageing on those four channels in 12 developing Asian economies that c...
- Experiences of matching defined contribution pension schemes
- World Bank, 2013
- Matching defined contribution schemes are gaining popularity in both rich and poor countries as a promising means to reduce gaps in the participation in formal pension systems. Matching contributions by employers, the government, or b...
- Giving state-owned enterprises in Kiribati and Tuvalua a clear commercial mandate is a fundamental basis for improving performance
- Asian Development Bank, 2012
- The efficiency and effectiveness of a country’s public sector is vital to its development, where poorly performing state-owned enterprise (SOEs) absorb large amounts of scarce capital, on which they provide very low returns. Thi...
- Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up low-carbon energy
- C. Polycarp; L. Brown; X. Fu-Bertaux 2013
- It is estimated that developing countries need US$ 531 billion per year additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies, between now and 2050, in order to limit global temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industria...
- PACER Plus states and trade negotiations
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2009
- Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus is a regional economic agreement. This paper figures that the experience of negotiating a trade deal between this bloc and the EU alerted trade officials and civil society gr...
- The effects of microfinance on household debt in rural India
- T.K. Sarangi (ed) / Eldis Document Store, 2012
- Over the past few years, a drastic change has occurred in the nature of financial services for the rural poor in India. Microfinance has witnessed an explosion in popularity, with the total number of people served by Microfinance Inst...
- 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...
- 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...
- Asia’s demographic transition will adversely affect its economic growth
- D. Park; K. Shin / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Population ageing affects growth through savings, capital accumulation, labour force participation, and total factor productivity. This paper examines the impact of ageing on those four channels in 12 developing Asian economies that c...
- Experiences of matching defined contribution pension schemes
- World Bank, 2013
- Matching defined contribution schemes are gaining popularity in both rich and poor countries as a promising means to reduce gaps in the participation in formal pension systems. Matching contributions by employers, the government, or b...
- Giving state-owned enterprises in Kiribati and Tuvalua a clear commercial mandate is a fundamental basis for improving performance
- Asian Development Bank, 2012
- The efficiency and effectiveness of a country’s public sector is vital to its development, where poorly performing state-owned enterprise (SOEs) absorb large amounts of scarce capital, on which they provide very low returns. Thi...
- Mobilizing climate investment: the role of international climate finance in creating scaled-up low-carbon energy
- C. Polycarp; L. Brown; X. Fu-Bertaux 2013
- It is estimated that developing countries need US$ 531 billion per year additional investment in energy supply and demand technologies, between now and 2050, in order to limit global temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industria...
- PACER Plus states and trade negotiations
- Pacific Institute of Public Policy, 2009
- Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus is a regional economic agreement. This paper figures that the experience of negotiating a trade deal between this bloc and the EU alerted trade officials and civil society gr...
- The effects of microfinance on household debt in rural India
- T.K. Sarangi (ed) / Eldis Document Store, 2012
- Over the past few years, a drastic change has occurred in the nature of financial services for the rural poor in India. Microfinance has witnessed an explosion in popularity, with the total number of people served by Microfinance Inst...
- India Post
- Indian Government department running postal services, part of Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & IT.
- BBVA Research (BBVA)
- Research wing of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, a multinational banking and financial services organisation. Originally Spanish, it has a major presence in Latin America. Research outputs cover: Macroeconomic Analysis Sectorial Analysis Global Trends Pensions
- Global Extension of Social Security
- GESS is a global knowledge sharing platform on the extension of social security and aims to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, capture and document experiences, identify knowledge gaps, create new knowledge and promote innovation. To achieve this goal, GESS relies on the contributions of its users and the dialogue and exchange between them. This platform, developed and r...
- Retirement Security Project, Brookings
- The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers. Nearly half of all workers do not have access to an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan, those that do often fail to participate. To address these trends, RSP proposes research-based policies aimed at helping middle- and low-income Americans prepare...
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Organisation collecting data on the people and economy of the United States. Data includes: Population & Housing Census - every 10 years Economic Census - every 5 years American Communtity Survey - annually Other demographic & economic surveys Economic Indicators - each indicator is released on a specific...
- PensionReforms
- Online resource centre covering pensions issues. Site contains collections of papers searchable by country, topic, author(s), institution producing the publication, year published. Site is run by Retirement Policy and Research Centre, School of Business at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Retirement Policy and Research Centre (RPRC)
- New Zealand's ageing population poses many economic challenges. The RPRC is an academically focused centre specialising in the economic issues of demographic change. The RPRC's sphere of interest includes public provision of retirement income (New Zealand superannuation) and the accumulation and decumulation phases of retirement saving. International debate is facilitated through pensionreforms, a...
- Population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS
- The population Ageing and Sustainable Livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDS project was funded by the ESRC and ran from August 2005 until November 2006. Hosted at University of Sheffield. Website includes briefing notes: Project Outline Briefing Note 1 Methodology Briefing Note 1a Elderly Headed Households Profile Briefing Note 2...
- Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)
- Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the family and the state by organising conferences, seminars and research on these themes. Acts as a network for the activities of five Italian universities.
- Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
- The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg. The LIS archive contains two primary databases. The LIS Database includes income microdata from a large number of countries at multiple points in time. The newer LWS Database includes wealth microdata from a smaller selection of countries. Both databases include labour market and demographic data as wel...
