Financial crisis
- The importance of social protection systems in encouraging fairer division of paid and unpaid work
- United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009
- This paper links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of recent crisis. The report notices that the different stat...
- Creating a suitability standard for reverse mortgages and equity conversion products
- T. Twomey; R. Jurgens / National Consumer Law Center, 2009
- This paper claims that the consumer protections built into the old reverse mortgages programme are being eclipsed by the drive to exploit senior home equity by major banks and insurance companies, among others. The paper indicates tha...
- How can Heavily Indebted Poor Countries tackle their burgeoning debt?
- A. Presbitero (ed) / Money and Finance Research group, 2009
- The current debt crisis in the Heavily Indebted and Poor Countries (HIPC) is hindering economic growth due to increasing bilateral loans and concessional lending, lack of macroeconomic adjustments and structural reforms in the HIPC. T...
- Conflict and state fragility: assessing the impact of the financial crisis on Africa
- S. Bakrania; B. Lucas / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2009
- It was thought that Sub-Saharan Africa would be largely unaffected by the financial crisis. However, as many Sub-Saharan African countries are dependent on foreign finance inflows and are even more dependent on commodity based ex...
- How does the economic crisis impact on child health, education, labour and family livelihoods?
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2009
- This document outlines the discussions and recommendations of the "Impact of the Economic Crisis on Children in East Asia and the Pacific Islands" conference, convened by UNICEF. The conference dealt with the crisis and its impacts on...
- How will the financial crisis affect fragile states in Africa?
- I. Othieno / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- This commentary brief considers the risks of the global financial crisis to fragile states, particularly in Africa. The author writes that it poses a serious threat to global peace and security and has the potential to creat...
- Protecting the poor and marginalised in Arab countries in light of the global economic crisis
- K. Mohamadieh; O. Pearce / Arab NGO Network for Development, 2009
- Countries in the Arab region are particularly vulnerable to the fallout of the global economic crisis as a result of already existing high levels of unemployment, dependency on food imports, widespread conflict and political insecurit...
- How to speed up Africa's recovery from the global financial crisis
- A. Fosu (ed); W. Naudé (ed) / United Nations University, 2009
- African economies have been shaken by the global economic downturn which followed the US-centered financial crisis of 2008. Africa’s growth rate for 2009 and 2010 has recently been revised substantially downwards by internationa...
- Financial crisis will impact trade, migration and remittance in Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2009
- Since the collapse of the United States sub prime mortgage market and the subsequent international global crisis, many developed and developing countries have been plunged into deep recession. Bangladesh, whose economy is less depende...
- Taking a multi pronged approach to tackling food insecurity in Arab countries
- J. Lampietti; N. Magnan; S. Michaels; et al. / World Bank Publications, 2009
- Arab countries are more exposed than other countries to severe swings in agricultural commodity prices due to the high level of food imports, especially cereals, and continued population growth and urbanisation. Countries need to act ...
- The importance of social protection systems in encouraging fairer division of paid and unpaid work
- United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009
- This paper links trends in poverty and income distribution with social protection systems, placing special emphasis on how these systems have responded to the social impacts of recent crisis. The report notices that the different stat...
- Creating a suitability standard for reverse mortgages and equity conversion products
- T. Twomey; R. Jurgens / National Consumer Law Center, 2009
- This paper claims that the consumer protections built into the old reverse mortgages programme are being eclipsed by the drive to exploit senior home equity by major banks and insurance companies, among others. The paper indicates tha...
- How can Heavily Indebted Poor Countries tackle their burgeoning debt?
- A. Presbitero (ed) / Money and Finance Research group, 2009
- The current debt crisis in the Heavily Indebted and Poor Countries (HIPC) is hindering economic growth due to increasing bilateral loans and concessional lending, lack of macroeconomic adjustments and structural reforms in the HIPC. T...
- Conflict and state fragility: assessing the impact of the financial crisis on Africa
- S. Bakrania; B. Lucas / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2009
- It was thought that Sub-Saharan Africa would be largely unaffected by the financial crisis. However, as many Sub-Saharan African countries are dependent on foreign finance inflows and are even more dependent on commodity based ex...
- How does the economic crisis impact on child health, education, labour and family livelihoods?
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2009
- This document outlines the discussions and recommendations of the "Impact of the Economic Crisis on Children in East Asia and the Pacific Islands" conference, convened by UNICEF. The conference dealt with the crisis and its impacts on...
- How will the financial crisis affect fragile states in Africa?
- I. Othieno / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- This commentary brief considers the risks of the global financial crisis to fragile states, particularly in Africa. The author writes that it poses a serious threat to global peace and security and has the potential to creat...
- Protecting the poor and marginalised in Arab countries in light of the global economic crisis
- K. Mohamadieh; O. Pearce / Arab NGO Network for Development, 2009
- Countries in the Arab region are particularly vulnerable to the fallout of the global economic crisis as a result of already existing high levels of unemployment, dependency on food imports, widespread conflict and political insecurit...
- How to speed up Africa's recovery from the global financial crisis
- A. Fosu (ed); W. Naudé (ed) / United Nations University, 2009
- African economies have been shaken by the global economic downturn which followed the US-centered financial crisis of 2008. Africa’s growth rate for 2009 and 2010 has recently been revised substantially downwards by internationa...
- Financial crisis will impact trade, migration and remittance in Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2009
- Since the collapse of the United States sub prime mortgage market and the subsequent international global crisis, many developed and developing countries have been plunged into deep recession. Bangladesh, whose economy is less depende...
- Taking a multi pronged approach to tackling food insecurity in Arab countries
- J. Lampietti; N. Magnan; S. Michaels; et al. / World Bank Publications, 2009
- Arab countries are more exposed than other countries to severe swings in agricultural commodity prices due to the high level of food imports, especially cereals, and continued population growth and urbanisation. Countries need to act ...
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