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article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC8934&resource=f1&n=1","Innovations in financial services: lessons from Bangladesh for East African MFIs","Microsave-Africa",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC8932&resource=f1&n=1","The impact of access to credit on the saving behavior of microentrepeneurs: evidence from 3 Latin American countries","Inter-American Development Bank (IDB / IADB)",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC8931&resource=f1&n=1","Political incentives that constrain poverty alleviation policy","MacArthur Network, Princeton University",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC8930&resource=f1&n=1","The Grameen Bank: a financial reckoning","MacArthur Network, Princeton University",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC8929&resource=f1&n=1","Does microfinance really help the poor?: new evidence from flagship programs in Bangladesh","MacArthur Network, Princeton University",""); 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article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7458&resource=f1&n=1","Understanding Impact: Experiences and Lessons from the Small Enterprise Foundation’s Poverty-Alleviation Programme, Tšhomišano","Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF)",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7411&resource=f1&n=1","Microfinance in the Wake of Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities","Micro Enterprise Innovation Project (MIP), USAID",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7409&resource=f1&n=1","The use of control groups in impact assessments for microfinance","Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department / Social Finance Unit, ILO",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7407&resource=f1&n=1","Migrant Worker Remittances, Micro-finance and the Informal Economy: Prospects and Issues","Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department / Social Finance Unit, ILO",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7339&resource=f1&n=1","Measuring Microcredit Delinquency: Ratios can be Harmful to Your Health","Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP)",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7318&resource=f1&n=1","Rural savings and investments [efects of canal irrigation in India]","Department of Agriculture and Co-operation, India",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7299&resource=f1&n=1","Green revolution technology takes root in Africa: the promise and challenge of the Ministry of Agriculture/SG2000 experiment with improved cereals technology in Ethiopia","Food Security II Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7163&resource=f1&n=1","Impact Assessment of the PULSE microfinance programme in Lusaka, Zambia","Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Swansea",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7162&resource=f1&n=1","Hey and Orme go to Gara Godo: Household Risk Preferences [in Ethiopia]","Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), Nottingham",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7138&resource=f1&n=1","Gender, informality and poverty: a global review of gender bias in female informal employment and incomes in developing countries","Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7084&resource=f1&n=1","Grameen Dialogue","Grameen Bank",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7078&resource=f1&n=1","Ganyu Labour in Malawi and its implications for Livelihood Security Interventions: An analysis of recent literature and implications for poverty alleviation","Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7062&resource=f1&n=1","Impact of Access to Credit on the Poor: Research Design and Baseline Survey for a Longitudinal Study","Banking with the Poor Network",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7061&resource=f1&n=1","The Performance and Sustainability of Two Philippine Microfinance Institutions","Banking with the Poor Network",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC7026&resource=f1&n=1","Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India","Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6989&resource=f1&n=1"," Impact Assessment Methodologies for Microfinance: Theory, Experience and Better Practice","Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), Manchester",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6987&resource=f1&n=1","Better understanding of financial services for the poor can lead to better service provision","Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), Manchester",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6986&resource=f1&n=1","Micro-macro linkages in financial markets: the impact of financial liberalisation on access to rural credit in four African countries","Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), Manchester",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6956&resource=f1&n=1","China's Unfinished Open-Economy Reforms: Liberalisation of Services","OECD Development Centre",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6907&resource=f1&n=1","Peasant Cotton Cultivation and Marketing Behaviour in Tanzania since Liberalisation","Centre for Development Research (CDR), Copenhagen",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6884&resource=f1&n=1"," A Framework for Regulating Microfinance Institutions","Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6865&resource=f1&n=1","Rural Livelihood Diversity in Developing Countries: Evidence and Policy Implications","Overseas Development Institute (ODI)",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6864&resource=f1&n=1","Listening to farmers: Participatory assessment of policy reform in Zambia’s agriculture sector","Africa Region Findings, World Bank",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6804&resource=f1&n=1","Rehabilitation of Rural Finance Institutions: Lessons from Benin and the African Experience","Africa Region Findings, World Bank",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6803&resource=f1&n=1","Financial Services for the Urban Poor: Standard Bank of South Africa’s E-Plan","Africa Region Findings, World Bank",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6802&resource=f1&n=1","Zambia’s Credit Management Services: micro-credit schemes for women entrepreneurs","Africa Region Findings, World Bank",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6765&resource=f1&n=1","The Poor and their Money: what have we learned?","Overseas Development Institute (ODI)",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6692&resource=f1&n=1","Effects of Agricultural Commercialization on Food Crop Input Use and Productivity in Kenya","Food Security II Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6616&resource=f1&n=1","Population and environmental change: from linkages to policy issues","Sustainable Development Department, FAO / SD Dimensions",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6590&resource=f1&n=1","Rural finance and poverty alleviation","International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC6491&resource=f1&n=1","South Africa: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture","Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC4693&resource=f1&n=1","Stimulating indigenous agribusiness development in the northern communal areas of Namibia : a concept paper"," Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC), USAID",""); article[mycounter++] = new newsitem("http://www.eldis.org/ds/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC4692&resource=f1&n=1","Stimulating indigenous agribusiness development in Zimbabwe : a concept paper"," Productive Sector Growth and Environment (PSGE) in Africa, USAID","");