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IMF ecourages monetary policy that is detrimental so sub-Saharan Africa

Emphasis and encouragement of monetary policy in sub-Saharan Africa is often misplaced. It tends to leave inflation and real exchange rates unchanged whilst having an adverse impact on public debt servicing.

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Estrategia de microfinanzas para el manejo sostenible de la tierra y la adaptación al cambio climático en el Ecuador: Global Mechanism, 2011; El objetivo de esta estrategia es promover, con el apoyo financiero del sector de las microfinanzas, actividades que contribuyan a combatir la degradación de la tierra, la desertificación y promueva...
Global Pension Systems and Their Reform Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges: R. Holzmann / Social Protection and Labour, World Bank, 2012; Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide finan...
The Impact of 1998 and 2008 Financial Crises on Profitability of Islamic Banks: N.H.B. Ahmad / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies , 2011; The paper investigates the profitability of 78 Islamic banks in 25 countries for the period of 1992-2009. The Fixed Effect Model (FEM) used to analyse profitability shows that profit efficiency is pos...
Asset Price Bubble and Banks:The Case of Japan: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies , 2011; This paper analyses the behaviour of the Japanese banks at the outset of the asset price bubble in the late 1980s. The paper argues that with the advent of financial deregulations, the declining trend...
Money-Income Causality in Bangladesh: An Error Correction Approach: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies , 2011; The objective of this paper is to look on the causality between money and income in Bangladesh. The paper differs from the earlier ones regarding data used and econometric techniques applied. The main...
Initial Trade Policy Focus of the High Performing Asian Economies: A Critical Assessment: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies , 2011; It is generally agreed that national trade policies of Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong played an important role behind the success of the High Performing Asian Economies (HPAEs). These co...
An Analysis of the National Budget for FY2011-12: Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2011; Paper prepared under the CPD programme Independent Review of Bangladesh's Development (IRBD) Released to the media on 10 June 2011...
Seasonal and extreme poverty in Bangladesh : evaluating an ultra-poor microfinance project: 2010; Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike regula...
India & Bangladesh: bilateral trade- potential free trade agreement: 2006; India and Bangladesh have long shared common objectives for closer economic integration within the South Asia region and trade between the two countries has grown rapidly since the early 1990s. A free...
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