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    Bottleneck for growth: the human capital issue

    Grameen Foundation USA, 2008
    Lacking human resources threaten the growth of the development finance industry. Microfinance Focus notes the industry is notably lacking:
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    Economic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific 2008

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2008
    Examines the region’s key short and medium term prospects and challenges in macroeconomic and selected social areas and studies long-term development issues for the developing countries in the region.
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    Understanding unemployment in the Arab countries: towards a policy framework

    Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2008
    Unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is currently at a historical high, which may appear puzzling given economic growth in the region.
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    Cutting edge: how community forest enterprises lead the way on poverty reduction and avoided deforestation

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Forests are not just crucial for keeping the global environment stable; they are also a lifeline for hundreds of millions of the world's poor. This paper presents community forest enterprise as a possible solution, which combines both avoided deforestation (the concept of richer nations paying poorer ones to halt planned logging) and poverty reduction.
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    The Prosperity Initiative (PI)

    The Prosperity Initiative's goal is to unlock the potential of select industries, creating durable economic choice and a route out of poverty for millions of people. Key strategies:
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    Poverty reduction for profit? A critical examination of business opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid

    Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2007
    The author examines C.K Prahalad’s idea that selling to four billion poor people at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BoP) generates both profits for big business and eliminates poverty. A welcome, innovative and influential perspective, but an opportunity missed, he argues.
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    The Impact of Private Sector Growth on Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Indonesia

    SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2007
    This paper assesses the effect of public and private sector growth on poverty in Indonesia. The impact of growth in different types of economic expenditures on poverty reduction is estimated empirically using fixed capital formation growth as the proxy for the private sector and growth in government spending as the indicator of the public sector.
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    The business of global poverty

    Harvard Business School, 2007
    This document discusses work from members of Harvard’s business school global poverty project (GPP). It specifically details the GPP’s claim that business could play a crucial role in reducing poverty in the twenty first century. 
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    Mapping the trends and patterns of the metal and engineering sectors in Africa

    National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2006
    Africa’s metal industry faces a number of developmental challenges, including weak infrastructure, lack of adequate investments, skills shortage, political instability and an inequitable global market. This study explores the performance, trends and patterns of the metal and engineering sectors in Africa within their broader context.
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    Markets for ecosystem services: a potential tool for multilateral environmental agreements

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2006
    This paper discusses markets for ecosystem services (MES), which is an alternative approach for dealing with the way ecosystem services are used.

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