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  Banks in microfinance: guidelines for successful partnership

  US Agency for International Development, 2005

  This MicroNote is written primarily for USAID staff and others who may consider approaching banks to develop microfinance programmes.
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  Privatisation of conflict, security and war

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 2005

  The paper assesses the general trend towards privatisation, in the developed as well as the developing world, where even high politics is increasingly performed by, or outsourced to, non-state actors.
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  Associations of small and medium forest enterprise: an initial review of issues for local livelihoods and sustainability

  Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2004

  This paper provides an introduction to recent literature on the benefits of small and medium enterprise (SME) associations and how to achieve them. An introduction is given to some of the language used by different disciplines that may have something to offer the forest sector.
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  Caste discrimination and the private sector

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2005

  This report outlines the main arguments and issues raised in the seminar entitled ‘Employment Principles for Foreign Investors in South Asia’ held in 2004 in London. The seminar raised a number of important issues in relation to caste discrimination and foreign investment in South Asia.
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  Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and small enterprise: a handbook for entrepreneurs in developing countries

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2001

  This handbook is for entrepreneurs running a small business in a developing country.
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  Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and small enterprise: a handbook for enterprise support agencies in developing countries

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2001

  This handbook is for staff in agencies that support the development of small enterprise in developing countries.
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  Modeling private sector development in the People’s Republic of China

  ADB Institute, 2005

  In this paper, a simplified mathematical model based on the behavioral pattern of firms in the PRC is used to discuss the impact of privatisation on private sector development in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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  What is special about enterprise performance in North-East People’s Republic of China? Dynamics of privatization, profitability and productivity during the Reform Era

  ADB Institute, 2005

  Using the annual survey on large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in People’s Republic of China (PRC) by the National Bureau of Statistics, this paper examines enterprise performance in north-east PRC, in the light of growing regional disparities in income and wealth in the PRC.The north-east region has a high concentration of state-owned enterprises and was the PRC's old, heavy industry
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  Review of telecenter sustainability criteria for the establishment of sustainable rural business resource centers for SMEs in developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2004

  This paper addresses the sustainability issue of telecenters.
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  Strengthening the role of the private sector and entrepreneurship in financing for development

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2005

  This report outlines some of the key issues pertaining to the role of the private sector and entrepreneurship in financing for development. The report examines issues relating to the creation of an enabling environment for business and to the strengthening of entrepreneurship and private sector actions to facilitate development.

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