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Beyond microfinance: building inclusive rural financial markets in Central Asia
Asian Development Bank Institute, 2006This online book is based on a two-year research project with the aim of countering the perception that microfinance development alone could provide an answer to the problems of rural financial market development.DocumentMaking insurance work for the poor
Global Development Research Center, 2006This briefing paper is an output from a conference held in 2005 on microfinance and microinsurance, attended by several international stakeholders, including DFID, the ILO and CGAP.For the purpose of the conference, microinsurance was defined as: "the protection of low income people against specific perils in exchange for regular premium payments proportionate to the likelihood and cost of theDocumentPerpetuating poverty in sub-Saharan Africa: how African political elites undermine entrepreneurship and economic development
International Policy Network, 2005This paper argues that Africa's political elites have driven their countries' economies backwards, by misusing the economic surplus generated by the continent over the past 40 years.DocumentAssociations of small and medium forest enterprise: an initial review of issues for local livelihoods and sustainability
Forestry and Land Use Programme, IIED, 2004This 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.DocumentCaste discrimination and the private sector
India Committee of the Netherlands, 2005This 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.DocumentInformation and communication technologies (ICTs) and small enterprise: a handbook for entrepreneurs in developing countries
Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2001This handbook is for entrepreneurs running a small business in a developing country.DocumentInformation and communication technologies (ICTs) and small enterprise: a handbook for enterprise support agencies in developing countries
Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 2001This handbook is for staff in agencies that support the development of small enterprise in developing countries.DocumentDogmatic development: privatisation and conditionalities in six countries
War on Want, 2004The report examines how conditionalities and pressures from aid agencies and development banks force developing countries to adopt privatisation policies in public services.DocumentOverview of whistleblower protections at the Multilateral Development Banks
Government Accountability Project, 2004This paper offers an overview of the findings recommendations and next steps that came out of a series of reports assessing the whistleblower protection policies at four multilateral development banks (MDBs): the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).All four of the banks surveyed rDocumentSmall and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty: cross-country evidence
World Bank, 2004This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labour in the total manufacturing labour force.The authors use a sample of 76 countries to find:there is a strong association between the importance of SMEs and GDP per capita growththis relationship, hoPages