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  The global economic impacts of trade and financial reform in China

  Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australia, 1998

  Despite the setbacks from the recent Asian currency crisis, the ascendancy of Asia as an economic centre of world economic activity is likely to continue into the 21st century. A key issue that will shape the role of Asia, and indeed the shape of the world economy in the 21st century, is the economic development of China.
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  Impact Assessment of the PULSE microfinance programme in Lusaka, Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 1998

  PULSE is a group-based microfinance programme that provides savings and loan facilities to people living in low income compounds of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. As one of the pioneers of microfinance in Zambia, high quality assessment of the impact of PULSE is particularly important.
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  International Capital Markets 1999: Developments, Prospects, and Key Policy Issues

  International Capital Markets, IMF, 1999

  Reviews year's developments, and addresses a number of specific features of international capital market dynamics, including the systemic and other issues posed by highly leveraged institutions and activitiesthe nonstandard policy responses some emerging markets have taken when faced with extreme external pressuresthe performance of the major credit rating agencies during the recen
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  Trends in Venture Capital Finance in Developing Countries

  International Finance Corporation, 1998

  Presents an analysis of new data on venture capital in developing countries gathered from two main sources: i) regional venture capital associations in Asia and Europe, and ii) a survey administered by IFC on the portfolio structure of some 410 investments made by 53 venture capital funds in 19 developing countries.The data from the regional venture capital associations details sources and use
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  Trends in Private Investments in Developing Countries and Perceived Obstacles to Doing Business: Statistics for 1970-1997

  International Finance Corporation, 1998

  The first part of the discussion paper documents trends in private and public fixed investment. On average for the 47 countries covered (including, for the first time in this series, China), 1997 was a record year for private investment, which rose from a low of 11.2 percent of GDP in 1985 to 14.3 percent in 1997, the last year for which data exist.
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  Microfinance in the Wake of Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities

  microLINKS,, 1998

  Overview of the rapidly evolving practice of microfinance and microenterprise development in post-conflict situationsDocuments the surprisingly few preconditions these programs consider essential to initiate a microenterprise development program.
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  The use of control groups in impact assessments for microfinance

  Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1998

  Looks into the barriers which are encountered in the use of impact assessments to evaluate microfinance programs, more specifically the difficulties encountered in the control group, a method employed to compare a population that had benefitted from a microcredit scheme to another group which had not.
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  Migrant Worker Remittances, Micro-finance and the Informal Economy: Prospects and Issues

  Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1999

  The conventional approach to analysing the impact of remittances on the domestic economies of labour-sending countries focuses exclusively on officially recorded flows and their effects on the various economic aggregates in the formal economy.
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  Country Risks and the Investment Activities of U.S. Multinationals in Developing Countries

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1999

  Examines the uneven distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) over developing countries.
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  Assessing the efficiency and outreach of micro-finance schemes

  Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996

  Focuses on the ability of credit unions to efficiently handle loans to microenterprises, by sighting both their strengths and weaknesses. The discussion begins with a historical background on credit unions and microenterprises, followed by an analysis of major issues that might be considered before channelling funds through credit unions to small businesses.

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