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Banking on the poor? : branch placement and non-farm rural development in Bangladesh
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997In Bangladesh, Grameen Bank puts banks in areas where gains from switching from farming to nonfarm enterprises favor the poor. Other banks put more weight on potential gains to the nonpoor. Ravallion and Wodon assess whether the placement of bank branches in Bangladesh responds to unexploited potential for nonfarm rural development.DocumentPastoralists, paravets and privatisation: experiences in the Sanaag Region of Somaliland
Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1996The civil war in Somalia between 1988 and 1991 resulted in considerable loss of human life and destruction of local infrastructure and government services throughout the country. In August 1991 ACTIONAID, in collaboration with VETAID, visited Sanaag region in the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland.DocumentThe financing and technology decisions of SMEs: Finance as a determinant of investment
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1999Surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the financing of investment in order to lay the foundation for subsequent analysis of technology investments by Southern European SMEs. By adapting a variety of approaches to suit this purpose, a number of findings for policy are reached.DocumentUnderstanding Impact: Experiences and Lessons from the Small Enterprise Foundation’s Poverty-Alleviation Programme, Tšhomišano
Small Enterprise Foundation, 1999Paper produced for the Third Virtual Meeting of the CGAP Working Group on Impact Assessment Methodologies.Describes the implementation of microfinance programme and discusses the measurement of it's impact.DocumentPrivatisation and foreign direct investment in mainland Tanzania, 1992-98
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999Information is supplemented by a sketch of the non-privatisation based foreign direct investment (FDI) position over the same period. Privatisation revenue roughly accounted for a third to a half of all FDI.DocumentInformation, ICTs and Small Enterprise: Lessons from Botswana
Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999The potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development can only be assessed by first understanding current information practices and needs in such enterprises.DocumentPublic plant breeding in an era of privatisation
Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000In an era of increasing privatisation, this paper examines The possibilities and limitations associated with revenue generation through public plant breedingThe opportunities for moving the products of public plant breeding through the private sectorThe need for increased contacts with, and contributions from, private research.Paper concludes the following:Increasing thDocumentReviving the Indonesian banking sector? Indonesia's economic crisis: impact on financial and corporate sectors 1997 - 1999
East Asian Regional Network, Global Development Network, 2000This article explores possible, effective interventions open to Indonesian actors, which may facilitate the revival of Indonesia's flagging banking sector.DocumentReforming Vietnam's banking system: learning from Singapore's model
East Asian Regional Network, Global Development Network, 2000This study investigates the reforms that are crucial if the Vietnamese domestic banking system is to face up to new challenges and opportunities.