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National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)
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Fiduciary responsibility. Legal and practical aspects of integrating environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2009This report is about identifying future challenges within the financial system in order to reduce further crises like the Natural Resources Crisis. The authors integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment analysis in order to engage with companies to promote sustainable business practices.DocumentPrivate saving in India and Malaysia compared: the role of financial liberalization and expected pension benefits
Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2009This paper compares the evolution of private saving in India and Malaysia, and analyses how policy changes in the financial sectors and pension systems help explain differences in their saving performance. It assesses whether the ‘forced saving’ nature of the pension systems in India and Malaysia had any effect on voluntary saving by the private sector.DocumentEconomic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific 2008
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2008Examines 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.DocumentVietnam: increasing access to credit through collateral (secured transactions) reform
World Bank, 2007This report analyses Vietnam's secured transactions framework and the decade-long reform efforts within the context of global best practices. It is based mainly on the financial sector survey, a series of individual and focus group meetings in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city, analysis of the Vietnamese laws, and international best-practice reviews.DocumentPutting the cart before the horse?: privatisation and economic reform in Afghanistan
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006This report discusses the privatisation of Afghanistan’s state owned enterprises (SOEs).DocumentFinancial reform and the mobilisation of domestic savings: the experience of Morocco
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006Economic theory suggests that financial sector liberalisation increases savings and improves investment, thereby promoting economic development. But does this theory fit with the experience of liberalising economies?DocumentPrivatization: a summary assessment-Working Paper 87
Center for Global Development, USA, 2006This working paper assesses 15 years of privatisation in developing and post-communist countries, summarising what is and is not known about the process.DocumentPolicies for private sector development in Indonesia
Asian Development Bank Institute, 2006This discussion paper provides a historical overview of private sector development in Indonesia focusing on two elements of the private sector:the foreign investment sub-sector in view of its expected role in revitalising the Indonesian economythe SME sub-sector which, despite its great potential and importance for the Indonesian economy, has not developed as expected.The authoDocumentBack to the future for African infrastructure? Why state-ownership is no more promising the second time around
Center for Global Development, USA, 2006Many African state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly those in infrastructure sectors, have a long history of poor performance. Since the 1990s, there has been heavy reliance on private sector participation and ownership, but Africa’s private participation in infrastructure (PPI) initiatives have been comparatively few and weak.Pages