This focus note begins by briefly telling the story of recent growth in the four countries leading into the credit delinquency crises. The second section describes the key contextual factors that affe...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56627Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2010Autor:
Chen, Gregory C. ;
Rasmussen, Stephen F. ;
Reille, Xavier
This focus note describes current practices and assesses options for design and implementation of basic consumer protection rules, focusing on low-access environments. It includes the following: 1) a ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56626Fecha: 1 de febrero de 2010Autor:
Newbury, Laura Brix ;
Mckee, Katharine
Ever since microcredit first began to capture public attention 25 years ago, the usual story line has been that it is a tool of extraordinary power to lift poor people-especially women-out of poverty,...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56625Fecha: 1 de enero de 2010Autor:
Rosenberg, Richard
People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from microfinance. Their income is usually too low and unreliable to permit repayment of loans or investment...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56723Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2009Autor:
El-Zoghbi, Mayada ;
De Montesquiou Fezensac, Aude ;
Hashemi, Syed Mesbahuddin
Morocco is a recognized microcredit champion, boasting 40 percent of client outreach in the Arab world and host to some of the best performing microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the world. But since ...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 56725Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2009Autor:
Reille, Xavier
The Panama Pacifico Project is transforming the former Howard United States (U.S.) Air Force base outside Panama City into a hub for international trade, logistics, services, commerce, and industry. A...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53173Fecha: 1 de diciembre de 2009
A joint venture between the government of Samoa and Australia's Virgin Blue, a low-cost carrier, turned an annual United States (U.S.) 7.5 million dollars government subsidy into a U.S. 6.6 million do...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 53174Fecha: 1 de noviembre de 2009
In July 2009, the Cities Alliance launched a four-issue CIVIS series on climate change prepared by the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Th...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 73796Fecha: 1 de octubre de 2009
This Results Profile talks about expanding access to quality education in Afghanistan. Thirty years of conflict and political unrest destroyed the Afghan education system. Recognizing that education w...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94613Fecha: 29 de septiembre de 2009
This Results Profile talks about better communication for better future in Afghanistan. Emerging from three decades of conflict and instability in 2002, Afghanistan barely had a functioning communicat...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 94615Fecha: 29 de septiembre de 2009
Bangladesh is a poor, densely populated country of about 162 million people. A longstanding impediment to economic growth and poverty reduction has been an inadequate and unreliable power supply. To a...
Tipo: BriefInforme#: 92906Fecha: 28 de septiembre de 2009
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