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Managing Change In Public Sector Organisation
November 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Public sector organisations are often perceived as resisting change. Many public sector organisations seek capacity (the ability to get things done) but not change (a different way of doing old...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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Outsourcing Markets In Services: International Business Trends, Patterns And Emerging Issues
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The global context and estimates of the market for outsourcing, within the framework of multinational enterprises foreign direct investment, are reviewed. The examination of geoeconomic spatiality...
Provided by United Nations Industrial Development Organization
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A Reflection On Business Ethics
July 10, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The overall purpose of this paper is to reflect on the importance and impact of linkages amongst business ethics as a growing academic discipline, the principle of social engagement as promoted by...
Provided by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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Mobile Commerce in Africa: An Overview With Specific Reference to South Africa, Kenya and Senegal
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The study on the role of mobile phones in trade and banking resulted from a six-country study on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Trade and Economic Growth commissioned by the...
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Component-Based Software Engineering - The Need to Link Methods and Their Theories
July 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses some of the difficulties and significant issues that authors need to consider when developing a formal method for component-based software engineering. Authors argue that to...
Provided by United Nations University
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Risk Management In Customs Procedures
November 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
A common characteristic of Customs work is the high volume of transactions and the impossibility of checking all of them. Customs administrations therefore face the challenge of facilitating the...
Provided by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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Extending Message-Oriented Middleware
April 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Different types of middleware exist to facilitate the integration of software running on heterogeneous computing platforms. Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), for instance, enables the interaction...
Provided by United Nations University
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Strategic Partnering With Chinese Companies: Hidden Motives And Treasures
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors aim to investigate the key drivers of international alliance formation from the perspective of Chinese companies. The results indicate that Chinese companies enter into...
Provided by United Nations University
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Developing Women's Entrepreneurship And e-Business In Green Cooperatives In The Asian And Pacific Region
January 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper aims to develop entrepreneurship among women and to enhance rural women's capacity to apply ICTs and to develop e-business in this niche area of agricultural cooperatives in developing...
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Human Resource Management And Learning Based On In-House R&D: The Pharmaceutical Industry In Mexico
January 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management practices on the likelihood that a firm performs in-house Research and Development (R&D). The latter is broadly interpreted as...
Provided by United Nations Industrial Development Organization
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Strengthening Civil Society's Accountability For Results: The Opportunity Of Comparative Constituency Feedback
December 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper will present some innovative new ways in which citizen organizations1 gather feedback from the constituents of their development interventions in order to build stronger relationships...
Provided by United Nations Public Administration Network
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Mondi Recycling Outsourcing the Supply Chain
December 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the developing world, recycling is essentially driven by economic necessity, with the associated environmental benefits being a useful and positive by-product. The main incentive for recycling...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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Mobility And Human Development
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper argues that mobility and migration have always been an intrinsic part of human development. Migration can be considered as a fundamental capabilities-enhancing freedom itself. However,...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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Human Development Impacts Of Migration: South Africa Case Study
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Controls on human mobility and efforts to undermine them continue to shape South Africa's politics, economy, and society. Despite the need for improved policy responses to human mobility, reform...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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The Russian Migration Policy And Its Impact On Human Development: The Historical Perspective
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For Russia, migration policy - in terms of internal or/and international migration flows management - was an ever-important element of the State activities. Concentrated on State interests, the...
Provided by United Nations Development Programme
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Managing Mobility For Human Development: The Growing Salience Of Mixed Migration
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the connections between mixed migration and human development, understood as the expansion of capabilities and choice (Sen 1999). It first clarifies some of the key concepts in...
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Improving The Measurement Of Human Development
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a new Human Development Index that involves a number of changes with respect to the present one, even though it keeps the basic structure of the index (namely, preserving...
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The Challenges Of Incorporating Empowerment Into The HDI: Some Lessons From Happiness Economics And Quality Of Life Research
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper reviews what the authors know about measuring quality of life, based on extensive work with happiness surveys in Latin America, and how that accumulated knowledge can inform the debate...
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Hope In Hard Times: Women's Empowerment And Human Development
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the conceptual and methodological issues related to women's empowerment, the trends in women's empowerment over the last 20 years in key areas such as education, health,...
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A Review of Conceptual And Measurement Innovations In National And Regional Human Development Reports, 1998-2009
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the results from an analysis of sub-national, national and regional human development reports nominated for the Human Development Awards between 1998 and 2009 to highlight...
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What Does Innovation In Emerging Economies Have To Offer Other Low Income Economies?
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Between 1970 and 2000 the proportion of global R&D occurring in low income economies rose from two percent to more than 20 percent. However, this rising commitment to R&D does not easily translate...
Provided by United Nations University
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Using Innovation Surveys For Econometric Analysis
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, the authors discuss the characteristics of the data they contain and the challenge they pose to the analyst and...
Provided by United Nations University
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CSR And Market Changing Product Innovations: Indian Case Studies
April 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Do firms need to sacrifice profit while innovating in order to further social objectives, as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) would seem to suggest? To answer this question, the paper...
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Entrepreneurship And The National System Of Innovation What Is Missing In Turkey?
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Although very dynamic and flexible, Turkish SMEs are less innovative than their European counterparts. The analysis undertaken in this paper allows assessing whether this low level of innovative...
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Impact Of Government Support On R&D And Innovation
May 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper evaluates whether public support from innovation from the central government or the European Union spurs innovation in Austrian firms. The effect is estimated separately on R&D...
Provided by United Nations University
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Entrepreneurship Development And The Role Of Economic Transition In Entrepreneurial Activities In China
July 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to elaborate on the entrepreneurship development in China and the role of China's economic transition in Chinese entrepreneurial activities. The authors address China's...
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Pro-Poor, Entrepreneur-Based Innovation And It's Role In Rural Development
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Innovation spurs economic growth and development. Pro-poor innovation in rural areas is more likely to occur through small-scale ventures and entrepreneurs than industrial research and...
Provided by United Nations University
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Financing Pro-Poor Entrepreneur-Based Innovation: A Review Of Existing Literature
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
That innovation and entrepreneurship are important for poverty alleviation and development is well established. However, despite a general agreement that finance affects growth and development by...
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India's Rural Financial System: Does It Support Pro-Poor Innovation?
July 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
From the perspective of poverty alleviation, socially relevant, or pro?]poor, rural innovation is of particular interest in a country like India since it is in rural areas that most of the poor...
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Assessing Innovations In International Research And Development Practice
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper integrates two distant bodies of literature - the literature on impact assessment of research and development interventions, and the literature on social psychology of assessing...
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Bridging The Financing Gap For Pro-Poor Innovation: Towards A Framework
September 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In many developing countries, pro-poor entrepreneurship and innovation is facing a financing gap. Such innovation suffers from a lack of finance especially from the mainstream (or core) of the...
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Innovation Strategy, Firm Survival And Relocation: The Case Of Hong Kong-Owned Manufacturing In Guangdon Province, China
October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Based on a survey adapted from the Fourth European Community Innovation Survey (CIS-4), this paper finds that, in the changing manufacturing environment of Guangdong province in China, Hong...
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Interrupted Innovation: Innovation System Dynamics In Latecomer Aerospace Industries
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors analyse the role of sectoral innovation systems in the emergence and catch-up of aerospace industries in latecomer economies. They argue that the aerospace sector is...
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Social Impacts Of The Development Of Science, Technology And Innovation Indicators
March 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators. The approach deals separately with the development process and with the use of the...
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Labour Market And Unemployment In Sudan
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of the analysis in this paper is that the authors explain several stylized facts on labour market using...
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On The Delivery Of Pro-Poor Innovations: Managerial Lessons From Sanitation Activists In India
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
There is an emerging body of literature that examines how pro-poor product innovations should be created and what business models should accompany them. However, there is little on actual...
Provided by United Nations University
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Economic Adversity And Entrepreneurship-Led Growth Lessons From The Indian Software Sector
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
It is commonly believed that the business environment in developing countries does not allow productive technology-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, the authors draw on the...
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Importance Of Technological Innovation For SME Growth Evidence From India
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper probes the drivers, dimensions, achievements, and outcomes of technological innovations carried out by SMEs in the auto components, electronics, and machine tool sectors of Bangalore in...
Provided by United Nations University
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Human Resource Management And Learning For Innovation: Pharmaceuticals In Mexico
January 8, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the influence of human resource management on learning from internal and external sources of knowledge. Learning for innovation is a key ingredient of catching-up...
Provided by United Nations University
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Endogenous Economic Growth Through Connectivity
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors show the benefits of regional connectivity and specialization to growth. Starting with one region they show how welfare measured by utility per head increases as the...
Provided by United Nations University
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UN News Reader [HD] 1.0 (iOS)
May 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The UN News Reader is a free mobile news application for quick and easy access to all stories from the UN News Centre. With a simple, user-friendly interface, you can read up-to-the-minute latest...
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United Nations Foundation 1.0.3 (Mobile)
December 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
Act Global, Go Mobile.People often ask How can I get involved? The UN Foundation mobile application allows citizens worldwide to learn more about areas where they want to add their voices,...
Provided by United Nations Foundation
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UN CountryStats 1.0 (Mobile)
February 29, 2012, 12:00am PST
UN CountryStats lets you create bar graphs to compare authoritative data from 216 countries and territories. The data is economic (e.g. GDP per capita), social (e.g. parliament seats held by...
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Pieces of Peace 1.0 (Mobile)
December 7, 2011, 12:00am PST
The app makes it easy to get involved and includes some innovative (and fun) ways to learn about the work of the United Nations. An interactive photo-scramble game, "Pieces of Peace," gives users...
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UN News Reader 1.1 (Mobile)
January 30, 2012, 12:00am PST
The UN News Reader is a free mobile news application for quick and easy access to all stories from the UN News Centre. With a simple, user-friendly interface, you can read up-to-the-minute latest...
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AIDSinfo 2.0 (Mobile)
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
AIDSinfo is a data visualization and dissemination tool to facilitate the use of AIDS-related data in countries and globally. AIDSinfo is populated with multisectoral HIV data from a range of...
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United Nations - Score the Goals [UN] 1.0 (Mobile)
January 11, 2012, 12:00am PST
'Score The Goals: Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals' is an educational comic featuring ten football/soccer UN Goodwill Ambassadors, who are challenged to tackle the eight...
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FAO Forestry 1.01 (Mobile)
January 4, 2012, 12:00am PST
Learn all about forests and forestry in this new app produced by the Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. See photos and read interesting facts and videos about forests. Take a...
Provided by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Computing Support for Problem Solving in Virtual Communities of Practice
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The paper presents a formal model for a knowledge repository shared by members of a Virtual Community of Practice (VCPs), describes how the repository can be used to underpin collaborative problem...
Provided by United Nations University
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UN Procurement 0.1 (Mobile)
October 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The United Nations Procurement Division is responsible for the establishment of contracts for the acquisition of a wide variety of goods, works and services for the UN Headquarters, peacekeeping...
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Negotiator 3.3 (Mobile)
November 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
This application is brought to you by the UN climate change secretariat (UNFCCC) to provide quick and easy access to essential information about the UN Climate Change Conferences taking place...
Provided by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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United Nations Declaration of Human Rights [UN] 1.1 (Mobile)
July 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This edition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains the complete text of the Declaration. It includes all thirty articles as envisaged by the creators...
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United Nations Declaration of Human Rights HD [UN] 1.1 (Mobile)
July 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This edition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains the complete text of the Declaration. It includes all thirty articles as envisaged by the creators...
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Making Fiscal Space Happen! Managing Fiscal Policy In A World Of Scaled-up Aid
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Debt relief and the scaling up of aid to low-income countries should allow for greater fiscal space for expenditure programmes to create long-term growth and lower poverty rates. But designing a...
Provided by United Nations University
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Excess Liquidity, Oligopolistic Loan Markets And Monetary Policy In LDCs
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Evidence about commercial banks' liquidity preference says the following about the loan market in LDCs: the loan interest rate is a minimum mark-up rate; the loan market is characterized by...
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UN Innovations in Public Governance 1.1 (Mobile)
June 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
UN Innovations in Public Governance provides an overview of successful innovations in governance and public administration from countries that have received the United Nations Public Service...
Provided by United Nations
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Globalization And Development In Sub-Saharan Africa
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper critically reviews the impact of globalization on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the early 1980s. The large gains expected from opening up to international economic forces have, to...
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Excess Credit And The South Korean Crisis
August 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide a novel empirical analysis of the South Korean credit market that reveals large volumes of excess credit since the late 1970s, indicating that a sizeable proportion of total...
Provided by United Nations University
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The Financial Crisis Of 2008 And The Developing Countries
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Following the financial crisis that broke in the US and other Western economies in late 2008, there is now serious concern about its impact on the developing countries. The world media almost...
Provided by United Nations University
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Linkages, Access To Finance And The Performance Of Small-Scale Enterprises In Kenya
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Micro- and Small-scale Enterprises (MSEs) have become important players in the Kenyan economy, but at the same time they continue to face constraints that limit their development. Lack of access...
Provided by United Nations University
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Into The Void: Governing Finance In Central And Eastern Europe
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Twenty years after the fall of the iron curtain - which for decades had separated East from West - most countries of Central and Eastern Europe are now members of the European Union; some have...
Provided by United Nations University
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Gearing Macroeconomic Policies To Manage Large Inflows Of ODA
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines how macroeconomic policies can be managed to accommodate a large inflow of foreign aid to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic and still maintain macroeconomic stability. Because of...
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Aid Effectiveness, Debt Relief And Public Finance Response
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Substantial amounts of debt relief have been granted to a set of low-income countries, as an alternative aid modality. Although the theoretical case for debt relief is firmly established, only...
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How Does Colonial Origin Matter For Economic Performance In Sub- Saharan Africa?
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates some of the existing hypotheses regarding the transmission of different colonial legacies to modern day economic growth. The fact that different colonial strategies were...
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Financial Reform And The Mobilization Of Domestic Savings
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Using a vector error-correction model, the author explores the short-run dynamics and long-run linkages between financial reform and the mobilization of domestic saving in Morocco. In the short...
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Remittances And Financial Inclusion In Development
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors focus on the relationship between remittance inflows and financial inclusion in developing countries. They present single equation estimates on remittances and financial...
Provided by United Nations University
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The Global Crisis: A Wake-up Call For Trade Finance Capacity-Building In Emerging Asia
January 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
The global economic crisis has attracted renewed attention to the issue of trade finance as exporters in some countries, particularly SMEs, struggle to secure much-needed short-term financing and...
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Infrastructure Finance In Developing Countries? The Potential Of Sub-sovereign Bonds
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper sets out to explore the potential of sub-sovereign bonds in financing infrastructure in developing countries. Taking into account the historical experience of the US, it develops a...
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Political Economy Of Additional Development Finance
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The paper considers the political obstacles and supports for additional development finance and a number of possible devices through which advantage may be taken of the supports and the obstacles...
Provided by United Nations University
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Can Microfinance Reduce Economic Insecurity And Poverty? By How Much And How?
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper suggests that, rather than through its narrow, direct financial impact, microfinance may prove to be more potent in reducing insecurity and poverty through its indirect, broader impact...
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Mananging Financial Instability: Why Prudence Is Not Enough?
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper argues that developing countries have limited arsenal at the national level to manage financial instability. The solutions have to be sought mainly at the multilateral level and these...
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The Terrible Simplifers: Common Origins Of Financial Crises And Persistent Poverty In Economic Theory And The New '1848 Moment'
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
One element explaining the financial crisis is what Hyman Minsky called 'Destabilizing stability': long periods of stability lead to increasing vulnerability. This paper argues that similar...
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Sensitivity Of Loan Size To Lending Rates: Evidence From Ghana's Microfinance Sector
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the combined effect of interest rates and poverty levels of microfinance clients on loan size. Cross section data on 2,691 clients and non-clients households from Ghana is used...
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Globalization, Economic Crisis And National Strategies For Higher Education Development
December 17, 2009, 12:00am PST
Higher education has undergone tremendous expansion in the recent past. The growing employment opportunities and the increased skills needed to compete in the global labour market are important...
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Environmental Policy And International Competitiveness In A Globalizing World: Challenges For Low-Income Countries In The UNECE Region
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A major policy goal of low-income countries is to promote the creation of competitive economic capacities in order to achieve sustained growth and raise the material well being of the population....
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Coping With Globalized Finance: Recent Challenges And Long-Term Perspectives
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Globalization, the modern process of integration of world markets, has delivered uneven outcomes both across and inside economies. It has been a source of convergence for some and of divergence...
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Global And Regional Approaches To Trade And Finance
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
A coherent treatment of the interdependence between trade, macroeconomic and financial issues was an important element in the debate leading to the post-War international economic system. The...
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The Global Economic Crisis: Systemic Failures And Multilateral Remedies
March 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The global deleveraging that first hit the world economy in mid-2007 and that accelerated in autumn 2008 could not have been possible without the rare coincidence of a number of market failures...
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Regional Monetary Cooperation And Growth-Enhancing Policies: The New Challenges For Latin America And The Caribbean
May 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Evidence suggests that a suitable development strategy for Latin America presupposes growth-oriented macroeconomic policies. In this regard, monetary policy is central to an integrated development...
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Regional Arrangements To Support Growth And Macro-Policy Coordination In MERCOSUR
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The main goal of the paper is to discuss the problem of macroeconomic policy coordination in MERCOSUR and how it could contribute to sustaining growth. In the first part, the paper reviews the...
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