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Broadening the Agenda for Poverty Reduction: Opportunity, Empowerment, Security Experience from the 1990s has led to a poverty reduction agenda that, in addition to promoting economic growth, addresses ingrained inequalities, institutional failures, social barriers, and other risks.   |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Bio-Tchane & Yehoue |
Africa's Missing Ingredients How international economic aid can be better directed to entrench development in sub-Saharan Africa. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2007
Boughton & Bradford |
Global Governance: New Players, New Rules The financial turbulence of 2007 illustrates -- not for the first time -- both the benefits and the risks of financial globalization. Here's why the 20th-century model needs a makeover. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2007
Ronald Bailey |
Our Intangible Riches World Bank environmental economist Kirk Hamilton on the planet's real wealth. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
Joel Hellman & Daniel Kaufmann |
Confronting the Challenge of State Capture in Transition Economies In transition economies, corruption has taken on a new image -- that of so-called oligarchs manipulating policy formation and even shaping the emerging rules of the game to their own, very substantial advantage. We refer to this behavior as state capture... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Christensen et al. |
Bankable Assets Africa faces many obstacles in developing financial systems. New markets and institutions need to be able to flourish. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, & Pablo Zoido-Lobaton |
Governance Matters: From Measurement to Action Policymakers generally rely on anecdotal evidence to assess the quality of governance, but this information is often misleading and incomplete.... |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Kodres & Narain |
What Is to Be Done While there is enough blame to pass around, one key contributor to the global financial crisis was inadequate regulation. The scope of financial regulation needs to be revamped and the provision of liquidity improved. Here's how. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Saavedra & Arias |
Stuck in a Rut Avenues for combating persistent poverty and inequality in Latin America. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Caroline M. Robb |
How the Poor Can Have a Voice in Government Policy Development thinking has changed significantly in recent years. Policymakers have recognized the ability of the poor to make a valuable contribution to the analysis of poverty and are consulting them directly. This new participatory approach has resulted in a broader definition of poverty and better-informed public policies that are more responsive to the needs of the poor. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Noel Sacasa |
Preventing Future Crises The financial crisis has exposed weaknesses in the current regulatory and supervisory frameworks and made it clear that we are in need of regulatory reform. |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Masood Ahmed |
The Next Frontier Low-income countries gain ground in a globalized world, but they still face major challenges. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Dani Rodrik |
Growth Versus Poverty Reduction: A Hollow Debate |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Seyni N'Diaye |
The Role of Institutional Reforms ...It is precisely from this restrictive regulatory framework that African countries must extricate themselves if they are to realize their true potential in the global economy... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Neil Gregory & Stoyan Tenev |
The Financing of Private Enterprise in China A 1999 survey of more than 600 private Chinese enterprises revealed that they relied primarily on self-financing. For China's private sector to thrive, firms will need increased access to external loan and equity financing... |
D-Lib
June 2009
Evens & Hauttekeete |
Unlocking Audio: Towards an Online Repository of Spoken Word Collections in Flanders Currently, Flanders lags behind other European regions when it comes to using innovative tools to facilitate access to its oral history collections. |
Reason
December 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Post-Scarcity Prophet Economist Paul Romer on growth, technological change, and an unlimited human future... |
D-Lib
December 2007
Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Guy Pfeffermann |
Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: The Role of Private Enterprise The role of private enterprise in development has been neglected by scholars, governments, and aid organizations. This is regrettable: a vibrant private sector generates jobs, raises incomes, and makes better, cheaper goods and services available... |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 21, 2010
Martha Lagace |
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets The ambition level of large, fast-growing emerging markets around the world rivals that of companies in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here's how to identify and respond to institutional voids in product, labor, and capital markets. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Masood Ahmed & Hugh Bredenkamp |
Supporting Poverty Reduction in Low-Income Developing Countries: The International Community's Response Despite developing countries' improved economic growth rates during the 1990s, poverty has remained firmly entrenched. How can developing countries, international financial institutions, and developed countries work together more effectively to reduce the incidence of poverty? |
Finance & Development
September 2008 |
Dialogue Box F&D asked a number of opinion leaders around the world to answer the question, What's the single thing most likely to double living standards in poor countries over the next decade? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Singh & Collyns |
Latin America's Resurgence Latin America's recent resurgence amid continuing favorable external conditions provides another historic opportunity for the region to catalyze its considerable natural and human capital resources into sustained and higher growth. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Robert H. Bates |
Beyond the Ballot Box Political reform and policy reform in contemporary Africa. |
InternetNews
March 31, 2010 |
How the Net Will Overcome Lingering Obstacles Most but, by no means all, respondents to a recent survey peering into the digital landscape in 2020 look for marked change in the form of more openness and efficiency from businesses and government. |
Bank Systems & Technology
October 1, 2007
Lisa Valentine |
Marian Lucia Manages Change at The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Meeting the needs of its financial institution clients while also meeting the organization's mission to promote affordable housing means FHLBank Atlanta's technology must support unusually large and complex transactions. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Berg & Krueger |
Lifting All Boats: Why Openness Helps Curb Poverty It is important to assess the quality of the evidence regarding the links between openness, growth, and poverty reduction. This article provides a critical survey of recent studies. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz |
Finding New Data The global crisis revealed vast gaps in international financial statistics that authorities are working to fill. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2009
Nick Kapur |
The Ultimate Strategy for the Individual Investor Stock investors can take advantage of the big institutions by recognizing their weaknesses. |
Finance & Development
December 2010
Quintyn & Verdier |
Trusting the Government Confidence in government is the key to financial development. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 25, 2011
Christensen & Eyring |
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University Online learning is a disruptive technology that is making colleges and universities reconsider their higher education models. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2013
Jett et al. |
A Model for Providing Web 2.0 Services to Cultural Heritage Institutions: The IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study The Flickr Feasibility Study was launched in 2009 to determine how aggregators might provide intermediary services for cultural heritage institutions wishing to engage in Web 2.0 initiatives, shed light on both needs and models for aggregation services. |
Bank Systems & Technology
February 1, 2007
Jamie Geschke |
A Delicate Balance Innovation and differentiation will be required for U.S. financial institutions to compete with new entrants, non-traditional providers and global competitors. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Deepa Narayan |
Poverty Is Powerlessness and Voicelessness The Voices of the Poor study aimed to understand poverty from the perspective of poor people and to illuminate the human experience behind the poverty statistics. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Gerd Hausler |
The Globalization of Finance Financial globalization has brought considerable benefits to national economies and to investors and savers, but it has also changed the structure of markets, creating new risks and challenges for market participants and policymakers... |
Finance & Development
December 2006 |
Book Reviews Globalization and Its Enemies by Daniel Cohen... Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development by Hilton Root... etc. |
The Motley Fool
November 27, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Insiders and Institutions Why investors should pay attention to what percentage of a company's shares are owned by insiders or institutions. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Amar Bhattacharya |
A Tangled Web Everyone agrees on reforming the governance of financial markets, but who will do what remains unclear. |
Wall Street & Technology
April 14, 2008
Cory Levine |
Gartner Offers Financial Institutions Tips to Broaden Client Relationships By helping customers better manage their finances with access to external data, financial institutions can broaden their customer relationships and meet some of their own short-term cost and revenue challenges. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Andrew Crockett |
Rebuilding the Financial Architecture What needs to be done to strengthen financial regulation and supervision? |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2013
Burns et al. |
Institutional Repositories: Exploration of Costs and Value Little is known about the costs academic libraries incur to implement and manage institutional repositories and the value these institutional repositories offer to their communities. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Mahmood Hasan Khan |
Rural Poverty in Developing Countries How does rural poverty develop, what accounts for its persistence, and what specific measures can be taken to eliminate or mitigate it? |
Bank Technology News
May 2007 |
The Six Regulatory Areas That Are Altering Bank Life Regulation is a part of bank life. Failure to comply shouldn't be. |
Bank Technology News
May 2010
Rebecca Sausner |
Are Community Banks "Too Small to Fail?" Open Solutions CEO Louis Hernandez Jr.'s recently released book "Too Small to Fail" offers his take on the financial crisis and the role of community banks in the American economy. |
U.S. Banker
January 2008
Figgat et al. |
Making Contact Centers Profitable Forty percent of contact centers today are revenue drivers -- up from zero just ten years ago. What are these institutions doing differently from those that seem stuck in the cost-center model? And what can the latter do to improve? |
Bank Technology News
August 2009
John Adams |
The Age of Enterprise Risk Management Deloitte's sixth annual Global Risk Survey demonstrates the expanding role of the chief risk officer, but it also reveals there's still lots of room for growth when it comes to enterprise-wide risk assessment programs. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Robert Klitgaard |
Subverting Corruption The focus of countries' anticorruption efforts typically begins with consciousness raising, shifts to making governments less susceptible, and then addresses the problem of corrupt systems. When this third stage is reached, what measures can governments, concerned citizens, and others take to subvert entrenched corruption? |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Mary Wu |
The Future of Institutional Repositories at Small Academic Institutions: Analysis and Insights While all institutional repositories have experienced the same obstacles relating to a lack of faculty participation, those at small universities face unique challenges. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Kang & Miniane |
Global Financial Turmoil Tests Asia As the global financial crisis spreads, how will Asia weather the storm? |
D-Lib
December 2007
Estlund & Neatrour |
Utah Digital Repository Initiative: Building a Support System for Institutional Repositories As the deployment of IRs becomes mature, more libraries will take advantage of consortial or regional ties to provide support, training, and expertise in IR development. This support structure is essential for organizations that otherwise would not have the infrastructure to create an IR. |
