Microfinance has been a long-lived development fashion. It has been around since the 1980s, and in 2005 it enjoyed the accolade of a UN international year. The reasons for this success are obvious. It reaches millions of poor people, particularly women, and it can be profitab…
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Multilateral Development Banks: Governance and Finance is a novel, theory-inspired, and practice-based guide to the essence and prospects of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). It provides a comprehensive overview regarding virtually all MDBs, involved in lending for internat…
"This book provides much needed insights and knowledge about the growing world of multilateral development banks. By including twenty-five global, regional, and sub-regional banks, it systematically presents main features, challenges, and potentials of these important developmen…
This research was made possible with the encouragement, support and assistance of several people. Iam thankful to Art Stoecker, Hong Lee, Su j it Roy, Robert Rouse, and David Upton for their valuable commentsand suggestions, while I worked on my dissertationat Texas Tech Univers…
The changing landscape of foreign aid has both stimulated and acknowledged the re-emergence of Southern countries as donors and providers of aid and knowledge in global development cooperation. This research explored how Indonesia, as a Southern state, has constructed the idea o…
"This edited book provides a contemporary, critical and thought-provoking analysis of the internal and external threats to Western multilateral development finance in the twenty-first century. It draws on the expertise of scholars with a range of backgrounds providing a critical…
"This edited book provides a contemporary, critical and thought-provoking analysis of the internal and external threats to Western multilateral development finance in the twenty-first century. It draws on the expertise of scholars with a range of backgrounds providing a critical…
"A workshop hosted by the World Bank and the IMF in September 2001 provided a forum for those organizations to review the effectiveness of Bank-Fund advice and programs on civil service reform - and to propose ways to improve joint effects in coming years. Workshop participants …
