• Microfinance and climate change : threats and opportunities
    Changes to the world's climate that were once imperceptibly slow are now clearly visible and happening quickly. Dying coral reefs, the disappearing arctic ice sheet, and proliferating invasive insects...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 49144 التاريخ : March 1, 2009 المؤلف: Rippey, Paul
  • The global financial crisis and its impact on microfinance
    Compared with other financial institutions, microfinance institutions (MFIs) have emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crises of the past few decades. During the currency crises in East Asi...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 47954 التاريخ : February 1, 2009 المؤلف: Littlefield, Elizabeth L. ; Kneiding, Christoph
  • Shedding light on microfinance equity valuation : past and present
    Micro-finance institutions (MFIs) will certainly be affected by the financial crisis ricocheting across the globe, but the authors believe that the sector is fundamentally sound. Larger institutions, ...
    النوع : Working Paper (Numbered Series) تقرير #: 47956 التاريخ : February 1, 2009 المؤلف: O'Donohoe, Nicholas P. ; Frederic, Rozeira de Mar
  • The new moneylenders : are the poor being exploited by high microcredit interest rates?
    Over the past two decades, institutions that make micro loans to low-income borrowers in developing and transition economies have focused increasingly on making their lending operations financially su...
    النوع : Working Paper (Numbered Series) تقرير #: 47957 التاريخ : February 1, 2009 المؤلف: Rosenberg, Richard ; Gonzalez, Adrian Francisco ; Narain, Sushma
  • West Bank and Gaza - Municipal finance and service provision (Vol. 1 of 2)
    The main general objective of this study is to promote a deeper understanding of municipal finance in the West Bank and Gaza, including identification of the key issues that local governments currentl...
    النوع : Other Financial Sector Study تقرير #: 52437 التاريخ : January 28, 2009
  • Remarks at the Arab economic summit by Robert B. Zoellick, President, The World Bank Group
    These remarks were delivered by Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, in Kuwait at the Arab Economic Summit on January 19, 2009. He discusses about sharing the vision of employing trade to ...
    النوع : President's Speech تقرير #: 124555 التاريخ : January 19, 2009 المؤلف: Zoellick, Robert B.
  • Egypt - Linking funding to outputs : expenditures of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation
    This review of the on-budget expenditure of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR) in Egypt describes the broad outline of the MARL's expenditures and identifies key themes and issues...
    النوع : Public Expenditure Review تقرير #: 47547 التاريخ : January 9, 2009
  • Conditional cash transfers : reducing present and future poverty - overview
    Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are programs that transfer cash, generally to poor households, on the condition that those households make pre specified investments in the human capital of their chi...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 61390 التاريخ : January 1, 2009 المؤلف: Ferreira, Francisco H. G. ; Fiszbein, Ariel ; Grosh, Margaret Ellen ; Keleher, Niall ; Olinto, Pedro ; Schady, Norbert Rudiger ; Skoufias, Emmanuel
  • Global investment promotion benchmarking 2009 (Vol. 1 of 2) : Overview
    The current global economic slowdown and associated financial instability are expected to significantly reduce flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2009 and beyond. The actual steepness of FDI ...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 49118 التاريخ : January 1, 2009
  • MIGA annual report 2009
    For Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the challenge this year has been promoting foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing countries at a time when investment flows are slumping. ...
    النوع : World Bank Annual Report تقرير #: 52033 التاريخ : January 1, 2009
  • The challenge of establishing world-class universities
    There are many important questions to ask about the widespread push toward world-class status for universities around the world. Why is 'world-class' the standard to which a nation should aspire to bu...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 47610 التاريخ : January 1, 2009 المؤلف: Salmi, Jamil
  • International Finance Corporation (IFC) annual report 2009 : their/our story - creating opportunity where it's needed most
    This report for the International finance Corporation (IFC) incorporates a strong thematic, visual, and story-telling approach to describing IFC's activities and results. It provides a comprehensive p...
    النوع : World Bank Annual Report تقرير #: 50887 التاريخ : January 1, 2009
  • Stolen asset recovery : a good practices guide for non-conviction based asset forfeiture
    Non-Conviction Based (NCB) asset forfeiture is a powerful tool for recovering the proceeds of corruption, particularly in cases where the proceeds have been transferred abroad. With an increased focus...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 48092 التاريخ : January 1, 2009 المؤلف: Grant, Wingate ; Gray, Larissa Alanna ; Greenberg, Theodore Stewart ; Samuel, Linda M.
  • The road not traveled : education reform in the Middle East and North Africa
    This report focuses on the economic rather than the social and cultural dimensions of education. Its approach in answering the questions raised is analytical and comparative in nature. Education outco...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 46789 التاريخ : January 1, 2009 المؤلف: Galal, Ahmed ; Welmond, Michel Jack ; Carnoy, Martin ; Nellemann, Soren ; Keller, Jennifer L. ; Wahba, Jackline ; Yamasaki, Izumi
  • Doing business 2009 : comparing regulation in 181 economies
    Doing Business 2009 is the sixth in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 47717 التاريخ : January 1, 2009
  • Exploring the role of civil society in the formulation and adoption of access to information laws : the cases of Bulgaria, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom
    The objective of this paper is to examine the role of civil society in both promoting and securing access to information (ATI) legislation and assisting in its implementation. The focus of the paper i...
    النوع : WBI Working Paper تقرير #: 47992 التاريخ : January 1, 2009 المؤلف: Puddephatt, Andrew
  • Improving food security in Arab countries
    This joint working paper lays out a rationale and strategic framework for improving food security and managing food-price shocks in the Arab countries. The paper does not provide country specific poli...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 50221 التاريخ : January 1, 2009 المؤلف: Lampietti, Julian A. ; Magnan, Nicholas ; Michaels, Sean David ; Mccalla, Alexander F. ; Saade, Maurice ; Khouri, Nadim
  • The SME banking knowledge guide
    Can small and medium enterprises (SME) be banked profitably, and is the market today an attractive one? How do banks overcome the challenges and capture the opportunities offered by the SME segment, p...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 51805 التاريخ : January 1, 2009
  • Navigating through the global recession : overview (Vol. 2) : Executive summary
    The global financial and economic crisis that began in mid-2007 in the US and has now led to the first global recession since World War two is impacting Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) coun...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 64088 التاريخ : January 1, 2009
  • From privilege to competition : unlocking private-led growth in the Middle East and North Africa - overview
    The report starts with an introductory chapter that sets the stage for the issues and provides a short historical background on the development of the private sector in Middle East and North Africa (M...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 67690 التاريخ : January 1, 2009