• Breaking down the walls between microfinance and the formal financial system
    Microfinance enables the poor to build assets, diversify and increase incomes, and reduce their vulnerability to economic stress. Microfinance is sustainable: dozens of institutions have proved that f...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 83149 التاريخ : September 1, 2004 المؤلف: Littlefield, Elizabeth L. ; Rosenberg, Richard
  • Interest rate ceilings and microfinance : the story so far
    The high interest rates charged by many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have attracted the attention of policy makers throughout the world. Several concerns have been raised: Why do institutions that...
    النوع : Working Paper (Numbered Series) تقرير #: 33479 التاريخ : September 1, 2004 المؤلف: Helms, Brigit S. ; Reille, Xavier
  • Local economic development: a primer developing and implementing local economic development strategies and action plans
    The purpose of local economic development (LED) is to build up the economic capacity of a local area in order to improve its economic future and the quality of life for all. It is a process by which p...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 33769 التاريخ : September 1, 2004 المؤلف: Goga, Soraya ; Murphy, Ian Fergus ; Swinburn, Gwen
  • Housing microfinance
    Inadequate sanitation and housing threaten the lives and health of 600 million urban dwellers worldwide. By applying good microfinance practice to housing finance, a range of financial institutions ar...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 34240 التاريخ : August 1, 2004 المؤلف: Brusky, Bonnie
  • West Bank and Gaza Update
    West Bank and Gaza country team earns award for excellence. Leveraging budgetary support to the Palestinian Authority - the public financial management reform trust fund. Fiscal and monetary developme...
    النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 29915 التاريخ : August 1, 2004 المؤلف: Wetter, John ; Peresso, Elena ; Koussa, Mary [edit
  • Tunisia - Country assistance evaluation
    This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE), prepared in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank, reviews Tunisia's socioeconomic development since 1990, and the challenges facing the country, as...
    النوع : IEG Evaluation تقرير #: 29669 التاريخ : July 13, 2004
  • Financial institutions with a "double bottom line" : implications for the future of microfinance
    Most participants in the microfinance movement of recent decades see their goal as improving the availability and quality of financial services for poor and near-poor clients. Thus far, much of the mo...
    النوع : Working Paper (Numbered Series) تقرير #: 33478 التاريخ : July 1, 2004 المؤلف: Jayadeva, Veena ; Peck Christen, Robert ; Rosenberg, Richard
  • Lebanon quarterly update
    This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Lebanon Country Office. This issue features: The Next Five Months in Lebanon: An Opportunity for Short Term Action and Long Term Reform; Cost of Envir...
    النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 37123 التاريخ : July 1, 2004 المؤلف: Aviv, Chadi Bou ; Choucair, Farra ; Dessus, Sebastien C. ; El Khalil, Zeina ; Razzaz, Omar Ahmad Munif ; Saba, Joseph P. ; Sarraf, Maria ; Zacchia, Paolo B. ; Ziade, Mona
  • What is a network? The diversity of networks in microfinance today
    Throughout the development of the microfinance industry, network support organizations (NSOs) have played a critical role in launching new institutions, developing standards, wholesaling funds, provid...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 33456 التاريخ : July 1, 2004 المؤلف: Cook, Tamara B. ; Isem, Jennifer
  • The role of goverments in microfinance
    Historically, governments have used credit schemes as a way to transfer resources to specific target populations. The negative impact of most of these schemes has led many donors and experts to advoca...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 34239 التاريخ : June 30, 2004 المؤلف: Duflos, Eric Bertrand Pierre ; Imboden, Kathryn
  • Disengagement, the Palestinian economy and the settlements
    This report stresses that the deep economic crisis in the West Bank and Gaza threatens to impoverish and alienate a generation of young Palestinians. Moreover, today's economic crisis has been caused ...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 40460 التاريخ : June 23, 2004
  • Making microfinance work better in the Middle East and North Africa
    This report analyzes microfinance in the Middle East and North Africa, and offers recommendations on how to further develop the industry. Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the ent...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 29657 التاريخ : June 1, 2004 المؤلف: Brandsma, Judith ; Hart, Laurence
  • The impact of interest rate ceilings on microfinance
    Interest rate ceilings are found in many countries throughout the world. With the expansion of microfinance in developing countries, many legislators and the general public have found it difficult to ...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 34238 التاريخ : May 30, 2004 المؤلف: Duval, Ann
  • The home as factory floor : employment and remuneration of home-based workers
    Home-based work, defined as nonprofessionals who perform market work from their homes, is an increasingly recognized form of employment in Latin America. The majority of the research on this segment o...
    النوع : Policy Research Working Paper تقرير #: WPS3295 التاريخ : May 1, 2004 المؤلف: Cunningham, Wendy V. ; Gomez, Carlos Ramos
  • Rules of procedure for the GEF Council
    These rules provide the procedures that will be applied by the Council of the restructured Global Environment Facility (GEF) in the conduct of its business. The rules were adopted by the Council at it...
    النوع : Global Environment Facility Working Paper تقرير #: 34738 التاريخ : May 1, 2004
  • The impact of international trade on gender equality
    Does trade improve prospects for women's employment and promote greater gender equality in wages? Trade creates or expands some activities and destroys or diminishes others. If an individual works in ...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30200 التاريخ : May 1, 2004 المؤلف: Swamy, Gurushri N.
  • Instrument for the establishment of the restructured global environment facility
    Negotiations to restructure the Global Environment Facility (GEF) concluded at a GEF participants meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, in March 1994, with the acceptance by representatives of 73 states of ...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 46689 التاريخ : May 1, 2004
  • Lebanon quarterly update
    This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Lebanon Country Office. This issue features: Editorial: Visible Commitment and Urgent Action are needed for the Economy; Energy in Lebanon and the Rol...
    النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 37122 التاريخ : April 1, 2004 المؤلف: Bjerde, Anna M. ; Bou Habib, Chadi ; Dessus, Sebastien C. ; El Khalil, Zeina ; Razzaz, Omar Ahmad Munif ; Saba, Joseph P. ; Thirumalai, Srinivasan Gopalan ; Zacchia, Paolo B. ; Ziade, Mona
  • Minimizing negative distributional effects of public sector downsizing
    Downsizing programs are an important part of many public sector reforms supported by the World Bank. Although these programs can reduce budget deficits and address inefficiencies caused by state-led d...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30198 التاريخ : April 1, 2004 المؤلف: Razzaz, Susan R.
  • Gender-differentiated impacts of pension reform
    Many countries have initiated pension reform to cope with aging populations and fiscally unsustainable pension systems. The reforms often aim to separate the safety net and savings functions of pensio...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 30199 التاريخ : April 1, 2004 المؤلف: Van Selm, Alexandra