• Making sense of microcredit interest rates
    Why do microfinance institutions (MFIs) charge such high interest rates to the poor? This brief highlights some of the key issues related to microcredit interest rates and the role of donors. Microcr...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 34186 التاريخ : September 1, 2002 المؤلف: Goodwin-Groen, Ruth Patricia
  • Palestinian higher education financing strategy
    Higher education (HE) has developed quickly in Palestine over the last three decades, and faces expansion problems induced by pressing demand from a quickly increasing number of high school graduates,...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 26337 التاريخ : August 30, 2002
  • Long-term policy options for the Palestinian economy
    In light of deteriorating economic relations between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza, and suspended peace negotiations, it is timely at this juncture between the lapsed Interim Period and a final st...
    النوع : Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report تقرير #: 23765 التاريخ : July 1, 2002
  • Apex institutions in microfinance
    An apex institution is a second-tier or wholesale organization that channels funding (grants, loans, guarantees) to multiple microfinance institutions (MFIs) in a single country or region. Funding may...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 34185 التاريخ : July 1, 2002 المؤلف: Helms, Brigit S. ; Levy, Fred D. ; Rosenberg, Richard
  • Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) 2002 annual report - summary
    The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) 2002 annual report, discusses the challenges for MIGA during FY02, when a confluence of events, a troubled world economy, and the financial crisis i...
    النوع : World Bank Annual Report تقرير #: 26791 التاريخ : June 30, 2002
  • Globalization and firm competitiveness in the Middle East and North Africa Region
    Globalization has increased competitive pressures on firms. Together with rapid technological change, it has altered the environment in which firms operate. While globalization offers unprecedented op...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 24561 التاريخ : June 30, 2002 المؤلف: Fawzy, Samiha [editor] ; Madani, Dorsati H. ; Page, John ; Hafsi, De Taieb ; Stone, Andrew H. W. ; Nugent, Jeffrey B. ; Iskander, Magdi R. ; Chamlou, Nedereh ; Sullivan, John D. ; Lall, Sanjaya ; Mansour, Antoine ; El-Gamal, Mahmoud A. ; El-Megharbel, Nihal Magdy ; Inanoglu, Hulusi ; Tohamy, Sahar Mohamed
  • Egypt - Cost assessment of environmental degradation - Sector Note
    The report is a first step in a process towards the use of environmental damage cost assessments, for priority setting, and as an instrument for integrating environment, into economic, and social deve...
    النوع : Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report تقرير #: 25175 التاريخ : June 29, 2002
  • Jordan quarterly update
    This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Jordan country unit. This issue features: Recent economic developments. World Bank institutional development fund grant approved to tackle women's he...
    النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 26419 التاريخ : June 1, 2002
  • Savings are as important as credit : deposit services for the poor
    The poor save all the time. Savings are often the only way the poor can manage to pay for a major life event (such as a marriage or funeral), survive a natural disaster, or take advantage of a busines...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 34184 التاريخ : June 1, 2002
  • Republic of Yemen - Economic growth : sources, constraints and potentials
    High and sustained rate of economic growth in Yemen is a necesary, though not sufficient, condition for reduction of the high incidence of poverty and for raising the living standards of Yemeni citize...
    النوع : Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report تقرير #: 24514 التاريخ : May 31, 2002
  • Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink
    In January 2002, CGAP published a "Viewpoint" on the Microfinance Gateway entitled "Water, Water Everywhere, but not a Drop to Drink." The Viewpoint sparked a frank discussion among 78 donor, investor...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 34183 التاريخ : May 1, 2002 المؤلف: Helms, Brigit S. ; Mcinerny, Peggy
  • Microcredit : One of many intervention strategies
    Microcredit is one of many intervention strategies designed to alleviate poverty, generate income and promote employment. Due to its current popularity among donors, however, microcredit risks becomin...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 34182 التاريخ : April 1, 2002 المؤلف: Parker, Joan C. ; Pearce, Douglas
  • Microfinance donor projects : 12 questions about sound practice
    This note poses 12 questions microfinance projects should consider to be effective. They include questions determining the aptness of credit for the targeted clients; the poverty level of clients and ...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 34165 التاريخ : April 1, 2002
  • International public goods : incentives, measurement, and financing
    Increasingly, the consequences of globalization call for the involvement, not only of national governments, but of the international development community as a whole. Such involvement needs to occur w...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 24884 التاريخ : March 31, 2002 المؤلف: Barrett, Scott ; Ferroni, Marco [editor] ; Hewitt, Adrian P. ; Mody, Ashoka [editor] ; Morrissey, Oliver ; Sandler, Todd ; Willem te Velde, Dirk
  • The development and regulation of non-bank financial institutions
    Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) are becoming an increasingly important segment of the financial system in some developing countries. This book aims to create awareness of the promise of NBFIs ...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 24893 التاريخ : March 31, 2002 المؤلف: Carmichael, Jeffrey ; Pomerleano, Michael
  • Jordan quarterly update
    This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Jordan country unit. This issue features: Recent economic developments. Bank Group operations. World Bank publications. Knowledge for development.
    النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 26418 التاريخ : March 1, 2002
  • Economic growth in the Republic of Yemen : sources, constraints, and potentials
    High and sustained rate of economic growth in Yemen is a necesary, though not sufficient, condition for reduction of the high incidence of poverty and for raising the living standards of Yemeni citize...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 24976 التاريخ : January 1, 2002
  • Globalization, growth, and poverty : building an inclusive world economy
    Societies and economies around the world are becoming more integrated. Integration is the result of reduced costs of transport, lower trade barriers, faster communication of ideas, rising capital flow...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 23591 التاريخ : January 1, 2002
  • World Bank annual report 2002
    This annual report covers the period from July 1, 2001, to June 30, 2002, and is prepared by the Executive Directors of both the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the In...
    النوع : World Bank Annual Report تقرير #: 24908 التاريخ : January 1, 2002
  • Apex institutions in microfinance
    This paper reviews the experience of national microfinance apexes-wholesale mechanisms that channel funds, with or without supporting technical services, to retail microfinance institutions (MFIs) in ...
    النوع : Working Paper (Numbered Series) تقرير #: 33463 التاريخ : January 1, 2002 المؤلف: Levy, Fred D.