• Microfinance and risk management - a client perspective
    As the microfinance industry matures, service providers are increasingly concerned with developing new and better products. This focus on new product development is a response to growing competition i...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 33447 التاريخ : May 1, 2000
  • The rush to regulate : legal frameworks for microfinance
    Formal credit and savings for the poor are not recent inventions: for decades, some customers neglected by commercial banks have been served by credit cooperatives and development finance institutions...
    النوع : Working Paper (Numbered Series) تقرير #: 33461 التاريخ : April 1, 2000 المؤلف: Peck Christen, Robert ; Rosenberg, Richard
  • International Finance Corporation (IFC) annual report 2000 : building business, creating opportunity (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report
    This is the International Finance Corporation (IFC) annual report for FY2000, which outlines its increased gross approvals, led by a record of new investments in Sub-Saharan Africa; the realization of...
    النوع : World Bank Annual Report تقرير #: 23445 التاريخ : January 1, 2000
  • World development report 1999/2000 : entering the 21st century
    The theme of this 22nd edition of the World Development Report is the changing development landscape in the 21st century. The Report focuses on two forces of change: the integration of the world econo...
    النوع : World Development Report تقرير #: 19279 التاريخ : January 1, 2000 المؤلف: Altaf, Anjum ; Dillinger, William R. ; Evenett, Simon J. ; Fay, Marianne ; Henderson, John Vernon ; Kenny, Charles J. ; Wu, Weiping ; Yusuf, Shahid
  • Telecommunications regulation handbook
    In recognition of the fundamental importance of an appropriate regulatory environment to accelerate connectivity, and access to information services, this handbook provides a practical reference sourc...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 24742 التاريخ : January 1, 2000 المؤلف: Intven, Hank [editor] ; Oliver, Jeremy ; Sepulveda, Edgardo
  • The East Asian miracle : economic growth and public policy (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report
    The report examines the public policies of 8 high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) from 1965 to 1990. It seeks to uncover the role those policies played in the dramatic economic growth, improved hum...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 12351 التاريخ : January 1, 2000 المؤلف: Birdsall, Nancy M. ; Campos, Jose Edgardo L. ; Kim, Chang-Shik ; Corden, W. Max ; MacDonald, Lawrence [editor] ; Pack, Howard ; Page, John ; Sabor, Richard ; Stiglitz, Joseph Eugene
  • The East Asian miracle : economic growth and public policy (Vol. 2 of 2) : Summary
    The report examines the public policies of 8 high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) from 1965 to 1990. It seeks to uncover the role those policies played in the dramatic economic growth, improved hum...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 12351 التاريخ : January 1, 2000 المؤلف: Birdsall, Nancy M. ; Campos, Jose Edgardo L. ; Kim, Chang-Shik ; Corden, W. Max ; MacDonald, Lawrence [editor] ; Pack, Howard ; Page, John ; Sabor, Richard ; Stiglitz, Joseph Eugene
  • Spinning off for sustainable microfinance : Save the Children Federation into JWDS, Al-Majmoua, and FATEN
    The only known spin-offs in the Middle East and North Africa's microfinance industry are Save the Children's microcredit programs in Jordan, Lebanon, and the West Bank and Gaza. Spinning off the Jorda...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 23075 التاريخ : December 31, 1999 المؤلف: Dhumale, Rahul ; Sapcanin, Amela ; Brandsma, Judith G.
  • Living our values : code of professional ethics (Vol. 1 )
    The Code of Professional Ethics is intended to serve as a user-friendly guide for staff and managers in day-to-day interactions and decision-making, consistent with the Bank's Mission, its Guiding Pri...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 21338 التاريخ : December 31, 1999
  • Commercial banking and microfinance in Egypt : National Bank for Development - case study
    This report reviews the microfinance industry in Egypt and analyzes the microfinance program of the National Bank for Development (NBD), the only commercial bank in the country that has established a ...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 23074 التاريخ : December 1, 1999 المؤلف: Dhumale, Rahul ; Sapcanin, Amela ; Tucker, William R.
  • An application of Islamic banking principles to microfinance : technical note
    Many elements of microfinance could be considered consistent with the broader goals of Islamic banking. Both systems advocate entrepreneurship and risk sharing and believe that the poor should take pa...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 23073 التاريخ : December 1, 1999 المؤلف: Dhumale, Rahul ; Sapcanin, Amela
  • International Finance Corporation (IFC) annual report 1999 (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report
    This report concerns the annual review of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) during fiscal year 1999. IFC earned $249 million in net income in fiscal year 1999, above the $246 million earned ...
    النوع : World Bank Annual Report تقرير #: 20800 التاريخ : August 1, 1999
  • Measuring microcredit delinquency : ratios can be harmful to your health
    Any delinquency or recovery percentage is a ratio-the result of dividing some numerator on the top of the fraction by some denominator on the bottom. Unless we know exactly what goes into the numerato...
    النوع : Working Paper (Numbered Series) تقرير #: 33460 التاريخ : June 1, 1999 المؤلف: Christen, Robert P. ; Rosenberg, Richard
  • Aid coordination and post-conflict reconstruction : the West Bank and Gaza experience
    With the Kosovo crisis capturing the world's attention, taking a look back at how the World Bank and the international donor community responded to other post-conflict reconstruction and aid coordinat...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 22986 التاريخ : April 30, 1999 المؤلف: Balaj, Barbara Sue ; Wallich, Christine I.
  • Yemen : forging a new consensus
    Yemen faces enormous challenges. Assistance to the country can be improved, however, if the International Development Association (IDA) establishes priorities in its future assistance strategy that ar...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 22973 التاريخ : April 30, 1999 المؤلف: Effron, Laurie
  • Education in the Middle East and North Africa : a strategy towards learning for development
    One challenge facing countries in the Middle East and North Africa is born of the region's success over the past decades. In most countries, central governments made great efforts to extend access to ...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 21589 التاريخ : April 1, 1999 المؤلف: Lockheed, Marlaine E. ; Avins, Jon ; Chang, Mae Chu ; Darnell, Bill ; Demetriou, Vasilios C. ; Ezzine, Mourad ; Maughan-Colon, Patricia ; Millot, Benoit ; Mulatu, Meskerem ; Parker, Mari ; Pham, Dung-Kim ; Steier, Francis A. ; Yuki, Takako ; SCHUBERT, JANE ; Van Eeghen, M. Willem
  • CGAP's pilot microfinance capacity-building initiative in Africa : what have we learned?
    The note describes the rationale, and objectives of the pilot micro-finance capacity-building initiative in Africa, to reinforce financial management, link African services providers to the Consultati...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 21201 التاريخ : February 28, 1999 المؤلف: Helms, Brigit S. ; Isern, Jennifer ; D'Ambrosio-Vitale, Nathalie
  • Development under adversity : the Palestinian economy in transition - summary
    The Palestinian economy has been operating below its enormous potential since the 1993 signing of the Declaration of Principles. This book documents the degrees to which the permit and closure policie...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 20179 التاريخ : January 31, 1999 المؤلف: Diwan, Ishac ; Shaban, Radwan Ali
  • West Bank and Gaza - Strengthening public sector management
    The Palestinian Authority faces potentially severe fiscal constraints in meeting the need for public services and investment over the medium term. Developing strong public sector institutions that fos...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 20002 التاريخ : January 1, 1999
  • 1998 Annual review of development effectiveness : foreword and executive summary : 1998 Annual review of development effectiveness (ARDE) : foreword and executive summary
    The Multilingual Foreword and Executive Summary to the 1998 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), complements the main report, numbered 18630. The summary expounds on the theme of the 199...
    النوع : IEG Evaluation تقرير #: 27613 التاريخ : January 1, 1999