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African Regional Integration and the Role of the European Union, ZEI Discussion Paper
http://aei.pitt.edu/9046/01/dp_c184_Kuehnhardt.pdf
African regional integration has had a remarkable new beginning since the formal beginning of the African Union (AU) in 2002. Following the Treaty of Abuja, in force since 2004 and envisaging an African Economic Community in six stages by 2028, and following the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), since 2002 a mandated initiative of the African Union including NEPAD’s unique African Peer Review Mechanism for the measuring of good governance, the African Union has become the frame for a new African regionalism.
BICC brief 38 ‘‘Digging for Peace –
Private Companies and Emerging Economies in Zones of Conflict”http://www.bicc.de/uploads/pdf/publications/briefs/brief38/b....
BICC, in association with the European Fatal Transactions network, held the international conference ‘‘DIGGING FOR PEACE - Private Companies and Emerging Economies in Zones of Conflict’‘ at the Deutsche Welle in Bonn in November 2008.
Business Associations, Business Climate, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Transition Economieshttp://www.cipe.org/publications/papers/pdf/IP%2008-07%20ISN....
Link between business associations and economic growth in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe is re-examined through the prism of new institutional economics. By promoting a better business climate, market-enhancing business associations can help to build the foundation for economic growth.
Eldis OnDisc CD-ROMhttp://community.eldis.org/.59933323/Blog/
This CD-ROM was produced in February 2009 by Eldis, at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK. It contains a selection of over 400 full text documents of manuals, toolkits and handbooks featured on Eldis from 1994 to mid-2008. The work of over 150 development organisations is presented, covering a wide range of subjects. Contact eldisondisc@ids.ac.uk if you would like us to send you more copies of this disc to share with your network or with colleagues and associates at meetings, conferences and training events.
Guide to responsible sourcinghttp://tinyurl.com/dfqfjf
To help companies develop their own approaches to responsible sourcing, this guide provides a series of practical steps from a global and multisectoral perspective. These steps are based on real-life experiences from around the world, and can be used by companies of all sizes, sectors and regions.
How the Most Successful Reformers Organized Themselveshttp://rru.worldbank.org/documents/publicpolicyjournal/318Ci....
Only a small number of developing economies have managed to grow out of poverty in one generation, sustaining GDP per capita growth at rates averaging more than 4 percent a year. Achieving this economic performance required deep microeconomic reforms spanning many policy areas and industries.
Improving impact evaluation production and use, ODI Working Paper 300http://tinyurl.com/cbmdq3
The past five years have seen a proliferation of impact evaluations (IEs) by development agencies across the globe. This report was commissioned by the UK Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) Evaluation Department to inform discussions on impact evaluation production and use within the Network of Networks Impact Evaluation Initiative (NONIE). The paper concludes with policy implications regarding: strategic coordination, funding, knowledge management, capacity strengthening mechanisms and improving impact evaluation communication and uptake.
Is Informal Normal? Towards more and better jobs in developing countrieshttp://tinyurl.com/de9umr
An OECD Development Centre Perspective edited by Johannes P. Jütting and Juan R. de Laiglesia. Employment has a key role to play in reducing poverty and improving well-being. In the context of the OECD Development Centre’s Programme of Work 2007-2008, this study sheds new light on an old topic: how can we deal better with the reality of labour markets in developing countries with a view to achieving the Millennium Development Goals?
Making value chains work better for the poor: a toolbook for practitioners of value chain analysishttp://tinyurl.com/exqys
Organized in two sections, the manual provides theoretical background on value chains as well as the pro-poor entry points for value chain analysis. It also outlines a set of eight value chain analysis tools, four of which are ‘core’ tools and four of which are ‘advanced’ tools, for undertaking pro-poor value chain analysis.
Microfinance and Climate Change: Threats and Opportunitieshttp://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.10508/
In this focus note, CGAP offers MFIs practical guidance for enlisting microfinance clients in the fight against climate change. Microfinance institutions can have an exponential impact by empowering millions of clients with the knowledge and financing to effect positive change in their own communities.
Microfinance and the real economy: impacts and outcomes of the global economic crisishttp://tinyurl.com/djoy68
The current economic and social crisis provides an opportunity to re-think values and business models in finance. ILO Online spoke with Bernd Balkenhol, chief of the ILO's Social Finance Programme.
Microfinance Managers Consider Online Funding: Is It Finance, Marketing or Something Else Entirely? CGAP Focus Notehttp://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.26.5301
Online lending platforms like Kiva.org and MicroPlace.com have become wildly successful in raising funds for microentrepreneurs from individual online lenders and investors. But what are the pros and cons for microfinance institutions (MFIs)? These platforms use different business models, have varying legal issues, and have widely divergent business and social objectives.
Migration and Remittances Factbook 2008http://tinyurl.com/5o6ct5
This World Bank factbook provides a snapshot of migration and remittances for all countries, regions and income groups of the world, compiled from available data from various sources. For the latest remittances data, please see Remittances data.
No Growth without Equity?http://issuu.com/world.bank.publications/docs/9780821377673
The World Bank book analyzes this at two levels: first, exploring the links between inequality, interests, and economic growth; second, providing specific examples as to how rent-seeking behavior in key sectors of Mexico’s economy produce inefficiencies that are a source of low growth and income concentration. Mexico’s growth problem is unlikely to be solved if these underlying inequalities are not tackled; this has large implications for policy design. Edited by Michael Walton and Santiago Levy.
Opportunity and exploitation in urban labour markets:
better economic opportunity does not always mean better workhttp://tinyurl.com/exqys
A new briefing paper brought out by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) examines urbanisation and urban poverty from a labour market perspective and proposes ways in which urban development can be better managed.
Outlook for Remittance Flows 2008-2010: Growth expected to moderate significantly, but flows to remain resilienthttp://tinyurl.com/7pb4cd
After several years of strong growth, remittance flows to developing countries began to slow down in the third quarter of 2008. This slowdown is expected to deepen further in 2009 in response to the global financial crisis, although the exact magnitude of the growth moderation (or outright decline in some cases) is hard to predict given the uncertainties about global growth, commodity prices, and exchange rates.
Peace Economies - a new frontier for sustainable enterprisehttp://www.impact-dtg.com/articles/Page-3.html
Impact International have published a paper which explores the role the private sector can play in bringing fresh opportunities to regions mired in conflict.
Peacebuilding at a Crossroads? Dilemmas and Paths for Another Generationhttp://www.frient.de/materialien/detaildoc.asp?id=976
Berghof Handbook Dialogue-Series by Beatrix Schmelzle and Martina Fischer (Eds.)
Supporting Regional Economic Integration and Cooperationhttp://tinyurl.com/cm3hps
Regional integration can be seen as a multidimensional process where constituent states interact in different policy areas, including not only economic cooperation, but also foreign policy and security issues, social sectors and a cultural dimension. Nevertheless, trade and the economy remain central aspects of most ongoing integration schemes and the number of regional economic integration agreements is steadily increasing.
Sustainability - the Unfinished Business. Challenges in International Cooperation.http://tinyurl.com/ddfp54
Edited by GTZ and Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (RNE), the essays are intentended to show how the quest for sustainable development can provide orientation to all international cooperation.
The business of product innovation : international empirical evidencehttp://tinyurl.com/dgt76w
It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliché to say so. This World Bank article studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight manufacturing sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric evidence suggests that globalization and local knowledge increase the likelihood that firms will introduce new products. By contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation.
The New Moneylenders: Are the Poor Being Exploited by High Microcredit Interest Rates.http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.9.9534/
The CGAP report finds that while there are a few institutions charging rates that seem unreasonably high, most interest rates seem to be in line with MFIs costs. The report also finds that microcredit rates have been dropping by 2.3 percentage points each year since 2003, much more steeply than the decline of bank loan rates. Administrative costs are also declining along with lenders' profits- the savings are being passed to borrowers.
The private sector in security sector reform:
Essential but not yet Optimizedhttp://www.frient.de/materialien/detaildoc.asp?id=963
United States Institute of Peace Briefing by Robert Perito
The rural finance landscape. A practitioner's guidehttp://www.networklearning.org/library/task,doc_download/gid....
This practitioner’s guide covers different financial services, products and methodologies. It takes you through different types of financial service providers and discusses good practices.
Why Aid Does Not Increase Savings Rates in Sub-Saharan Africahttp://www.soas.ac.uk/cdpr/publications/dv/49682.pdf
John Serieux of the University of Manitoba, and Terry McKinley, Director of CDPR, examine the debate on whether ODA has had a negative impact on savings rates in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on panel data for 29 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1965-2006, they maintain that standard analyses of this question have failed to recognize that a significant proportion of ODA has become a reverse capital outflow, with no impact on either domestic consumption or savings. This proportion becomes larger, they also note, when ODA is being continuously scaled up.
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