Interested in expanding financial services to remote-rural areas, the Ford Foundation Affinity Group for Development Finance commissioned the Coady International Institute and a global team of researchers to conduct a study on member-owned financial institutions (MOIs). A key assumption for the study was that member-owned institutions offer distinct advantages for remote rural outreach.
The study involved several facets and spanned three years. First, a literature review was conducted on MOIs more...
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'Part of UNDP's growing inclusive market's initiative, the report Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor showcases 50 case studies by researchers in both emerging market economies and developed economies around the world. These studies demonstrate the successful pursuit of both revenues and socio-economic impact by local and international small-and medium sized enterprises as well as multinational corporations.
The report emphasises that the power of poor people t more...
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'The Sourcebook is a product of the OECD-DAC Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results, a group of bilateral and multilateral donors – and, more recently, of partner country representatives – that are working to promote the implementation of the Paris commitments.
'Most of all, the Sourcebook is intended to be a living document. As new good practices emerge and more countries and agencies gain experience, new case studies are intended to be added, continually updating the Sourceb more...
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'This publication presents the findings of the Initiative’s 2005-2006 thematic review on curbing corruption in public procurement. It highlights trends, approaches and achievements across 25 jurisdictions in Asia and the Pacific in a comparative overview that also presents a framework to guide policy development. It also contains reports on individual jurisdictions that provide details on existing policies in national contexts and on key elements of legal and institutional frameworks.'
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'IFC and the United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie of Harvard University, have released a consultation draft of the research paper they commissioned on foreign direct investment and human rights. Stabilization Clauses and Human Rights aims to raise awareness of the relationship between protecting investor rights and the host state's human rights obligations under international agreements.
The publication examines the imp more...
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'Doing Business (DB), an annual World Bank-IFC publication launched in 2004, is one of the Bank Group's flagship knowledge products. It
measures the burden of selected business regulations in 178 countries and ranks the countries on 10 dimensions. The program's stated objective is to advance the World Bank Group's private sector development agenda in four ways: motivate reforms through country benchmarking; inform the design of reforms; enrich international initiatives on development effectiven more...
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'The world of business does not bear the sole responsibility for the environmental problems confronting us - every single member of society does, meaning that private persons and the authorities and everyone else are summoned to change ecological course. However, in the world of political reality it is the impact of industry on the environment - with varying emphasis, depending on the field of activity - that occupies most often the foreground of public attention.'
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