Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Jamaica:
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May 25, 2012 - 5:02pm
from Mundo Microfinanzas
CDBProyectan moderado crecimiento para 2012 en la región. Los países del Caribe registraron durante 2011 resultados económicos divergentes, todavía bajo el impacto de la crisis económica y financiera global, y se aguarda que 2012 presente índices de un moderado crecimiento, de entre el 1 y el 1,5 %, según estimaciones del Banco ...
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May 16, 2012 - 10:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Years after debt campaigners succeeded in persuading the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and G8 to abolish debts worth billions of dollars owed by developing countries, figures show total external debts are once again on the increase.Data in the World Bank's
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May 3, 2012 - 12:00pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
Why aren't all early childhood interventions most effective at the same age? Should we be checking that our randomizations are balanced according to genes that influence behavior? Should we be gathering biological outcomes, in addition to economic ones, even when the intervention does not involve biology?Early childhood interventions - usually working through either health or education – can have very long-lasting effects, some of which are even transmitted to the next ...
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December 15, 2011 - 7:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
For people in the UK, a weak deal at Durban on climate change may be disappointing, but it is not something that will affect their everyday life – at least not for some years to come.In Haiti, though, hurricanes are ...
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September 9, 2011 - 5:52pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Adriana Magdas
Couple at store in Nepal.
In celebration of its 3rd anniversary, the Center for Financial Inclusion is organizing an after-hours event at its Washington, DC office. Guests can view a photo exhibit demonstrating disability inclusion in countries ...
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August 9, 2011 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
Senior economic advisers in Greece and a couple of other European countries are considering defaulting on part of their debt. Not to be taking such a course of action seriously would be irresponsible. Defaulting can never be plan A. But when countries get into ...
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August 5, 2011 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
The fundamental instinct at the heart of Cuba's revolution in 1959 was that slower wealth creation and limited political repression were a price worth paying for fairer distribution, and the consequent eradication of extreme poverty. It may not have been articulated as such, but that is how it has ...
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June 28, 2011 - 7:25pm
from All About Finance - A blog by Asli Demirguc-Kunt
One of the interesting debates in the finance and development literature is on financial structures: does the mix of institutions and markets that make up the financial system have any impact on the development process? Last week we hosted an interesting conference on the topic at the World Bank (
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June 25, 2011 - 2:06pm
from Microfinance Africa
BY Priscilla Murphy, Jamaica Observer
IN the microfinance industry, even the best-positioned institutions eventually run into difficulties obtaining funding. Particularly in the Caribbean, where the strength of microfinance institutions varies widely, having access to stock market funding is no minor feat. This is why many lenders in the region look to the example of Access Financial Services Limited (AFS), the Jamaica-based provider of micro-, ...
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May 25, 2011 - 2:31pm
from All About Finance - A blog by Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Brain drain worries policymakers around the world. For example, a search today in Google News gives a host of stories in the past month alone concerning efforts by universities in Vietnam to stop brain drain, demands for wage increases to stop the brain drain ...
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May 5, 2011 - 7:58am
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Rosita Najmi
Visitors view original photo exhibit on UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, December 3, 2010. (USAID)
The Center’s program on Financial Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities is honored to host a photo exhibit, “USAID and Inclusive Development: Mainstreaming Disability in the Millennium Development Goals: ...
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April 27, 2011 - 3:51pm
from Private Sector Development Blog
Emiko Todoroki, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, the World Bank and the chief organizer of the Caribbean Remittance Forum
Talking about remittances, that is, sending money to a home country in the Caribbean region is not new. In fact, it is an everyday issue. Remittances are an important source of income to the world’s poor, and certainly the case in the Caribbean Region. For example, remittances represent more than 20% of GDP in Guyana; and almost one in two households in ...
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April 14, 2011 - 9:40am
from Acumen Fund Blog
“Thank God for granting this moment of clarity/This moment of honesty…” -Jay-Z
I remember traveling from school to home as a child. This required a fairly long walk to the bus depot. It also required avoiding temptations, such as a nearby stream that offered fishing prospects, and stores with candy. Getting in the bus was a process — I use that word charitably — that involved pushing my way through a horde of older, taller travelers, eager to get home. Sweaty, tired, ...
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