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Geographical Distributio...
Disbursements, Commitments, Country Indicators
This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries for the period 2002-2006.The data show each country's intake of Official Development Assistance or Official Aid, as well as other off...
(2008)
322 Reads
Geographical Distributio...
Disbursements, Commitments, Country Indicators
This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries for the period 2004-2008. The data show each country's intake of official development assistance and well as other official and priv...
(2010)
278 Reads
Export Credit Financing ...
2007 Update
Financing is essential for international trade, and the world's official export credit agencies play a vital role by providing, loans, guarantees and insurance for such finance. This publication offers a comprehensive description of the official export credit systems of OECD M...
(2008)
126 Reads
Financing patterns of Eu...
As Buy-Outs became larger and more levered in the mid 2000’s the European Leveraged Finance market experienced a wave of innovations. This research is concentrating on the capitalisation process of leveraged Buy-Outs in Europe, taking the perspective of an equity investor. We ...
(2009)
110 Reads
African Central Governme...
Statistical Yearbook
This book provides provides comprehensive and consistent information on African central government debt statistics for the period 2003-2007. Detailed quantitative information on central government debt instruments is provided for fourteen countries (Angola, Cameroon, Kenya, Ma...
(2010)
103 Reads
Microfinance Handbook
An Institutional and Financial Perspective
Microfinance is not simply banking; it is a development tool. It has been estimated that there are 500 million economically active poor people in the world operating microenterprises and small businesses. Most of them do not have access to adequate financial services. The purp...
(1998)
96 Reads
Europäische Finanzmarkta...
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung. Heft 4, 74. Jahrgang (2005).
Die europäische Finanzmarktarchitektur ist von zentraler Bedeutung für das Zusammenwachsen innerhalb der Europäischen Union und für deren Wachstumsperspektiven. Denn anders als die USA kann Europa nicht auf ein homogenes Finanzsystem blicken. Vielmehr sind ...
(2006)
72 Reads
Sovereign Debt and the F...
Will This Time Be Different?
by Carlos A. Pr... and Gallina A. V...
In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, governments worldwide undertook massive fiscal interventions to stave off what otherwise would have likely been a system-wide financial and economic meltdown. The policy responses engendered significant shifts in growth trajectories...
(2010)
139 Reads
The Little Data Book on ...
by World Bank
'The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2010' is one of a series of pocket-sized books intended to provide a quick reference to development data on different topics. It provides data for more than 20 key indicators on business environment and private sector develop...
(2010)
46 Reads
Cost-Benefit Analysis an...
Recent Developments
This book presents an in-depth assessment of the most recent conceptual and methodological developments in cost-benefit analysis and the environment.It examines how costs and benefits are evaluated and given monetary value, how to take into account impacts on future generation...
(2006)
74 Reads
Conditional Cash Transfers
Reducing Present and Future Poverty
by Ariel Fiszbein and Norbert R. S...
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include enrolling children into public s...
(2009)
18 Reads
The Little Data Book on ...
by World Bank
'The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2008' is one of a series of pocket-sized books intended to provide a quick reference to development data on different topics. 'The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2008' provides data for more than 20 key indica...
(2008)
9 Reads
Financing Development 2008
Whose Ownership?
Aid alone cannot finance development; bringing in fresh sources of finance is essential. The emergence of a multiplicity of new financing options is good news for developing countries, but it also raises challenges. The authors in this stimulating book assess the changing land...
(2008)
44 Reads
Managing Risk and Creati...
by Mike Goldberg and Eric Palladini
'Managing Risk and Creating Value with Microfinance' brings together the latest information on microfinance institutional sustainability from leading international experts and microfinance practitioners in four Latin American countries. Each chapter focuses one topic: risk man...
(2010)
8 Reads
Making Finance Work for ...
by Patrick Honohan and Thorsten Beck
'Making Finance Work for Africa' takes a panoramic view of Africa's financial systems, both at the large scale ('finance for growth') and the small scale ('finance for all'). Things are changing for the better in African finance. Credit growth is underway after a long pause, ...
(2007)
8 Reads
Pricing Foreign Exchange...
Incorporating Purchasing Power Parity (Second edition)
This book develops a new and interesting approach to the valuation of foreign exchange options. The authors synthesise international monetary theory with the Samuelson-Black-Scholes insight that assets prices follow diffusion processes, and obtain a system of stochastic differ...
(2010)
6 Reads
The SME Financing Gap (V...
Proceedings of the Brasilia Conference, 27-30 March 2006
A significant number of entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could use funds productively if they were available, but are often denied access to financing. This impedes their creation and growth. The "financing gap" was the subject of the OECD Global Con...
(2007)
3 Reads
The Little Data Book on ...
by World Bank
'The Little Data Book on External Debt' provides a quick reference for users interested in external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, and the currency composition of long-term debt for all countries reporting through the Debtor Reporting system...
(2009)
3 Reads
The SME Financing Gap (V...
Theory and Evidence
The lack of fundingavailable from the financial sector for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is known as the "financing gap". This timely report analyses this gap for both credit and equity financing and seeks to determine how prevalent such a gap may be, both among OE...
(2006)
1 Read
Global Development Finan...
Charting a Global Recovery
by World Bank
'Global Development Finance' - the World Bank's annual report on the external financing of developing countries - provides monitoring and analysis of development finance, identifying key emerging trends and policy challenges in international financial flows that are likely to ...
(2009)
1 Read
