Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a central role in developing countries, socially as well as economically. Lasting private sector development depends on them. Yet they have a hard time, struggling...
There is an enormous need for creative new approaches to assisting small businesses in developing countries. So the World Bank Group has launched a new program to develop more and better ways to support...
Through a series of specialized small and medium enterprise (SME) facilities around the world, IFC and its partners provide local entrepreneurs with technical assistance needed to build commercially viable...
By collaborating with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has been able to finance many promising, small, market-oriented environmental projects that it otherwise...
Shorebank is a small, for-profit, US-based financial services holding company that emphasizes community banking. In 1983 the bank began in microfinance. It worked first in Bangladesh by advising donors...
The ICT agenda of the World Bank Group: an interview with Mohsen Khalil. Challenging ICT projects at the Stockholm Challenge. Lessons from ICT stories. eXchange meets Dr. Mitra. Making a digital difference....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24734Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Scaramuzzi, Elena [editor]
ESSD news: ESSD European Forum a success. Sector news - Environment: Environment strategy consultations kick into action. Global public opinion and the environment. GEF council approved 12 new Bank-GEF...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23127Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Ahmad,Nilufar ;
Alkire, Sabine ;
Bebbington, Tony ;
Bradford,Bonnie ;
Brown,Gillian M. ;
Canby,Kerstin Stephanie ;
Clark,Fiona C. ;
Davanger,Frode ;
Del Castillo,Concepcion Esperanza ;
Fernandes,Monica ;
Giovannucci,Daniele P. ;
Goodland,Robert James ;
Hanrahan,David C. ;
Huber, Richard ;
Klopfer Hernandez,Alexandra ;
Lovei,Magda ;
Rex,William ;
Riethmacher,Guenter ;
Senderowitsch,Roberto Adrian ;
Sera,Yumi ;
Slok,Julie ;
Stover,Christine Anne ;
Tarifa,Ricardo L. B. ;
Tikare,Seema ;
Thompson, Bob ;
Vidaeus,Lars O. ;
Walton,Michael
This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: Donors pledge US$2.6B in new financial assistance. Providing opportunities for the out-of-school youth. About the global...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23225Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Gonzales,Leonora Aquino
Charting the CGIAR's future - a new vision for 2010: mid-term meeting, Dresden, May 21-26. Global Forum Convenes. CGIAR Chairman Serageldin to step down July 10: World Bank Vice President Ian Johnson named...
Innovative initiatives : Bank loans to harvest water - a community in Kutch mobilizes resources to meet its water needs. Editorial - Anil Kumar. News Briefs : 2000 water supply and sanitation forum - investing...
Pioneering work in a tough sector; an interview with Nemat Shafik. New directions in metrics: evaluating the impact of SME work. East African entrepreneurs build market for business services. After the...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 20984Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Sunshine,Catherine Ann
Until recently, only investment loans and credits were subject to environmental assessment (EA) and other safeguards, while macroeconomic policy reform programs, including sector and structural adjustment...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 20932Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Alaerts,Guy J.
Building coalitions for change. Small grants program: developing from the ground up. Events and activity update. Bringing women out of the silence. Helping women help themselves.
This Bank's world newsletter includes some of the following headings: bank study upbeat on Africa; report says growth and democracy picking up; UN gender conference: Beijing follow-up plan agreed; our...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 64374Date: June 1, 2000Author:
Ferrey,Katherine M. ;
Gentile,Angela M. ;
Radhika,Yeddanapudi ;
Wamey, Julius M. [editor]
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: earth unbalanced: new reports reveals decline in world ecosystems; it's a miracle: staff regains hearing after years of dead silence,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57013Date: May 1, 2000Author:
Delgadillo,Cynthia Raquel ;
Floyd,Thomas Jerry ;
George-Alleyne,Ramatoulaye ;
Jackson,Vivian R. ;
Wamey,Julius Mberiley
ESSD's annual gathering. The Hague World Water Forum. WB/NGO activities during the Spring Meetings. UN Commission on Sustainable Development to focus on land and agriculture. ESSD European Forum. WB/WWW...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23126Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Bradford, Bonnie ;
Brandriss, Peter ;
Cantrell, Jim
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the West Bank and Gaza office. The article Poverty in the West Bank and Gaza attempts to open a dialogue on poverty in the West Bank and Gaza (WBG). How much...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24923Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Sbeih, Ma'moon [editor]
Prospects and challenges for Russia : Davidson Institute surveys 100 leading transition economists; by Jan Svejnar. Ten years of transition : lessons drawn. The road to a free economy - ten years after;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 20508Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Hirschler, Richard [editor] ;
Svejnar, Jan ;
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