Recent events have drawn the world's attention to a crisis that has been building up for a long time-forced displacement. Beside five million Palestinians, over half of the refugees worldwide originate from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia - with Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of...

The 2005 Gleneagles G8 summit in July 2005 stimulated a concerted effort of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to broaden and accelerate programs on access to energy and climate change mitigation and adaptation through the Clean Energy Investment Framework (CEIF). At the Gleneagles...

The Global Poverty Report considers the effects of globalizing markets on poverty in developing countries. It outlines the channels through which increased trade openness can affect poverty and examines the evidence from four regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe and...

This paper identifies and briefly describes 20 entrepreneurial businesses throughout the CARIFORUM countries that, with additional resources, have the potential for growth, to accelerate the economic transformation process throughout the region and, from an overall perspective, enhance the...

This Compete Caribbean project is a precursor to the proposed "Competitive Caribbean" initiative. This brief identifies and collates a summary of the details relating to as many formal and informal cluster initiatives in the 15 CARIFORUM countries that can be identified within the resources...

El informe final de la primera fase del Programa entra21 ilustra cómo 35 proyectos ejecutados localmente han desarrollado distintas estrategias, para formar y capacitar a más de 19.000 jóvenes, colocando en puestos de trabajo a más de 10.000 y las lecciones aprendidas en este proceso.

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the IV Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on November 11th and 12th, 2002. ODEF initiated operating in 1985 and the credit program in 1989. Became self-sufficient in 1996. It...

This report evaluates the results of the first phase of the entra 21 program. It describes how 35 locally executed projects have implemented varying strategies to train some 19,000 young people, placing more than 10,000 in good jobs, and the lessons derived from these experiences.

El informe final de la primera fase del Programa entra21 ilustra cómo 35 proyectos ejecutados localmente han desarrollado distintas estrategias, para formar y capacitar a más de 19.000 jóvenes, colocando en puestos de trabajo a más de 10.000 y las lecciones aprendidas en este proceso.

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Reducción de la Pobreza y Protección Social del Diálogo Regional de Política para la IV Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 11 y 12 de noviembre de 2002. ODEF inició: operaciones en 1985 y programa de crédito en 1989. Logró...