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ADB-OECD Study on Enhancing Financial Accessibility for SMEs: Lessons from Recent Crises

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

The report takes a comparative look at ADB and OECD experiences, and aims to identify promising policy solutions for creating an SME base that is resilient to crisis, from a viewpoint of access to finance, and which can help drive growth and development.

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Asia Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Finance Monitor 2013

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

The Asia SME Finance Monitor 2013 is the knowledge sharing product on SMEs in Asia and the Pacific, specially focusing on SME access to finance. The Monitor reviews various country aspects of SME finance covering the banking sector, nonbank sector, and capital markets. It is expected to support...

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Re-invigorating Private Sector Investment: A Private Sector Assessment in Fiji

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

This private sector assessment reviews Fiji’s private sector environment in 2006–2012, against recommendations made in ADB’s 2005 Promise Unfulfilled: Private Sector Assessment for Fiji. While fiji has made considerable reform progress in a number of areas (including tax reforms,...

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Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative: Progress Report 2013

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2014

The Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI) is a regional technical assistance facility cofinanced by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Australian Aid, and the New Zealand Aid Programme. PSDI works with ADB’s 14 Pacific developing member countries to improve the enabling...

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The Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative in 2011: Focus, Issues, and Outcomes

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

This publication describes further progress of ongoing and recently undertaken initiatives for the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI). It highlights the issues and many of the encouraging outcomes resulting from earlier efforts. It also explores issues expected to emerge in the...

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Assessment of Microinsurance as Emerging Microfinance Service for the Poor: The Case of the Philippines

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been one of the few active partners for microfinance development in the Philippines. It has contributed to the growth of formal microfinance activities, including expanding the outreach of diversified formal financial services to poor clients at the most...

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Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Operational Plan, 2013–2020: Moving the Agenda Forward in Asia and the Pacific

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

The operational plan sets out the strategic directions and the guiding framework to advance the gender equality agenda … and deliver better gender equality outcomes in Asia and the Pacific by 2020. Under the new gender operational plan, the … Asian Development Bank (ADB) will intensify its efforts to ensure that gender equality remains at the front and center of …

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Gender Equality and the Labor Market: Cambodia, Kazakhstan and the Philippines

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

Based on an analysis of gender inequalities, strategies and promising initiatives to countergender discrimination and … development of decent work and gender equality good practices in Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines. The report is part of … a series consisting of: •Good Global Legal Practices to Promote Gender Equality in the Labor Market •Good Global …

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Good Global Legal Practices to Promote Gender Equality in the Labor Market

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

countries, because many women continue to experience gender inequalities at work. An analysis of strategies to counter gender … Gender Equality in the Labor Market •Good Global Legal Practices to Promote Gender Equality in the Labor Market •Gender … Equality and the Labor Market: Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines •Gender Equality in the Labor Market in Cambodia …

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Good Global Economic and Social Practices to Promote Gender Equality in the Labor Market

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

countries, because many women continue to experience gender inequalities at work. An analysis of strategies to counter gender … to Promote Gender Equality in the Labor Market •Good Global Legal Practices to Promote Gender Equality in the Labor … Market •Gender Equality and the Labor Market: Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines •Gender Equality in the Labor Market …

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