This paper reviews the achievements of the 'microfinance revolution', through reference to the now extensive literature. It finds that there are many opportunities to improve and innovate. To illustrate this finding, the paper concentrates on examining what we need to know to design and deliver...

The capacity of the poor of Bangladesh to save is surprizingly large-surprizing to observers, and surprizing to the poor themselves. This capacity has long been used, with modest success, as the basis for self-help savings-and-loan devices that the poor (like others) have used in the absence of...

Written by a team of experts in Caribbean business education, Principles of Business for CSECRG engages students with the fundamental concepts of business, and encourages the development of their critical thinking and entrepreneurial skills.

Study Guides for CAPE have been developed and written by CXC to provide CAPE candidates in schools and colleges with resource materials to help them prepare for their exams. Matching the topics in the syllabus, the student-friendly structure and content enable students to develop their skills...

How do countries create and replicate socio-economic success? This book argues that success comes from how people make sense of their institutions when they are placed under stress. When institutional frameworks are challenged, a range of agents engaged in sensemaking processes that invoke...

A scholarly edition of a work by Adam Smith. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Developing counties all around the globe have been trying to adopt market-driven institutional systems. As the pace of economic reforms gains momentum, it becomes increasingly evident that these reforms have resulted in new challenges and issues. For example, the economic growth which picked up...