Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are an innovative institutional model to channel financing and knowledge to developing countries. In Latin America, the balance of forces between competition and collaboration among MDBs and other sources of development finance have formed a system that is...

Over the past decade we have witnessed a double convergence. Aid donors have developed a growing interest in the private sector while private banks have set about creating corporate social responsibility programs, sustainable lending and microfinance programmes. As a consequence, the dialogue...

<p>This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance under economic and ethical aspects. It first shows how microfinance has developed from a purely welfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking business. The background of this stunning success is the...</p>

Many proponents of action research for democracy seem to presuppose that to anchor action research in democratic ideals is a sufficient base for action researchers to legitimate their democratic purposes and intentions. This article starts out from the presupposition that anchoring action...

The study assesses strategies of various developmental organizations in Abbottabad to incorporate gender in Project management. This is census based research because of various limitations attached with data collection, whole population considered to reduce the chances of maximum error. Data...

В статье обоснована необходимость корректировки реализуемого Центральным банком РФ курса, акцентирующегося преимущественно на административно-экономических...

В статье приведены основные характеристики современного бума потребительского кредитования в России. Меры регулирования бума потребительского кредитования...

В статье сформулирован ряд авторских гипотез о взаимосвязи устойчивого развития депрессивных территорий и политики федерального, регионального и...

The paper deals with the main features of the modern boom in consumer lending in Russia. The question under discussion is paid special attention in context of increasing risks both for households which obtain the credits and for financial credit system in whole. In Russia, 57% of consumers...

In recent years, BRIC countries have demonstrated high rates of economic growth, rapid increases in GDP per capita and growing capital accumulation, and have been playing an increasingly important role in the global economy. However, as middle-income countries (low-income in the case of India),...