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Discusses small enterprise development and private sector development as key methods for alleviating poverty.
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The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls are missing or not used efficiently, crises can reverse progress even in advanced economies. This unexpected outcome has increased concerns about the ability of governments in...
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by three indicators related to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and then examine its effect on poverty reduction at the …
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control remains a public sector responsibility …
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The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the … be done. Most microfinance institutions (MFIs) are still small and vulnerable to constraints on their resources and to … some MFIs. The overall goal was to clarify the conditions under which state investment in microfinance programs might …
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This Selected Issues paper reviews the extent to which growth in Ethiopia has translated into higher living standards. A key feature of the economic strategy has been an explicit commitment to poverty reduction and structural transformation. This is underpinned by the vision of a...
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This paper assesses the effect of public and private sector growth on poverty in Indonesia. We use fixed capital formation growth as the proxy for the private sector and growth in government spending as the indicator of the public sector. We find that growth in both sectors significantly reduces...
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The Bank's Competitiveness Strategy (GN-2243-1) establishes a framework to assist member countries to make improvements in their economic and institutional environments in order to promote the sustainable development of productive economic activities and increase productivity. Bank Group...
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