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World Trade Organization (WTO). GATS, which was decided upon at the end of the Uruguay Round but not negotiated in detail …
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The large-scale failures of development banks in the 1970s and 1980s meant that they all but disappeared from the development agenda. However, there are still a large number of development banks worldwide that operate with various degrees of success. Some governments are also looking to...
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In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. This paper argues that the World Bank's success story rests on a weak empirical foundation. The evidence does not … support the view that poverty concerns and policy assessments dominated the distribution of World Bank financing in the 1990s …
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reconstruction of the financial architecture does not only lack political support. As argued below, some radical reform proposals are …
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<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>
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