Micro Finance services have existed for the past three decades in the developing nations. It has been implemented as the complementary to the formal financial infrastructure. The major objective is to provide the financial services to the poverty section that has been denied by the commercial...

One-quarter of the world's school-age children live in East Asia and Pacific. During the past 50 years, some economies in the region have successfully transformed themselves by investing in the continuous upgrading of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of their workforce. Through policy...

This book is the result of a joint forum on 'innovation for development' held by the World Bank and the China-based Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Center (AFDC) in Shanghai in September 2006. The book examines the relationship between innovation, competitiveness, and economic growth; the...