Author: Vivien Foster
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: financier, sub, saharan, africa, infrastructure, role, bridges, china, growing, building
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2009-03-30
ISBN-10: 0821375547
ISBN-13: 9780821375549

In recent years, a number of emerging economies has begun to play a growing role in the finance of infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. Their combined resource flows are now comparable in scale to traditional Official Development Assistance from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries or to capital from private investors. These non-OECD financiers include China, India, and the Gulf States, with China the largest player by far.Despite the importance of Chinese infrastructure finance in Africa, relatively little is known about the overall value and destination of

Author: Hela Cheikhrouhou
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: housing, infrastructure, small, businesses, funds, pension, finance, latin, america, channeling, structured
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007
ISBN-10: 0821371398
ISBN-13: 9780821371398

'Structured Finance in Latin America' explores how structured finance mechanisms can channel pension savings to support projects in underserved sectors, deepen capital markets, and contribute to investment and economic growth.Private pension funds have been accumulating assets rapidly in the wake of pension system reforms in many Latin American countries. Strict investment regulations to protect workers' savings have limited their investment in highly creditworthy domestic securities, yet pension fund demand for new securities has outstripped issuance of eligible traditional corporate debt ins

Author: William Battaile
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: making, choices, effectiveness, development, review, annual
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 2002-05
ISBN-10: 0821351397
ISBN-13: 9780821351390

The "bottom line" for the World Bank is its development effectiveness. The independent Operations Evaluation Department (OED) tracks the Bank's development performance, analyzing the effectiveness of Bank projects, programs, and processes; draws lessons of operational experience; and provides advice to the Board based on evaluations at the project, country, sector, and thematic levels. Each year, evidence from these evaluations is marshaled to produce a summary report on the Bank's development effectiveness, centered around a particular development issue. The '2001 Annual Review of Development

Author: World Bank Group
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: financial, inclusion, report, development, global
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2013-11-11
ISBN-10: 0821399853
ISBN-13: 9780821399859

Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion. The interest reflects an increased recognition that financial inclusion can be a driver of economic growth and poverty alleviation, and that many individuals and firms are excluded unnecessarily from even basic financial services. About half of the world’s adult population– more than 2.5 billion people–have no bank acc

Author: The Council of Economic Advisers of the President
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: president, report, economic
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2010-02-12
ISBN-10: 1441413413
ISBN-13: 9781441413413

The Economic Report of the President for 2010 is written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting the Administration’s domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation’s economic progress with text and extensive data appendices. For more than sixty years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how Administrations have interpreted economic developments, the motivation for policy actions, and the results of those interventions. This year’s volume has attempted to stay tr

Author: George Reisma
Publisher: TJS Book
Keywords: economics, treatise, capitalism
Number of Pages: 1096
Published: 1996-11-01
ISBN-10: 0915463733
ISBN-13: 9780915463732

Literally encyclopedic -- almost the length of a volume of the Britannica in terms both of number of pages and content per page--Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics is the philosophically and intellectually strongest and most comprehensive book in the defense of laissez-faire capitalism that can be found anywhere in the world at the present time. It is state of the art in economic theory and political philosophy. The intelligent, open-minded reader who seeks to understand the economics and politics of the modern world (along with much of its closely related history and social and cultural phe