An introduction to microfinance -- Microfinancial services and poor people -- Microfinance and poverty reduction -- Microfinance, gender, and social development -- Microfinance: innovations in product delivery -- Microinsurance -- Regulating and supervising microfinance institutions -- Impact...

Privatisation has been advocated as the predominant way to solve the problems facing ailing public enterprises in developing countries. Despite this, the policy remains controversial. The available empirical evidence on the operational and financial performance of enterprises after privatisation...

COOK P. and KIRKPATRICK C. (1997) Globalization, regionalization and third world development, Reg. Studies 31, 55-66. Recent decades have seen a strengthening of cross-border economic relationships and an increasing integration of the world economy. The aim of this paper is to analyse the...

Little success has been achieved in financing assistant programmes for contractors in developing countries. This paper focuses on the experience of the Bank for Housing and Construction (BHC) of Ghana. Factors accountable for underachievement of its programme include: contractor's lack of...