DEVELOPMENT BANK (development + bank)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Development Fund Replenishment

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 8 2010
Article first published online: 30 SEP 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (AfDB): Annual Meetings

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 5 2010
Article first published online: 8 JUL 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: New Investments

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 4 2010
Article first published online: 4 JUN 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Capacity Building Conference

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 3 2010
Article first published online: 4 MAY 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Agricultural Sector Strategy

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 2 2010
Article first published online: 1 APR 2010
First page of article [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Global Bond Issue Launched

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 1 2010
Article first published online: 8 MAR 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: West African Emerging Markets

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 9 2009
Article first published online: 2 NOV 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Triple A rating

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 7 2009
Article first published online: 27 AUG 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Counter-Cyclical Strategies

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 6 2009
Article first published online: 30 JUL 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Record Loan to Botswana

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 5 2009
Article first published online: 3 JUL 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Annual Outlook Report

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 4 2009
Article first published online: 4 JUN 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Falling Growth, Rising Unrest?

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 2 2009
Article first published online: 7 APR 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Liquidity Fund

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 1 2009
Article first published online: 9 MAR 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


Revealing the socioeconomic impact of small disasters in Colombia using the DesInventar database

DISASTERS, Issue 2 2010
Mabel C. Marulanda
Small disasters are usually the product of climate variability and climate change. Analysis of them illustrates that they increase difficulties for local development,frequently affecting the livelihoods of poor people and perpetuating their level of poverty and human insecurity,and entail challenges for a country's development. In contrast to extreme events, small disasters are often invisible at the national level and their effects are not considered as relevant from a macroeconomic standpoint. Nevertheless, their accumulated impact causes economic, environmental and social problems. This paper presents the results of an evaluation of the DesInventar database, developed in 1994 by the Network for Social Studies in Disaster Prevention in Latin America. In addition, it proposes a new version of the Local Disaster Index developed in 2005 within the framework of the Disaster Risk and Management Indicators Program for the Americas, with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank. [source]


FINANCE/MARKETS: African Development Bank: New Loans

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 7 2010
Article first published online: 1 SEP 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


African Development Bank (AfDB): New Loans

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 6 2010
Article first published online: 3 AUG 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


African Development Bank (AfDB)

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 12 2010
Article first published online: 9 FEB 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


African Development Bank: New Loans

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 11 2010
Article first published online: 18 DEC 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


African Development Bank: Loans and Grants

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 10 2009
Article first published online: 27 NOV 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


African Development Bank: Praise For G 20

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 3 2009
Article first published online: 1 MAY 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


East African Development Bank: New Director, New Challenges

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 2 2009
Article first published online: 7 APR 200
No abstract is available for this article. [source]


The impact of farm credit in Pakistan

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, Issue 3 2003
Shahidur R. Khandker
Agricultural credit; Rural financial institutions; Impact of credit on income and productivity; Cost-effectiveness of credit delivery system Abstract Both informal and formal loans matter in agriculture. However, formal lenders provide many more production loans than informal lenders, often at a cost (mostly loan default cost) higher than what they can recover. For example, the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP), providing about 90% of formal loans in rural areas, incurs high loan default costs. Yet, like other governments, the Government of Pakistan supports the formal scheme on the grounds that lending to agriculture is a high risk activity because of covariate risk. Hence, such policies are often based on a market failure argument. As farm credit schemes are subsidised, policy makers must know if these schemes are worth supporting. Using a recent large household survey data from rural Pakistan (Rural Financial Market Studies or RFMS), we have attempted to estimate the effectiveness of the ADBP as a credit delivery institution. A two-stage method that takes the endogeneity of borrowing into account is used to estimate credit impact. Results reveal that ADBP contributes to household welfare and that its impact is higher for smallholders than for large holders. Nevertheless, large holders receive the bulk of ADBP finance. The ADBP is, thus, not a cost-effective institution in delivering rural finance. Its cost-effectiveness can be improved by reducing its loan default cost and partially by targeting smallholders in agriculture where credit yields better results. [source]


The Los Angeles Community Development Bank: The Possible Pitfalls of Public-Private Partnerships

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS, Issue 2 2001
Julia Sass Rubin
In response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the federal government, city and county officials, commercial banks and community leaders established the nonprofit Los Angeles Community Development Bank (LACDB). This public-private partnership was a new development model, designed to spur economic growth in some of Los Angeles' most disadvantaged areas. The LACDB was capitalized with $435 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and ranks as the federal government's largest inner-city lending initiative. By January 2001, however, the bank had experienced unacceptably high losses and was seeking permission to continue operations, after reducing its staff by half and closing most of its offices. This article examines why this innovative public-private economic development partnership confronted such difficulties. Public-private partnerships continue to be an important vehicle for urban economic development. This case study provides a warning of potential pitfalls that can occur from such arrangements. [source]


Negotiating Globalization: Global Scripts and Intermediation in the Construction of Asian Insolvency Regimes

LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY, Issue 3 2006
Bruce G. Carruthers
This article draws from a larger research project on the globalization of bankruptcy law that includes (1) a time-series analysis of all bankruptcy reforms worldwide from 1973 to 1998; (2) participation observation, several hundred interviews and documentary analysis of international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), international professional associations (International Bar Association, International Federation of Insolvency Practitioners), and world governance organizations (OECD, U.N. Commission on International Trade Law); and (3) case studies of Indonesia, Korea, and China. The globalization of law is a negotiated process. Our research on international organizations and case studies of China, Indonesia, and South Korea indicates that negotiation of the global/local relationship varies by the vulnerability of a country to global forces. Nation-states vary (1) in their balance of power vis-à-vis global actors; and (2) in their social and cultural distance from the global. Yet even where the global/local gap is wide and the asymmetry of power is pronounced, local responses to global pressures are negotiated as much as imposed. Negotiating globalization relies on direct and mediated interactions by several types of intermediaries who translate global scripts into four kinds of outcomes. The impact of intermediaries in this process varies by the phase of the reform in which they participate. Finally, globalizing law proceeds through recursive cycles of lawmaking and law implementation. [source]


Conditionality, coercion and other forms of ,Power': international financial institutions in the Pacific

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & DEVELOPMENT, Issue 3 2002
Peter Larmour
Research on conditionality has cast doubt on its effectiveness. Nevertheless, international financial institutions have continued to apply policy conditions to loans to developing country governments. The article aims to contribute to the current debate about conditionality in two ways. Empirically, it introduces recent evidence from countries and institutions not included in earlier studies (the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Papua New Guinea, and the Asian Development Bank in the South Pacific). Conceptually, it introduces arguments from political science to extend our understanding of the power relationships involved. Some conditions have clearly been applied coercively, particularly on ,Green' issues. Donors have also controlled the agenda of negotiations. But more productive and disciplinary forms of power are shown to be at work in conditionality, as in other forms of aid. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Competition And Its Regulation: Key Issues

ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS, Issue 4 2002
P. Cook
This article examines the role of competition policy in developing countries. The leading international development agencies, such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, have proclaimed their support for private sector,led development as the best strategy for reducing poverty. The benefits of private sector development are dependent on ensuring competitive market conditions, which are often absent in developing countries. However, theoretical notions of competition and the ways in which it is perceived to work vary widely and have implications for the type of competition policy that is to be implemented. Competition laws are widespread in industrialized countries but are only just beginning to be introduced in developing countries. The article examines some of the implications of applying competition policy in developing countries when account is taken of different theoretical perspectives, and of the structural and institutional differences between industrialized and developing countries. [source]


From Urban to Rural: Lessons for Microfinance from Argentina

DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, Issue 3 2001
Mark Schreiner
The recent success of microfinance for the urban self-employed contrasts with decades of failure on the part of public development banks for small farmers. This article describes the ways in which rural microfinance organisations have tried to adapt the lessons of urban microfinance to manage the risks and control the costs of the supply of financial services in rural areas. It then asks whether the lessons of urban microfinance are likely to apply in the poorest rural areas of Argentina. The article concludes that microfinance is unlikely to improve access to small loans and small deposits for many of the rural poor in Argentina; distances are too great, farmers too specialised, and wages too high. Improved access depends not on targeting loans by government decree but on strengthening institutions that support financial markets. [source]


Multilateral development banks, transparency and corporate clients: ,public,private partnerships' and public access to information

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & DEVELOPMENT, Issue 3 2003
Paul J. Nelson
The multilateral development banks (MDB) recognise and promote transparency as a principle of good governance. Public release of information about policies and projects is a central aspect of this transparency, and the five MDBs studied here each adopted new policies during the 1990s to increase the accessibility of such information. The flow of information to local communities is important to the effectiveness of MDBs' social and environmental safeguards and to securing public support. But MDBs also embrace a second strategy, which sometimes conflicts with transparency: each MDB (or an affiliate) lends to private corporations as well as to member states and each bank modifies its information disclosure rules, giving corporate clients greater discretion than member governments. Environmental and social safeguards apply to corporate borrowers as well as to governments and there is a relatively high level of controversy over corporate projects' environmental and social impact. When subjected to a qualitative review of their disclosure standards, emphasising fullness of disclosure, accessibility of information, timeliness of information and availability of recourse, the disclosure policies of all five MDBs are clearly found to accommodate corporate confidentiality while compromising public demands for information. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]