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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2010

    Current international financing (primarily ODA) for environmental services in developing countries is very roughly estimated to be upwards of $21 billion annually (not including climate change financing), but additional resources on the order of tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars are needed. In 2009, environmental ODA was estimated at $18 billion with a few billion more delivered through philanthropic and market-based financing channels.

  2. Library Resource

    Combining Financial Instruments to Support Low-Carbon Development

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2010

    The world development report 2010 estimates that an additional $200 billion per year of climate-related financing is needed in developing countries between now and 2030 to keep global average temperature rise within 2 degrees Celsius. Developing countries face increased financing challenges over coming decades as they seek to pursue economic development along a lower emission trajectory.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    February, 2015

    The purpose of this paper is to contribute to theunderstanding and discussion of how the costs andbenefits of natural resource development are sharedacross society. This paper presents how IFC, as both aninvestor and a development organization, determineswhether benefits and costs are shared reasonably, and how this assessment influences IFC’s decision to invest ina particular natural resource project. the goal of the paper is to promotea broad, constructive dialogue across stakeholders—governments, investors, civil society, and others—around benefit sharing.

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Asia

    Resolving systemic banking and corporate
    distress is not easy. The large scale of the East Asian
    financial crisis has made the task even more daunting in
    Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand.
    Two years into the process, bank and corporate restructuring
    is still a work in progress. Governments should act to
    accelerate it. Besides adopting common policy prescriptions
    - improving financial regulation, corporate governance, and

  5. Library Resource
    February, 2014

    Russia and other countries in the
    commonwealth of independent states that have implemented
    voucher privatization programs have to account for the
    puzzling behavior of insiders manager-owners-who, in
    stripping assets from the firms they own, appear to be
    stealing from one pocket to fill the other. This article
    suggests that asset stripping and the absence of
    restructuring result from interactions between insiders and

  6. Library Resource
    February, 2014

    Many developing countries and countries
    with transitional economies are considering whether and how
    to regulate microfinance. These guiding principles are
    formulated for the regulation and supervision of
    microfinance. This document is divided into five sections.
    The first section of the paper discusses terminology and
    preliminary issues. The second section outlines areas of
    regulatory concern that do not call for

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Burundi

    The study on the sources of rural growth
    in Burundi results from a meticulous work carried out by
    eminent experts of the World Bank in response to a request
    of the Government of Burundi. It describes the global
    environment, which explains poverty aggravation and builds
    proposals to overcome most binding constraints to growth in
    Burundi. This study is an important contribution in the
    fight against poverty, as it identifies ways to resume

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    The private enterprise sector in Bosnia
    and Herzegovina (BiH) has been expanding steadily, and
    estimates are that it presently contributes close to 50
    percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The BiH private
    enterprise sector initially developed following the
    privatization program starting in 1999. Under that program,
    the majority of state owned enterprises (SOEs) that were
    privatized were done so using the voucher privatization

  9. Library Resource
    October, 2013
    Egypt

    A joint team from the International
    Monetary Fund's (IMF's) Monetary and Financial
    Systems Department (MFD) and the World Bank visited Egypt
    between May 6 and May 21, 2007 to update the assessment of
    the Egyptian Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) that
    had been conducted in June 2002 and completed in September
    2002. The work under the FSAP update aimed to assess
    progress in reforming the financial sector and strengthening

  10. Library Resource
    July, 2014
    Albania

    Albania has undertaken major reforms in
    its system of local government finance since 2000. What had
    been a system in which local functions were ambiguous and
    financing was largely provided through tightly controlled
    earmarked grants is now one in which functions are
    relatively clear and local governments have more autonomy
    over the allocation of funds. A new system of competitive
    grants for infrastructure investment has been introduced.

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