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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh has recorded impressive
    economic and social gains since the 1990s. Recent growth has
    been at levels close to six percent. The country has doubled
    per capita growth and taken large strides toward reaching
    many Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ahead of many
    comparable countries. Attaining the MDGs calls for
    accelerating economic growth to six-seven percent a year.
    Accordingly, Bangladesh's Poverty Reduction Strategy

  2. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Global

    In this issue: dollar a day revisited;
    focus: strategies for developing countries; farm policy in
    developing countries: what next? Land in transition: reform
    and poverty in rural Vietnam; unpredictable aid;
    microfinance meets the market; and development impact of the
    war on drugs.

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    This paper compares and contrasts the
    performance of rural and urban manufacturing firms in
    Ethiopia to assess the impact of market integration and the
    investment climate on firm performance. Rural firms are
    shown to operate in isolated markets, have poor access to
    infrastructure and a substantial degree of market power,
    whereas urban firms operate in better integrated and more
    competitive markets, where they have much better access to

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Mexico

    This paper uses two recently completed
    surveys of individual entrepreneurs (farmers and
    microentrepreneurs) and registered enterprises (agricultural
    and nonagricultural) operating in Mexico s rural sector to
    provide new evidence about the factors influencing the
    incidence of credit constraints and investment behavior. To
    measure the incidence of credit constraints, the authors use
    self-reported information on whether economic agents have a

  5. Library Resource
    July, 2014

    This report shows that some investors
    still perceive Aceh as a risky place to do business, despite
    being relatively peaceful for almost four years. Security
    incidents, relatively common in post-conflict environments,
    deter businesses and individuals from investing in Aceh,
    robbing the economy of necessary capital and innovation.
    Other consequences of the conflict, including forms of
    illegal taxation, also hurt investment. The Government of

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Kenya

    This assessment of poverty and
    inequality comes at an important juncture for Kenya. The
    December 2007 elections and subsequent pronouncements of the
    newly formed Grand Coalition have underlined the salience of
    these issues to ordinary Kenyans, and for policy makers. The
    violence in early 2008 highlighted the importance of
    addressing poverty and inequality as major goals in their
    own right, but also for instrumental reasons, as major goals

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Thailand

    This paper evaluates the impact of the
    Thailand Village and Urban Revolving Fund on household
    expenditure, income, and assets. The revolving fund was
    launched in 2001 when the Government of Thailand promised to
    provide a million baht (about $22,500) to every village and
    urban community in Thailand as working capital for
    locally-run rotating credit associations. The money about
    $2 billion in total was quickly disbursed to locally-run

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Doing Business 2007: How to reform is
    the fourth in a series of annual reports investigating the
    regulations that enhance business activity and those that
    constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative
    indicators on business regulations and the protection of
    property rights that can be compared across 175
    economies-from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe-and over time. This
    publication points out how regulations affecting 10 areas of

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Afghanistan

    This report is about how to
    progressively reduce over time Afghanistan's dependence
    on opium - currently the country's leading economic
    activity - by development initiatives and shifting economic
    incentives toward sustainable legal livelihoods.
    Specifically, the report identifies additional investments
    and policy and institutional measures to support development
    responses that can counterbalance the economic advantages of

  10. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Uganda

    The goal of the Investment Climate
    Assessment (ICA) of Uganda is to evaluate the investment
    climate in Uganda in all its operational dimensions and to
    promote policies to strengthen the private sector and
    encourage broad-based economic growth. Sustained
    improvements in living standards depend on broad-based
    growth. Growth will only occur, however, if firms improve
    their productivity by investing in human and physical

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