This paper reviews the current level and pattern of access to finance for India's rural poor and examines some of the key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among...
Despite the large size and depth of the Indian financial system, and thousands of bank branches across rural India, the poor in rural India still have very little access to formal finance. A recent World...
For Mozambique to achieve its ambitious poverty reduction goals, it must maintain an annual growth rate of 8 percent over the next seven years. While this is within the range of recent performance, sustaining...
It is often anecdotally observed that networks can facilitate exchange, but there are few empirical studies that explore the significance of such networks. In this paper the authors analyze the impact...
This study is an assessment of the findings from the Regional Program on Enterprise Development's (RPED) first round of firm-level surveys in Burundi, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. These...
The focus of the Africa region's new assistance strategy on achieving higher impact from economic reform program has created a need for better information about how adjustment programs are actually proceeding...
This paper focuses on the private learning mechanisms by which firms build up their technical capabilities and create competitive advantage. Specifically, the authors examine efforts inside the firm to...
This study addresses and challenges a number of common propositions underlying financial market interventions, in search of alternative avenues for policy reform and donor intervention in Ghana. The study...