Volumes 21 - 30: Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development: Recent submissions
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Does Social Capital Matter?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1998)Summaries The role of social capital has come to the fore in recent development analysis in which the level of institutional capacity and consequent level o economic development depends on the amount of social capital ... -
Young Entrepreneurs in East?Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1998)Summaries This article arises from interviews in 1996 and 1997 with 550 under?30?year?old entrepreneurs in seven former communist countries, three in the Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine) ... -
Transition in kyrgyzstan:
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1998)Summaries This article attempts to move away from macrolevel analyses and descriptions of the process of transition. It thus not only explores the social effects of transition in Kyrgyzstan in three distinct local contexts, ... -
Electronic Sources of Information on Central and Eastern European Countries and the New Independent States (NIS) of the Ex?Soviet Union
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The Media and Transition in Macedonia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1998)Summaries In Macedonia, the media scene today, compared with five or six years ago, has a completely new structure. On the part of the print media private capital dominates, and on the part of broadcasting there are private ... -
Review Books Received
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Introduction and Overview
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Programme Impact Assessment in Micro?Finance: The Need for Analysis of Real Markets
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Impact assessment in micro?finance has focused on the impact of services on users and the ability of the organisation delivering those services to sustain its operations into the future. However, a focus on building ... -
Micro-Credit Programme Evaluation: A Critical Review
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Micro-credit programmes have emerged as an antipoverty instrument in many low-income countries. They target the poor, especially women, with financial services to help them become self?employed in rural non?farm ... -
Impact of Credit on the Relative Well?Being of Women: Evidence from the Grameen Bank
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary This study examines the impact of credit on women's relative well?being in Grameen Bank's credit programmes. Using a bargaining model of the household, as extended by Amartya Sen, well?being has been defined in ... -
Participatory Learning for Women's Empowerment in Micro?Finance Programmes: Negotiating Complexity, Conflict and Change
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Micro?finance programmes for women are currently promoted not only as a strategy for poverty alleviation but also for women's empowerment. However, the complexity of empowerment itself and interlinkages with policy ... -
Mis?Targeting by the Grameen Bank: A Possible Explanation
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary There has been an increased emphasis on the targeting efficiency of micro?credit programmes. In general, recent studies find a much higher incidence of mis?targeting (around 25?30 per cent) than previous studies ... -
Informal Credit Transactions of Micro?Credit Borrowers in Rural Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Through a detailed study of informal credit transactions in a village in northern Bangladesh, the research empirically establishes that increased access to credit from micro?finance institutions (MFIs) in Bangladesh ... -
Can Mis?Targeting be Justified?: Insights from BRAC's Micro?CreditProgramme
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary This article discusses the arguments for and against the inclusion of ‘non?target’ households in BRAC's Rural Development Program (RDP). Using data collected from Matlab Thana in Bangladesh, the article finds that ... -
Attaining Outreach with Sustainability: A Case Study of a Private Micro?Finance Institution in Indonesia
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary Financial and economic deregulation in Indonesia since 1983 has encouraged the growth of micro?finance institutions (MFIs). Combined with sustained economic growth, this has resulted in drastic reductions in ... -
Donors and Sustainability in the Provision of Financial Services in Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)summary The article discusses some of the issues surrounding sustainability in the provision of financial services by the Diocesan Development Services (DDS) in Nigeria. The article describes the history and growth of DDS ... -
Financial Sector Liberalisation: Should the Poor Applaud?
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/10/1998)Summary Increasingly micro?finance is being encouraged to reformulate its primary focus from explicit antipoverty work to concentrate instead on financial sustainability. Much of this approach is predicated on neoclassical ... -
The East Asian Crisis: A Global Problem Requiring Global Solutions
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Global Capital Market Volatility and the Developing Countries: Lessons from the East Asian Crisis
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1999)Summary The emerging global economy is characterised by the virtually free movement of capital, while labour is still essentially confined to the nation state. The East Asian crisis has revealed the extent to which ... -
East Asia Crisis Seminar: Summary of Discussion
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/01/1999)