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In favourable circumstances, ‘microfinance initiatives’ can enable poor people to build up security through savings and insurance, and obtain credit to cover times of hardship or to establish small businesses. […] View resource Briefing paper Update on the MAI 01/12/1998 1 documents 7 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance Overview This update provides information on recent developments on the draft Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and Oxfam GB’s position on it. Oxfam had fundamental concerns with the draft MAI relating to its scope, process, principles and provisions. Our analysis led us to conclude that the draft MAI was a seriously unbalanced agreement that would be […] View resource Briefing paper East Asian ‘Recovery’ Leaves the Poor Sinking 01/10/1998 1 documents 11 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance Financial crisis World Bank and IMF Overview The economic crisis in East Asia shows no sign of abating. Far from resolving the region’s problems, IMF ‘rescue’ measures have exacerbated their severity, contributing to an economic collapse which parallels in scale the Great Depression of 1929. Real wages have collapsed, remittances to poor rural areas have fallen, and access to basic services is […] View resource Briefing paper Debt Relief for Nicaragua: Breaking out of the poverty trap 01/10/1998 1 documents 34 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Overview Nicaragua is Latin America’s poorest country, with some of the worst indicators for human welfare. It also has the world’s highest level of per capita debt, at around US$1,300 per capita, and one of the highest ratios of debt to GDP. Even though Nicaragua consistently fails to service its debt in full, actual debt repayments […] View resource Journal article NGOs and advocacy: how well are the poor represented? 01/08/1998 12 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Development methods Finance Overview There is a widespread perception that Southern non-governmental organizations (NGOs) best represent the authentic voices of the Southern poor. This article challenges this perception, arguing that poor people in general, and children and women in particular, continue to be disenfranchised, while NGOs-both Northern and Southern-offer a poor imitation of their voices. It argues that what […] View resource Journal article Eurodad’s campaign on multilateral debt: the 1996 HIPC debt initiative and beyond 01/08/1998 12 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Finance World Bank and IMF Overview ‘Multilateral debt is not a widespread problem for Severely Indebted Low Income Countries’ wrote the World Bank in September 1994. Two years later, the International Financial Institutions-the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund-agreed to a proposal to bring the debt of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) to sustainable levels. While imperfect, the proposal went […] View resource Journal article Men’s violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes? 01/05/1998 10 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Finance Gender mainstreaming Gender-based violence Overview Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men’s violence against women in the home, women’s economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men’s violence against women. They can reduce women’s vulnerability to men’s violence by […] View resource Journal article Women’s empowerment and micro-finance programmes: strategies for increasing impact 01/05/1998 7 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Finance Gender mainstreaming Microfinance Overview The Small Enterprise Development Fund of the Department for International Development (DFID) of the British Government commissioned a literature review and held workshops, both co-ordinated by ActionAid UK, to assess the impact of micro-finance schemes on women’s empowerment. Three broad approaches to micro-finance for women are identified as well as the constraints affecting impact in […] View resource Briefing paper Debt Relief for Tanzania: An opportunity for a better future 01/04/1998 1 documents 28 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Debt Debt relief Overview Tanzania is one of the world’s poorest countries. Around half of the population lives below the poverty line, one in six children die before the age of five, and almost one-third of the population will not live until the age of forty. These human welfare indicators are the culmination of almost two decades of slow […] View resource Book Economic Growth with Equity: Lessons from East Asia 01/01/1998 1 documents 161 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Development methods Finance Overview Economic Growth with Equity looks at the lessons to be learned from the East Asian countries which managed to combine economic growth with equity. It examines the social policies which enabled the benefits of growth and prosperity to be widely shared, though not by all. There are many who have been excluded from the general […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 … Page 44 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know