ICT at the top of the agenda of the Kyushu-Okinawa Summit. Carlos Braga on the DOT Force. Bridging the rural-urban digital divide. More "stories".... Building the country gateways. Projects at a glance:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24767Date: September 30, 2000Author:
Scaramuzzi, Elena [editor]
On January 12, 2000 Micro Enterprise Bank (MEB) Kosovo received a banking license from the BPK and became the first licensed bank in the post-conflict Kosovo. Its objective is to provide banking services...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21009Date: September 30, 2000
Micro Enterprise Bank, Bosnia and Herzegovina (MEB) was set up in November 1997. It is working to alleviate financial constraints faced by micro and small enterprises by providing financial services on...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21008Date: September 30, 2000
Although one of its region's best-performing economies, tiny Samoa had no locally owned private commercial banks until 1995. Since then the National Bank of Samoa (NBS) has become a critical player in...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21004Date: September 30, 2000
This monthly report updates the activities of the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET), established by the World Bank's Board of Governors following the December 1999 Tokyo Donors' Meeting. The contents include:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39257Date: September 6, 2000
Private infrastructure: private activity fell by 30 percent in 1999; by Ada Karina Izaguirre and Geetha Rao. Private infrastructure: are the trends in low-income countries different? ; by Melissa Houskamp...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 30634Date: September 1, 2000Author:
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre ;
Rao,Geetha ;
Baker, Bill ;
Tremolet,Sophie Cecile Marie ;
Van Den Berg,Caroline ;
Powell,Stephen ;
Starks, Mary ;
Lovei,Laszlo ;
Gurenko,Eugene Nikolay ;
Hany, Michael ;
O'Keefe,Philip B. ;
Shkaratan,Maria ;
Trujillo Castellano,Lourdes ;
Nombela,Gustavo ;
Foxley,Juan ;
Mardones, Jose Luis
This is the first issue of a bi-monthly economic monitoring report on Yemen. The bi-monthly report consists of four sections. The first section highlights key political developments and summarizes major...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 33552Date: September 1, 2000
This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the West Bank and Gaza office. This issue features: Building blocks for the future. The road to sustainable Palestinian development is still unclear. To go...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24922Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Sbeih, Ma'moon
For developing countries, investment in food safety institutions and their capacity can play an important role in improving living standards through advances in domestic public health, agricultural production,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23962Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Theiler,Susan Scurlock ;
Simeon,Michel ;
Jaffee,Steven M. ;
de Haan, Cees ;
Beckerman,Seth R.
In Pakistan, a number of multilateral and bilateral External Support Agencies (ESAs) have contributed to developing the social and infrastructure sectors. Today, given the pace of urbanization, and the...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 24471Date: August 31, 2000
This report updates the activities of the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET), established by the World Bank's Board of Governors following the December 1999 Tokyo Donors' Meeting. It gives a financial status...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39248Date: August 7, 2000
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: World Bank commits $500m to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa; letter from the Vice President, by Julius Wamey; United Nations (UN) social summiteers...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57014Date: August 1, 2000Author:
Floyd,Thomas Jerry ;
Petruzzelli,Joyce C. ;
Wamey,Julius Mberiley
The World Bank's Rural Development Family invited guests to explore new ideas for the Bank's work with its clients each year during Rural Week. This year's event focused on rural poverty in the context...
The Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Department is taking a fresh, in-depth look at the SME sector in selected countries around the world through detailed assessments of the business environment, key...
The World Bank Group has long assisted small and medium enterprises (SMEs), providing more than $8.8 billion of financing and technical assistance over the last three decades. This work is now taking on...
World Bank's new approach helps business in transition economies; by Lars Jeurling. Are foreign investors and multinationals engaging in corrupt practices in transition economies? by Joel Hellman, Geraint...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 20807Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Hischler, Richar [editor] ;
Jeurling,Lars A. ;
Hellman,Joel ;
Jones,Geraint Paul ;
Kaufmann,Daniel ;
Caves, Richard E. ;
Dowell, Glen ;
Hart, Stuart ;
Yeung, Bernard ;
Alcacer, Juan ;
Shen,Xiaofang ;
Giszpenc,Noemi Lea ;
Squire,Lyn ;
Shleifer,Andrei ;
Treisman,Daniel ;
Bruszt, Laszlo ;
Laszlo,Csaba ;
Sutela, Pekka ;
Berglof,John Erik Anshelm ;
Friebel,Guido ;
Guriev,Sergei M. ;
Yudaeva,Ksenia ;
Kozlov,Konstantin ;
Melentieva, N. ;
Ponomareva,Natalia Antonovna ;
Easterly,William R. ;
Olson, Mancur
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a central role in developing countries, socially as well as economically. Lasting private sector development depends on them. Yet they have a hard time, struggling...
There is an enormous need for creative new approaches to assisting small businesses in developing countries. So the World Bank Group has launched a new program to develop more and better ways to support...
Through a series of specialized small and medium enterprise (SME) facilities around the world, IFC and its partners provide local entrepreneurs with technical assistance needed to build commercially viable...
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