NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DEVALUATION CRISES AND THE MACROECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF POSTPONED ADJUSTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Sebastian Edwards Peter Montiel Working Paper No 66 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 February 1989 A first version of this paper was written while Edwards was a visiting scholar in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. We have benefited from discussions with Saul Lizondo.
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of Statistics September 2007 This paper has been prepared by the Development Data Group of the World Bank and the PARIS21 Secretariat at the request of the PARIS21 Steering Committee. It is part of the follow-up to the Third International Roundtable on Managing for Development Results in Hanoi in February 2007 and the meeting on scaling up support for statistics held during the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings in Washington in April 2007. Scaling-up Support to Statistics Executive summary
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European Scientific Journal January 2013 edition vol.9, No.1 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 AGRICULTURE FINANCING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA Obansa S. A. J. Departments of Economics University of Abuja I. M. Maduekwe Departments of Economics and Agric. Economics Department University of Abuja Abstract The importance of agricultural surplus for the structural transformation accompanying economic growth is often stressed by development economists. This lead to the question:
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Technology Development Group, UK Pamela Hartigan, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Switzerland Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives, India Ehsan Masood, LEAD International, UK Penelope Mawson, LEAD International, UK Nick Moon, ApproTEC, Kenya Adil Najam, Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA Julia Novy-Hildesley, Lemelson Foundation, USA Anna Richell, Design Council, UK Ammon Salter, Imperial College London, UK Eugenio de Motta Singer, ERM, Brazil Rory Stear, Freeplay Energy Corp., UK
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KCA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF COMMERCE CMS 200- INSURANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT INSTRUCTORS: Joshua Nyangidi COURSE OBJECTIVE ►To introduce students to the concepts of risk and insurance. ►To equip students with the understanding of risk management and practice of insurance. 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Concept of risk 1.2 Types of risks 1.3 Response to risk 1.4 Perils and Hazards 2: RISK MANAGEMENT 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Risk Management 2.2 Nature of Risk Management 2.3 Principles of Risk Management
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www.uncsd2012.org RIO+20 Issues Briefs Produced by the UNCSD Secretariat and UNCTAD March 2011 No. 1 Trade and Green Economy 1. Introduction The potential trade risks of a transition to a green economy — protectionism, conditionality, subsidies — are issues of long standing and not unique to the green economy. The urgency of the global challenges which a green economy transformation is intended to address, and the scale of the actions being taken by many countries to build green economies
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London (ZSL), the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN) and the Provincial Governor hosted a multi-‐stakeholder workshop in Kisangani, central Democratic Republic of Congo, where the participants reviewed the okapi’s status, carried out an okapi Red List assessment and drafted the first-‐ever
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|MANAGING PUBLIC | | |SECTOR RECORDS | | | |A Training Programme | |
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Mobile Payments: Problem or Solution? Implications for financial inclusion Mike George, Linda Lennard and Kate Scribbins Foundation Further information This report and a summary version are available as a pdf from www.friendsprovidentfoundation.org. The summary is also available in print from Friends Provident Foundation, Pixham End, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1QA (foundation.enquiries@friendsprovident.co.uk and www.friendsprovidentfoundation.org). Published 2013 by Friends Provident Foundation Pixham
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Many people in developing countries neither have their own bank accounts nor are they able to take out loans, transfer money or insure their families against risks such as illness, accident or death. In most cases, access to these financial services that are so central to sustainable development are either denied or made very difficult. Consequently, people frequently have no choice but to resort to local moneylenders who charge usurious rates
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