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Is REDD undermining FLEGT?

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With proper safeguards, FLEGT has the capacity to bring about real improvements in forest governance – but concerns have been raised that this could all be undermined by the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) schemes currently being developed by the UN and the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). This briefing looks at the case of Ghana and concludes that the Ghana experience should alert us to the dangers of rushing REDD processes.This more...

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D C on May 17, 2012

Implementing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness

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UNDP’s involvement in the Paris Declaration process is two-pronged: 1) to engage on development cooperation issues, specifically the quality of aid; and 2) to support developing countries’ implementation of the aid effectiveness commitments and to facilitate their participation in global fora. With the exception of using country systems where further progress is needed, UNDP is faring well overall in reaching the 2010 Paris Declaration targets on effective aid. Slow progress on UNDP’s use of more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 15, 2012

Using Credit to Grow Savings: Results from a Mobile Pilot in Kenya

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Can financial services be sold with minimum human contact? This report reviews Jipange KuSave (JKS), an innovative savings product delivered through the mobile channel in Kenya. The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and the Financial Sector Deepening Trust Kenya (FSD Kenya) provided a total of USD 540,000 to Mobile Ventures Kenya Limited (MVK) in November 2009 to enable MVK to pilot JKS. The report evaluates the hypothesis that financial services could be sold with little or no human more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

Fostering Innovative Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Policy Options

unece.org.unecedev.colo.iway.ch –

Emerging market economies of the region often lag behind their more developed counterparts in terms of the efficiency of commercialization of R&D outputs and the scope of innovation-based enterprises' activities. It is noted in the literature that the lack of private investment in research as well as insufficient industry-science links are the major obstacles to this type of entrepreneurship. At the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), we identify and examine good more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

Ethiopia, Nigeria get financial boost for clean energy from the Climate Investment Funds

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Ethiopia’s efforts to increase energy efficiency and diversify its hydro-dependent energy mix through renewable energy got a USD 50 million boost from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) committee meetings last week when Ethiopia’s investment plan under the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program for Low Income Countries (SREP) was endorsed in full by CIF committee members. The decision came during the week-long CIF committee meetings in Washington, D.C. from 30 April to 4 May.Ghana presented more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

Sources of Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria

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The paper contributes to the empirical research on the micro-determinants of income inequality in Southeast European transition countries. The analysis utilizes data from a representative survey of 3,300 Bulgarian households conducted in 2007 and quantifies income differentiation effects related to certain socio- demographic characteristics. Quantile regression analysis reveals positive net effects of the degree of urbanization and the number of employed in the household as well as negative more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe

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This report provides a European overview of the challenges and opportunities of urban adaptation to climate change and links them with these other initiatives that provide more detailed information on local climate change impacts, and good practice guidance. As such it facilitates the debate on European and national support for urban adaptation, feeds into the European Climate Adaptation Platform Climate‑ADAPT, and supports an effective participation of local governments in the development and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 16, 2012

Understanding negotiation in airtime sharing in low-income microenterprises

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Shared access to airtime is a prominent mode of connectivity access in the developing world. We seek to understand airtime sharing among low-income microenterprises in India (small, low-capital businesses, such as flower sellers and milkmen), that constitute 90% of the total enterprises in India. We introduce social negotiation as the foundation of airtime sharing. We highlight negotiation mechanisms in the microenterprise, showing how shared resources are used towards personal interests amidst more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

Enhacing the IMF’s focus on growth and poverty reduction in Low-income countries

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The report makes clear that the IMF is not, and should not be, a long-term development lender. However, it has committed to enhancing its focus on growth and poverty reduction through the PRGT, and donors have provided concessional funding to the IMF to support the PRGT on this basis: the facilities should therefore be judged on whether they are achieving this goal. The report also makes clear that it is analysing trends resulting from IMF-government agreements, not ascribing “responsibility” more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

Shaping the future of aid

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This paper outlines the joint UK NGO vision for the Fourth High Level Forumon Aid Effectiveness and provides an overview of the on-going efforts of UK NGOs to prove and improve their own effectiveness and transparency.

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Sonia Hossain on May 12, 2012

The Malaysian Microfinance System and a Comparison with the Grameen Bank (Bangladesh) and Bank Perkreditan Rakyat (BPR-Indonesia)

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This paper compares the lending systems of subsidized Malaysian MFIs’ with those of unsubsidized MFIs such as Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and People’s Bank (Bank Perkreditan Rakyat/BPR) in Indonesia. Malaysia has implemented microfinance programs since 1987 as a poverty eradication strategy. There are three large MFIs in Malaysia, namely Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM), Yayasan Usaha Maju (YUM) and The Economic Fund for National Entrepreneurs Group (TEKUN). Each MFI has its own lending systems and is more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

South Korea introduces fingerprint technology to prevent corruption

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PPS launched Korea On-line E-Procurement System (KONEPS) in September 2002. KONEPS became a world-class e-procurement system used by 44,000 public organisations and 220,000 suppliers. However, due to the nature of bidding conducted on-line, there were cases reported that bid brokers borrowed the registrants’ certificate and participated in the bid illegally to gain profit when the contract was awarded. Such illegal practices continuously occurred and raised concerns about the reliability of more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 15, 2012

Somaliland aid report

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The current direct implementation funding model, where donors channeled the aid through the international implementing institutions with the minimal consultation of the Somaliland government, which turned the development to supply-driven rather than demand driven. The minimal contribution of Somaliland to its development by only 6.7% of its budget, which equivalent to only 3.6% of the total 2009 development budget turned Somaliland to remain just as mere aid receiver, as if it is in more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

Do Social Transfers “Crowd-Out” Remittances: Evidence from Bosnia

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This paper presents the results of estimation of the model of interaction between social transfers and remittances. Compared to previous studies, this paper estimates non-monotonic “crowding out” effect by an innovative empirical model specification. The model is then estimated by the two-stage Heckman’s selection method, where the receipt of remittances is the first stage, and amount of remittances received second stage dependent variable. The findings suggest that social transfers crowd-in more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

Are Banks and Microfinance Institutions Natural Partners in Financial Inclusion?

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This paper explores how Banks and MFIs in partnership can achieve financial inclusion in the long run while working on the business correspondents (BC) model. In 2006, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) permitted banks to use services of third parties as BCs to increase its outreach beyond its branches.This paper identifies banks, BCs, agent network managers (ANMs), customer service points (CSPs) or agents and technology service providers (TSPs) as distinct players in this model. The BC channel more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

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