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Solutions to Increase Access to Finance for Women-Owned Businesses in the Middle East and North Africa

Solutions to Increase Access to Finance for Women-Owned Businesses in the Middle East and North Africa

vitalvoices.org –

A new Vital Voices report finds that women business owners in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have a strong appetite for expansion and are poised to contribute to economic growth, but require greater access to capital to grow their businesses.

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 9, 2013

How a Queen and a Scandal are Creating Financial Inclusion Pathways

1.35 billion—that is the number of women excluded from any form of basic financial services around the world By Zia Morales, FPD and Sona Panajyan, IFC Advisory Services May 8, 2013—How secure would you feel if you had to stow your life savings under a mattress? Or if the only way you could send money back to your family was through a friend, or a bus driver you barely know? And how frustrated would you be if you ran a business with great potential to expand and generate jobs, but more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 9, 2013

Women's Finance Hub, new initiative launched by IFC

Acknowledging the role of business women in development and the tough challenges they face to succeed, a recent gathering of development practitioners and governments launched an initiative to support women entrepreneurs, particularly in developing countries.

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 9, 2013

Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation

Breaking the Binary: Policy Guide to Scaling Social Innovation

schwabfound.org –

This publication is intended to add a perspective to the global conversation already under way about how we move beyond binary choices in crafting responses to social, economic, and environmental challenges. Fundamentally, it is about leveraging private enterprise and capital for public benefit. We refer to this as social innovation. So what role can and should government play to catalyse social innovation? The first section of this report attempts to answer that question, articulating a more...

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D C on May 9, 2013

Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy: The Framework, Methodology, and Results of the International Comparison Program

Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy: The Framework, Methodology, and Results of the International Comparison Program

openknowledge.worldbank.org –

This book is the most comprehensive accounting ever presented by the International Comparison Program (ICP) of the theory and methods underlying the estimation of purchasing power parities (PPPs). PPPs reveal the relative sizes of economies by converting their gross domestic products and related measurements into a common currency, thereby enabling comparisons based on economic and statistical theory. By disclosing the theory, concepts, and methods underlying the estimates, this book increases more...

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D C on May 9, 2013

Foreign Aid in Congress: Five Contradictions

Foreign Aid in Congress: Five Contradictions

Five contradictions come up anytime foreign aid is discussed in the U.S. Congress and the latest budget hearing was no exception. Foreign aid must support national security, but don't give it to anyone who doesn't like Cut foreign aid spending, but not on x.You are responsible, but who is in charge?Brand it, damn it.85 percent of constituents want to cut foreign aid; 15 percent approve of Congress. 4/29/13, Sarah Jane Staats Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Blog

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John Daly on May 8, 2013

Knowledge repositories – building blocks for learning

elearning-africa.com –

A knowledge repository is an online database that organises, displays and categorises information. It can be used to provide support and management for many services, including encouraging open access to scholarly research, preserving digital materials for the long term and showcasing academic research. But whilst repositories are becoming increasingly commonplace in Africa and around the world as houses of shared institutional memory, information on and experience of how best to implement more...

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Grégory Vespasien on May 8, 2013

ELLA BRIEF: Managing Conflict Through Consultation: Latin America’s Experience

ella.practicalaction.org –

Experience from Latin America shows how community consultation can be an important strategy used to manage conflict in Extractive Industries activities. This Brief characterises and analyses the different types of local consultation seen in the region, focusing on the diverse actors that lead the processes and providing illustrative examples of each. It also describes the main factors that made consultations more widespread in the region and that have improved their effectiveness. more...

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Mark Turner on May 7, 2013

Integrating Women into Value Chains: Lessons From Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Ghana

Integrating Women into Value Chains: Lessons From Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Ghana

microlinks.kdid.org –

Effective value chain programming requires an understanding of how people respond to different kinds of incentives in value chains and how gender affects this response. Gendered patterns of behavior influence men and women’s knowledge of, ability, and incentives to participate in value chains and to upgrade in response to changing market conditions and new market opportunities. Promoting value chain development that is inclusive of and benefits both men and women relies on understanding these more...

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SME Finance Forum to SME Finance Forum on May 7, 2013

From Marginalisation to Empowerment

From Marginalisation to Empowerment

actionaid.org –

The potential of land rights to contribute to gender equality – observations from Guatemala, India and Sierra Leone. For many years, activists have campaigned for women’s rights to access, control, and, where context allows, own land. This is in recognition of the fact that land is important not only for growing food or as a place to build a home. Land is also a resource that can be used to generate other forms of livelihoods, a place to belong to, and an identity. This is true for both women more...

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D C on May 7, 2013

Laws of Attrition: Crackdown on Russia’s Civil Society after Putin’s Return to the Presidency

Laws of Attrition: Crackdown on Russia’s Civil Society after Putin’s Return to the Presidency

This 78-page report describes some of the changes since Putin returned to the presidency in May 2012. The authorities have introduced a series of restrictive laws, begun a nationwide campaign of invasive inspections of nongovernmental organizations, harassed, intimidated, and in a number of cases imprisoned political activists, and sought to cast government critics as clandestine enemies. The report analyzes the new laws, including the so-called “foreign agents” law, the treason law, and the more...

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D C on May 7, 2013

Acting Globally, Thinking Globally: Working at the global scale

Acting Globally, Thinking Globally: Working at the global scale

hausercenter.org –

Identifying and making decisions of global scope and significance is challenging for two related reasons. Compared with a national board, the issues become more abstract and more complex at a global level. Both these challenges take us beyond our comfort zone and we have to work at making these shifts. Getting clear about what the International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) wants to become, getting a view of the whole global system, simplifying it well, and connecting it to reality on more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Introducing New Studies

Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Introducing New Studies

mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de –

We introduce new studies that argue in favour of: (i) according a central role to governance and regulation as potential determinants of innovation; and (ii) analysing the effects of governance and regulation on innovation in conjunction with the effects of the market structure. These studies were presented at an international conference at the University of Greenwich in September 2011 and will be published as an edited book titled Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Theory and Evidence on more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Violence against women and Post MDG Framework

Violence against women and Post MDG Framework

There should be a clear indicator or target on reducing violence against women and girls. In addition to being a violation of rights, violence against women and girls significantly undermines progress towards all the development goals, making them impossible to achieve.

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D C on May 6, 2013

Citizen voice and state accountability: Towards theories of change that embrace contextual dynamics

Citizen voice and state accountability: Towards theories of change that embrace contextual dynamics

The development industry is increasingly pushing practitioners to achieve results, and to do better in demonstrating what works, what does not, and explaining why. There is a growing interest in going beyond the measurement of results to being able to understand the basis for success or failure. Consequently, the development of explicit theories of change (ToCs) is starting to be viewed as central to this process, as a key part of what constitutes ‘rigour’ in impact evaluations. Citizen voice more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

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