The latest note examines the impact of a social enterprise's attempts to shorten the supply chain between farmers and small retail stores in Bogota, an idea that was one of the winners of the SME ideas...
Increasing access to basic infrastructure services is critical to reducing poverty and enabling poor and marginalized people to participate in and benefit from economic development. Too often, however...
In 2010, eight new telecom projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in seven low and middle income countries. These projects involved investment commitments of US$4.2...
While the issue has been hotly debated, this debate has suffered from two main weaknesses. On the one hand, there has been a dearth of rigorous empirical analysis of what is happening on the ground. On...
Online platforms are changing the way we engage with the world. Face book links, eBay auctions, ePal chats, even second life avatars-these are all online platforms that connect people, ideas, products...
Online platforms are changing the way we engage with the world. Face book links, eBay auctions, ePal chats, even second life avatars-these are all online platforms that connect people, ideas, products...
Online platforms are changing the way we engage with the world. Face book links, eBay auctions, ePal chats, even second life avatars-these are all online platforms that connect people, ideas, products...
Online platforms are changing the way we engage with the world. Face book links, eBay auctions, ePal chats, even second life avatars-these are all online platforms that connect people, ideas, products...
The use of report cards in a HIV/AIDS prevention program in Cameroon appears to be a promising tool for galvanizing community interest, discussion and action. This paper includes the following content:...
Traditional medicine practice involves a complex combination of activities, order of knowledge, beliefs and customs to generate the desired effects for the diagnosis, prevention or elimination of imbalances...
Traditional medicine practice involves a complex combination of activities, order of knowledge, beliefs and customs to generate the desired effects for the diagnosis, prevention or elimination of imbalances...
Following the European model, many developing, and transitional economies have established councils, independent of other government branches to govern their judiciaries. Spain's experience illustrates...
Following the European model, many developing, and transitional economies have established councils, independent of other government branches to govern their judiciaries. Spain's experience illustrates...
The Gabon Urban Development Project is being conducted through a series of pilot projects in the poorest, most densely populated neighborhoods in three cities. Reducing poverty hinges on increasing the...
The author argues that since competition is more effective than regulation in promoting efficiency, separating the potentially competitive parts of the industry from the natural monopoly parts that must...