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  • Missing Information : Why Don’t More Firms Seek Out Business Advice? (English)

    Seeking out business advice, for example through classroom training or consulting, can be a profitable investment. Previous research has found that obtaining business advice through classroom training...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 176888 Document Date: September 30, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bruhn,Miriam,Piza,Caio

  • Growth and vulnerabilities in microfinance (English)

    This focus note begins by briefly telling the story of recent growth in the four countries leading into the credit delinquency crises. The second section describes the key contextual factors that affected...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 56627 Document Date: February 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Reille,Xavier

  • Growth and vulnerabilities in microfinance (Russian)

    This focus note begins by briefly telling the story of recent growth in the four countries leading into the credit delinquency crises. The second section describes the key contextual factors that affected...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 56627 Document Date: February 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Reille,Xavier

  • Growth and vulnerabilities in microfinance (Arabic)

    This focus note begins by briefly telling the story of recent growth in the four countries leading into the credit delinquency crises. The second section describes the key contextual factors that affected...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 56627 Document Date: February 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Reille,Xavier

  • Nurturing traditional knowledge systems for development (English)

    Traditional Knowledge systems are the essence of the social capital of the poor and the source of their survival strategies. Rooted in tradition, TK is also contemporary knowledge, defined by its inherently...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31256 Document Date: October 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Introducing a value added tax : lessons from Ghana (Chinese)

    In 1998 Ghana's government successfully introduced a value added tax (VAT). But this success followed a failed attempt in 1995, when the country's first VAT was repealed after just three and a half months...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 24847 Document Date: December 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chapman, Emma

  • Introducing a value added tax : lessons from Ghana (English)

    In 1998 Ghana's government successfully introduced a value added tax (VAT). But this success followed a failed attempt in 1995, when the country's first VAT was repealed after just three and a half months...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 24847 Document Date: December 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chapman, Emma

  • Lessons from power sector reform in England and Wales (English)

    The 1990 power reforms in England and Wales were designed to permit the introduction of competition at both the retail and the wholesale level. Generation was both vertically separated from transmission...

    Document Type: Viewpoint Report No.: 26829 Document Date: October 1, 1995 Disclosure Status: Author: Bacon,Robert W.