Latest articles Mobile Banking - An African Perspective Written by Victor van Reijswoud. March 2007. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Information for Development Program (InfoDev) have released a report on the status, opportunities and challenges of Mobile Banking in the Developing World. The report Mobile Banking: Knowledge map and Possible donor support strategies was released in July 2006. Together with Alex Weir we explore possibilities and hindrances for implementation of this promising service in Africa. ... Read More ... How Micro Loans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy ITworld.com 2/20/2007 David Geer recently spoke with Nicholas P. Sullivan, author of You Can Hear Me Now: How Micro Loans and Cell Phones are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy. Following is an edited transcript of that conversation. ... Read More ... Rethinking Telecenters: Knowledge Demands, Marginal Markets, Microbanks, and Remittance Flows By Scott S. Robinson. The international telecenter movement is barely under way in Latin America (see www.tele-centros.org). Public schools languish without connectivity, and social services have been curtailed across the board. At the same time, the let's-get-everybody-connected slogans, such as those that appeared in last April's Time Latin American edition-confuse public opinion, and costly, high-profile, difficult-to-replicate pilot programs may be polarizing the development ... Read More ... Hometown Associations and their Present and Future Partnerships New Development Opportunities? Manuel Orozco, Inter-American Dialogue. Report commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Washington, DC. September 2003. This report is an assessment of the development capacity of HTAs and the effectiveness of matching grants. Among the findings in this study are that hometown associations are small philanthropic organizations that generally provide assistance to their communities of origin and often participate in collaborative ... Read More ... Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth IMF Working Paper. Research Department. Prepared by Paola Giuliano and Marta Ruiz-Arranz. December 2005. There has been little systematic empirical study on the relationship between remittances and growth. This paper attempts to examine this relationship. Using a newly constructed crosscountry of data series for remittances covering a large sample of developing countries, we relate the interaction between remittances and financial development and its impact on growth. We analyze how a co... Read More ... Username Password Remember me Lost Password? No account yet? Register

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