Private Sector Development In Low Income Countries
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Private Sector Development in Low-income Countries by Anonim Pdf
Annotation Assesses the progress of private sector development in low-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, from 1987 to the present. The book identifies causes of uneven performance and outlines the main elements of a strategy--led by the private sector-- for accelerated and shared growth to reduce poverty. Also available in French: (ISBN 0-8213-3550-2) Stock No. 13550.
The Private Sector in Development by Michael U. Klein,Bita Hadjimichael Pdf
The publication explores the role of the private sector in economic development and the challenges involved in the design of public policies which promote an appropriate balance between competition and regulation. Chapters discuss the following topics: the private sector and poverty reduction, the investment climate, public intervention to promote supply response, private participation and markets for basic services, pro-poor policy design, sustainability and reform aspects.
Private Sector Development in an Emerging World by Diederik Boer,Harald Sander,Katharina Friz,Antonella Anastasi Pdf
This book explores the interactions between private sector development, public policies and societal institutions with a strong view on contributing to sustainable and inclusive development in emerging countries. The private sector is often praised as an engine of economic growth. This belief has led to significant efforts to promote private sector development in emerging countries. Development agencies prioritize private sector development and national governments are following suit, resulting in often huge incentives to stimulate and attract private investment. However, private sector development is not a panacea for sustainable and inclusive development as the past decades have clearly shown. Economic growth, societal development and environmental sustainability are often in a sharp conflict; and more often than not economic growth has failed to improve the lives of all citizens. This book examines the role the state and the private sector should play to benefit from the dynamics of business development, while ensuring that these benefits are shared broadly without jeopardizing sustainability. The views presented differ in detail, but the analyses and case studies presented share common themes, namely that the relative roles of state and private sector of should be balanced and that this particular balance should be based on the context of each country in order to make the private-public sector interaction work for all people.
Author : Gary S. Fields,Guy Pierre Pfeffermann Publisher : World Bank Publications Page : 324 pages File Size : 47,9 Mb Release : 2003-10-30 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 0821354043
Pathways Out of Poverty by Gary S. Fields,Guy Pierre Pfeffermann Pdf
How private firms contribute to economic mobility and poverty reduction and what governments can do to enhance their contributions is the theme of this book. The positive role (often underemphasized) the private sector plays in economic development is looked at. Also the labour market and how various mechanisms in the economy interact to affect conditions for people as workers and as consumers. The links among the business environment, private sector development, economic growth, poverty reduction and economic mobility are also examined.
Author : Canadian International Development Agency Publisher : Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations Page : 72 pages File Size : 40,5 Mb Release : 2003 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : UIUC:30112069328174
Expanding Opportunities Through Private Sector Development by Canadian International Development Agency Pdf
The objective of CIDA's private sector development (PSD) policy os to create more, better, and decent jobs and sustainable livelihoods by helping markets to function well and by stimulating the growth of the local private sector in developing countries and countries in transition.
Business for Development Fostering the Private Sector by OECD Pdf
This book details the activities of the private sector in developing and emerging economies and demonstrates how these activities are inter-related with government policies.
The Role of Government and the Private Sector in Fighting Poverty by George Psacharopoulos,Xuan Nguyen Nguyen Pdf
Annotation World Bank Technical Paper No. 346. Although private sector expansion may relieve governments from certain tasks, it also imposes new responsibilities. This paper examines the relative roles of the private and public sectors in the implementation of a two-track strategy for poverty reduction. The first track requires sustained broad-based economic growth that makes efficient use of labor, the main asset owned by the poor. The second promotes investment in people or human resources by ensuring basic social services that are accessible to the poor. Individual chapters examine social safety nets and issues in education, health, population, and nutrition.
Private Participation in Infrastructure in Developing Countries by Clive Harris Pdf
Governments have long recognized the vital role that modern infrastructure services play in economic growth and poverty alleviation. For much of the post-Second World War period, most governments entrusted delivery of these services to state-owned monopolies. But in many developing countries, the results were disappointing. Public sector monopolies were plagued by inefficiency. Many were strapped for resources because governments succumbed to populist pressures to hold prices below costs. Fiscal pressures, and the success of the pioneers of the privatization of infrastructure services, provided governments with a new paradigm. Many governments sought to involve the private sector in the provision and financing of infrastructure services. The shift to the private provision that occurred during the 1990s was much more rapid and widespread than had been anticipated at the start of the decade. By 2001, developing countries had seen over $755 billion of investment flows in nearly 2500 infrastructure projects. However, these flows peaked in 1997, and have fallen more or less steadily ever since. These declines have been accompanied by high profile cancellations or renegotiations of some projects, a reduction in investor appetite for these activities and, in some parts of the world, a shift in public opinion against the private provision of infrastructure services. The current sense of disillusionment stands in stark contrast to what should in retrospect be surprise at the spectacular growth of private infrastructure during the 1990s.
Private-Sector Development in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Violent Countries by Sadika Hameed,Kathryn Mixon Pdf
The CSIS Working Group on Private-Sector Development in Fragile, Conflict-Affected, and Violent States identifies tools available to the international business community and the U.S. government to assist these countries, as well as the gaps in needed resources. Participants examined cases from Afghanistan, Iraq, Burma, and Liberia to glean examples of successes and failures in private-sector development, with the goal of identifying potential roles for host governments and the international private sector. This report presents the results of those discussions.
Trends and Challenges in Infrastructure Investment in Low-Income Developing Countries by Daniel Gurara,Mr.Vladimir Klyuev,MissNkunde Mwase,Andrea Presbitero,Xin Cindy Xu,Mr.Geoffrey J Bannister Pdf
This paper examines trends in infrastructure investment and its financing in low-income developing countries (LIDCs). Following an acceleration of public investment over the last 15 years, the stock of infrastructure assets increased in LIDCs, even though large gaps remain compared to emerging markets. Infrastructure in LIDCs is largely provided by the public sector; private participation is mostly channeled through Public-Private Partnerships. Grants and concessional loans are an essential source of infrastructure funding in LIDCs, while the complementary role of bank lending is still limited to a few countries. Bridging infrastructure gaps would require a broad set of actions to improve the efficiency of public spending, mobilize domestic resources and support from development partners, and crowd in the private sector.
Trends in Private Sector Development in World Bank Education Projects by Shobhana Sosale Pdf
The principle underlying trends in Bank education projects is that strengthening the private sector's role in noncompulsory education over time will release public resources for the compulsory (primary) level. The public and private sectors have complementary roles to play.
Development Centre Studies Meeting the Challenge of Private Sector Development Evidence from the Mekong Sub-region by Bonaglia Federico Pdf
Explores how governments can help firms in developing countries better seize the opportunities created by globalisation and contribute to improving employment opportunities and poverty reduction.
Author : Gary S. Fields,Guy Pierre Pfeffermann Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media Page : 328 pages File Size : 47,5 Mb Release : 2003-09-30 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 1402074123
Pathways Out of Poverty by Gary S. Fields,Guy Pierre Pfeffermann Pdf
Identifies the ways in which private firms and farms contribute to economic mobility and poverty reduction and what governments can do to enhance this contribution.
External Finance for Private Sector Development by M. Odedokun Pdf
Foreign finance for private sector development (PSD) has become popular with the donor community and in multilateral development policy fora, seen as an antidote for recipient economies' aid dependency and a way of accomplishing growth, poverty reduction and empowerment. This book analyzes the pattern of foreign finance for PSD and examines multilateral and bilateral donors' practices in PSD financing, giving special attention to microfinance and microenterprises. It also models and explains private capital flows from developed to developing countries and reverse flows in the form of capital flight.
