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What factors affect child welfare? How can policy improve child welfare? In developing countries, there has been relatively little empirical work on the analysis and measurement of child poverty. Further, poverty has many dimensions, including mortality, morbidity, hunger, illiteracy, lack of fixed housing and lack of resources, and cannot be assessed with a single measurement method. Based on original research in Africa and South America, and using a multidimensional poverty indicator approach, this book identifies the existence of inequalities in child welfare, analyzes their sources, and evaluates the impacts of policy responses to those inequalities. Topics considered include monetary poverty, asset poverty, nutrition, mortality, access to education and school attendance, child labor and access to health services. The book's findings demonstrate that while current government programs offering financial assistance, supplementary food, and free or subsidized education and health care have a positive impact on child welfare, these outcomes can still improve, and proposes policy prescriptions towards this end. The book will be of use to poverty and policy researchers, professionals in international development, and graduate students interested in poverty and inequality.

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This book presents effective strategies for developing countries to leverage their public sector demand for manufactured imports to promote industrialization, trade, and technology transfer.  Technology transfer and its absorption is considered one of the most crucial and complicated challenges for developing countries, which are characterized by insufficient infrastructure, low technological intensity of the domestic capital stock, and high levels of manufactured imports.  Which strategies and policy tools can governments employ to link demand with technology transfer, thereby enhancing absorption capacity and development in emerging economies? This book is part of a broader project launched by PGlobal Global Advisory and Training Services Ltd., in cooperation with Istanbul Commerce University (Ä°TUCU) and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBÄ°TAK).  The contributors to this book are policymakers, academicians, and experts who are working together to identify problems and develop policy recommendations for public procurement with respect to economic development.  The book includes theoretical, empirical, and case study analyses of technology transfer mechanisms, public procurement policies, and countertrade and offset strategies.  The lessons learned from these chapters will be of interest to both academics and policymakers concerned with technology transfer, industrial policy, and economic development.

Public expenditure --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- technologiebeleid --- economische politiek --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- Developing countries

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Is structured finance dead? Many have asked this question after the financial crisis. Or is structured finance evil  and therefore should it be dead? This book suggests neither nor. Even if structured finance can be misused or applied under inappropriate conditions, it can also be an effective tool for reaching development objectives. The authors in this volume focus on the potential of structured finance in the aftermath of the financial crisis. They explore the conditions under which structured finance is suitable for emerging markets highlighting both its benefits and risks. The book combines professional and scientific perspectives and points towards various useful applications of structured finance in support of small and medium-sized enterprises and microfinance. This also includes activities as diverse as infrastructure development, remittances, rural livelihood, and Shari'ah-compliant Islamic finance.   Private investors are far more perseverant and willing to take on risks than many believe. Private capital could serve to provide the scale necessary to reach the Millennium Development Goals. Preeti Sinha, World Economic Forum   The current market crisis teaches us that it is important to work by exact standards and that nothing stays as it is; therefore we need to uphold sound practices in the structuring of development finance transactions. André Laude, IFC   The microfinance industry always wanted to get integrated into the capital market. Now it actually happened and it turns out as a twilight zone. It is important therefore to keep in mind for what purpose structured finance is done and establish incentives to focus on the right clients. Alexia Latortue, CGAP   Securitisation will help the microfinance industry to allocate capital to where it is needed. Edgardo Salomón Barredo, Financiera Finsol (México)   In the future we will see more local, down-market and refined forms of structured development finance transactions. Jack Lowe, Blue Orchard Finance

Economic conditions. Economic development --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Economics --- economie --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking

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The surge in new investment funds - nearly 60 funds at last count - is an exciting sign that microfinance is attracting mainstream financial markets. Foreign investors bridge a crucial gap for MFIs and greenfield banks not yet able to attract deposits, debt or equity from local sources. Recognizing the ultimate goal of building those local financial markets that serve the poor, some foreign investors and funds are facilitating local intermediation with incentives like guarantees for local banks to lend to MFIs in local currency. Such contributions to local market building, combined with strengthening governance, increasing transparency and rigor make the new funds potentially very positive forces in microfinance. Elisabeth Littlefield, Director and CEO, CGAP Microfinance investment funds organised as mutual funds and structured finance products are bringing the vast resources of capital markets to the world of microfinance, which is about empowering poor people through provision of user-friendly financial services. These funds and structured products are superb means of producing a combination of financial and social returns. Individual and institutional investors are increasingly interested in the characteristics of microfinance loan portfolios. Progress in defining microfinance investments as an asset class is underway. In order to attract more commercial investors to microfinance, new financial instruments will have to be developed that satisfy commercial risk-return criteria while achieving the social benefits of microfinance activities. Jean-Philippe de Schrevel, Founder and Director, BlueOrchard Finance S.A.

Finance --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Economics --- economie --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- armoede --- financiën

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The book "International Finance in Emerging Markets" reviews contemporary issues in international monetary and financial economics in an emerging financial market using the example of Thailand. The book adopts the elements of new welfare economics and asymmetric information paradigms in analyzing those issues including financial liberalization, crisis, exchange rate determination, and domestic capital market reform. The book suggests for the first time a normative social approach for addressing the contemporary issues in international monetary and financial economics. It provides an example of cutting edge research in international finance and monetary economics within a welfare economics framework. It also suggests some policy implications of the welfare economic analysis of international financial issues in an emerging market. "This new book suggests a normative social approach for addressing international monetary and financial economic issues. To this end, the novelty of the book is to make use of new welfare economics and asymmetric information paradigms in analyzing the international financial issues in Thailand. Surely this book will soon become an important reference book by researchers, academics, professionals and postgraduate students in the areas of finance, financial economics and monetary economics." Dr. Bruno S. Sergi, Professor of International Economics, University of Messina, Italy " This book addresses contemporary issues in international monetary policy and finance from a welfare economics perspective, focusing on emerging market nations such as Thailand. It is a welcome contribution to the international finance literature." Prof. Steven L. Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business, and Founding Director, Global Capital Markets Center, Duke University, USA

Macroeconomics --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Economics --- economie --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- macro-economie