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Private Donations for International DevelopmentCharitable donations by private individuals and firms can help fund the Millennium Development Goals. What are the prospects for increasing donations for international development, whether from small-scale donors, the super-rich (as in the recent...
Working Paper
Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of HelpThe telecommunications sector in Africa presents many exciting prospects to international investors—indeed many billion dollar projects are already underway across the continent. Many of the continent’s current problems can be traced to the...
Working Paper
State-Owned versus Township and Village Enterprises in ChinaThis study presents an up-to-date survey of the comparison issue between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and township and village enterprises (TVEs) in China. Although TVEs are disadvantaged in areas such as technology, labour skills, education levels...
Working Paper
Tree Plantations in the Philippines and ThailandThe area of forest plantations in the tropics has increased for many reasons, but not the least as a result of natural forest depletion. Although forest plantations cannot qualitatively substitute the timber grown in natural forests, their importance...
Book Chapter
Private Donations for International DevelopmentPart of Book New Sources of Development Finance
Book Chapter
Outfits: Narrowly Tailored Laws that Harm Instead of HelpThe telecommunications sector in Africa presents many exciting prospects to international investors—indeed many billion dollar projects are already underway across the continent. Many of the continent’s current problems can be traced to the...
Working Paper
The Challenge Fund Aid ModalityThis paper compares the use of Challenge Funds by the UK’s Department for International Development and Sweden’s International Development Agency to address gender challenges in development. Challenges Funds are meant to bring the interests of...
Research Brief
Assessing the Role of Gender in DfID and Sida Challenge FundsCorporate actors are now playing an important role in international development and contributing new ideas to development aid. Corporate–donor partnerships represent unique opportunities to combine the experience of donors with the innovative...