"STRATEGIES OF CITY-TO-CITY-CO-OPERATION FOR ECONOMIC REVITALISATION", Seville, Spain 1 -3 April 2009 City networks are a consolidated reality in nowadays, competing territories are most often than ever entering co-operation agreements with other cities and local government. The moment has come to demonstrate how city networks can represent an asset in the current economic situation and what real tools can cities employ to create and measure local economic development.
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Alternative Loan Guarantee Mechanisms and Project Finance for Infrastructure in Developing Countries This paper is concerned with infrastructure investment in developing countries: it aims to demonstrate that since the late 1990s, such investment was characterized by a process of credit rationing and that Multilateral Development Banks and Export Credit Agencies have a role to play in addressing this rationing through the use of loan guarantee mechanisms. It seeks to highlight the need for alternative loan guarantee mechanisms as a means of helping to restore private capital flows to infrastructure projects in developing countries. Specific policy proposals are developed.
Author: Stephany Griffith-Jones, Ana Teresa Fuzzo de Lima Details
FinMark Trust FinMark Trust was established in March 2002 with funding from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). FinMark Trust is an independent trust whose business is controlled by five trustees from countries in Southern Africa.
Our mission is summarised in our slogan: “Making Financial Markets Work for the Poor”.
In pursuit of this objective, FinMark Trust aims to promote and support policy and institutional development towards the objective of increasing access to financial services by the un- and under-banked in Africa.
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Access to Housing Finance in Africa: Exploring the Issues (Botswana) This report is the second of a series of studies which will explore access to housing finance in various African countries. It is meant as an input into a larger debate about how to enhance access to housing poor by low and moderate income earners throughout Africa.
Author: Lex von Rudloff Details
Access to Housing Finance in Africa: Exploring the Issues (Zambia) This report is the first of a series of studies which will explore access to housing finance in various African countries. It is meant as an input into a larger debate about how to enhance access to housing poor by low and moderate income earners throughout Africa.
Author: David Gardner Details
Access to Housing Finance in Africa: Exploring the Issues (Kenya) This report is the third of a series of studies which will explore access to housing finance in various African countries (earlier reports consider housing finance sectors in Zambia and Botswana). It is meant as an input into a larger debate about how to enhance access to housing poor by low and moderate income earners throughout Africa.
Author: Dr J G Mutero Details
