Finance covers innovations in banking, government finance, and microfinance. Finance is important in the functioning of any public or private organization. This section includes several studies, articles, and news items on new approaches to allocation and management of financial resources. It highlights the critical role of finance in public management and global development. It presents the ever-growing role played by information technology in financial organizations.
It’s hard to argue with success. For instance, we couldn’t argue with the success of deregulated housing finance, at least until it proved to be totally illusory and led to the wreckage of the global economy. Now we’re arguing about who should have been arguing with “success,” at what point they should have argued with it, and what they should have done about it. Ah ...
This report summarizes findings from the USAID-sponsored project on models of financing for slum upgrading in India, undertaken on behalf of SPARC, a prominent NGO involved in slum upgrading in India and internationally for over two decades, and the National Housing Bank of India (NHB), one of whose main goals is enhancing housing finance for low-income households. In preparing the recommendations ...
A study by an Icelandic bank assesses the potential for geothermal power development in the United States.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ — The Ohio Department of Development's Office of Community Services along with the statewide organization Finance Fund are introducing the "Cars for Jobs and Diplomas" program. This new initiative is an effort to provide affordable used car financing and consumer assistance to approximately 60 low-income participants statewide. The Ohio Community Action ...
The combination of retiring baby boomers and the government's stimulus package has created a bright spot in today's gloomy job market: Uncle Sam is hiring.
Decentralization and intergovernmental finance have been a common element in international development efforts for many years. However, the success of fiscal decentralization as a development strategy is decidedly unclear, and there is growing skepticism about the effectiveness of (fiscal) decentralization as an international development strategy. This short essay explores the current state of ...
Tax advisers are pushing new maneuvers that allow taxpayers to get more money to their children and to their favorite causeat the same time.
The city of Chicago is using ARRA funds to introduce a new program for retrofit delivery that relies on private sector financing and energy service companies to target property owners of lower-income multi-family homes.
What started as a way to stimulate innovation in education systems is becoming a new model for replacing those systems. From a political movement to a set of public policies to various experiments in practice to… what? This has been the trajectory of charter schools, starting roughly 20 years ago. Today, in 39 states and the District of Columbia, nearly 5,000 charter schools enroll more ...
Environmental worries have transformed the waste industry, says Edward McBride (interviewed here). But governments’ policies remain largely incoherentTHE stretch of the Pacific between Hawaii and California is virtually empty. There are no islands, no shipping lanes, no human presence for thousands of miles—just sea, sky and rubbish. The prevailing currents cause flotsam from around ...