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Evidence Report 4

What is Business and Development? An Annotated Bibliography

Published on 1 May 2013

This annotated bibliography provides an exhaustive collection of resources on the topic of Business and Development.

It includes sections on Private Sector Investment for Development (encouraging business investment in developing countries), Leveraging Private Sector Finance for Development, Influencing Private Sector Strategies for Development and Measuring and Evaluating Development.

Each section includes informative case studies from around the developing world. Where possible it also includes interactive links to the documents mentioned. 

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Yeganeh, M., Velasco Herrejon, P., Watson, W., Spratt, S. and Cirera, X. (2013) 'What is Business and Development? An Annotated Bibliography', IDS Evidence Report 4, Brighton: IDS

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authors
Yeganeh, M., Velasco Herrejon, P., Watson, N., Spratt, S. and Cirera, X.
journal
IDS Evidence Report, issue 4
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English

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