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Government Policies and the Development of Banking in Kenya

Published by: IDS

Financial Repression and Financial Reform in Uganda

Published by: IDS

The banking system in Uganda is among the weakest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its liabilities comprise less than 10 per cent of GDP, it is highly oligopolistic and inefficient in performing many basic banking functions, and the largest bank and several smaller banks are insolvent.

The Impact of Public Policy on the Banking System in Nigeria

Published by: IDS

The banking system in Nigeria has undergone radical changes during the 35 years since independence. Banking developed from an industry which in 1960 was dominated by a small number of foreign owned banks into one in which public sector ownership predominated in the 1970s and 1980s and in which Nigerian private investors have played an increasingly important role since the mid 1980s.

Financial Policies and the Banking System in Zambia

Published by: IDS

For over 20 years until the early 1990s Zambia had entailed extensive government ownership and administrative controls over markets, including financial and banking markets. Interventionist policies, combined with a steep fall in the external terms of trade, led to economic decline.

The Potential for Donor Mediation in NGO-State Relations: An Ethiopian Case Study

Published by: IDS

Relations between NGOs and states are often characterised by conflict, since each actor is in competition for development resources. This paper looks at situations where cooperation offers benefits to both parties but where conflict remains. It argues that cooperation can offer benefits to both sides, and proposes interventions donors can make to facilitate this.

Effective District Health Services in Developing Countries: A Busy Manager’s Guide to the Literature

Published by: IDS

Literature on effective health management and planning is commonly inaccessible to district health managers in developing countries. This bibliography aims to direct managers towards the most useful publications.

Programme Aid as an Appropriate Policy Response to Drought

Published by: IDS

This paper puts forward the argument for programme aid as a policy response to drought. It suggests its importance lies in the initial impact of the aid transfer, and in the additional opportunities thereby made available to carry out strategic policy.

Poverty, Policy and Aid

Published by: IDS

The World Bank's new strategy for poverty reduction was launched in the World Development Report of 1990. This issue of the Bulletin re-examines the Bank's new poverty agenda focusing on three key issues: the meaning and measurement of poverty, the interaction of poverty and domestic policy, and aid and poverty reduction.

Integrating Gender into Environmental Research and Policy

Published by: IDS

This study looks at the reasons why this has happened, blaming it on a flawed conceptualisation of gender relations that ignores the differing interests of men and women. Recommendations on how women's interests can be better safeguarded are proposed.

Industrial Branch Profiles

Published by: EIU/UNIDO

China Industrial Development Review, Ch. III: 162, UNIDO, January