'This CGD Working Paper tells the story of the powerful historical pathway of structural transformation that all successful developing countries undergo and of the diverse approaches to coping with the political pressures generated along the way. This structural transformation involves four main features: a falling share of agriculture in economic output and employment, a rising share of urban economic activity in industry and modern services, migration of rural workers to urban settings, and a more...

Switzerland has annually investmed CHF 68 million for the last five years to improve its water sector. This report shows how the investment has paid back in terms of reducing poverty, strenghtening the local institutions and creating basic conditions for deveopment.

The author argues that the CCT programme in Honduras can further reduce poverty with improved targeting mechanisms.

The Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24) was established in 1971. Its main objective is to concert the position of developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America on monetary and development finance issues.

In this article Tanzania spells out the importance of external finance as far as Socialist Development is concerned.

This key document is UNDP’s support program in Afghanistan. UNDP has been present in Afghanistan for over 50 years and continued to operate from Islamabad during the Taliban regime. UNDP supports the people of Afghanistan as they face new challenges and move their country from recovery to development towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2020. Since the Bonn Agreement was signed in December 2001, UNDP has delivered more that USD 1 billion of assistance to Afghanistan.

Over 16,700 severely malnourished patients, mostly children, have been cared for in MSF programmes in Oromiya and SNNP regions. Among them, 2,071 children suffering from medical complications have been admitted to five stabilisation centres where they receive 24-hour medical attention. Another 14,700 severely malnourished children have received nutritional treatment and food rations on an ambulatory basis in a network of 44 outpatient therapeutic programmes (OTP).

Since mid-July, supplementar more...

Access to financial services is still very limited in Sub-Saharan Africa, despite raising awareness of the role that financial services play in helping poor families manage their precarious lives. With just 1 in 5 households with access to formal financial services, the Sub-Saharan African suffers from one of the lowest rates of access in the world.

A recent CGAP survey found that while funders enthusiastically support access to finance to improve the lives of Africa’s, but there are geog more...

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ThesePro-poor microfinance institutions have their origins in NGO-managed not-for-profit programmes. As the microfinance ‘industry’ has grown and matured, the private sector has become increasingly active in marketing financial products and services to poor people in developing countries, demonstrating that the sector can be commercially sustainable. As well as in-country initiatives to deliver financial services to poor people, microfinance increasingly has an international dimension, such more...