The World Bank is accepting on-line applications for the 2009 Young Professionals Program selection.
Deadline to apply is July 15th, 2008
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The first Development Marketplace for the African Diaspora in Europe (D-MADE) ended in Brussels last week, awarding close to a million dollars for sixteen investment projects in Africa. The winning projects will be implemented in 11 African countries, including Mali (4), Cote d'Ivoire (2) Benin (2) and one each for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Togo. The winners were selected from a group of 68 finalists who presented projects that a 24-person jury deemed innovative, sustainable, replicable and based on sound business principles. The D-MADE initiative was launched in 2007 to allow entrepreneurs from the African Diaspora in Europe to participate in the development of their countries. As usual on Fridays, from Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes. Gender Inequality and the Labor Market Like every Friday, from Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes. Like every Friday, from Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes. Economic growth and gender inequality
This issue addresses the question of how companies can operate profitably in emerging market economies, while enhancing the well-being of the poor by nurturing them as producers and consumers. The whole issue is available on-line.
From Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith's lecture notes. Empirical studies of gender inequalities and economic growth (and 3) By focusing on differential school attainment as the measure of gender inequality, Dollar and Gatti (1999) estimate the growth equation mentioned before, i.e. : [˙y/y]it=δ+ψgit+Xπ+ui We mentioned yesterday the recently published Growth Report. Willian Easterly and Martin Wolf give their views about it in the FT. Others joined the discussion at the FT's Economists' Forum. The Commission on Growth and Development, an independent group of twenty-one leading practitioners from government, business and the policymaking arenas, released recently its final report The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development,which looks at how developing countries can achieve fast sustained and equitable growth.
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