'This regional report for Moscow City in Russia is part of a survey that was conducted in 15 regions of Russia: Irkutsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Perm, Sakhalin, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk and Novgorod Oblasts, Khabarovsk Krai and the cities of Saint Petersburg and Moscow. From the research we have concluded that obtaining ownership rights for land plots in Moscow city happens very rarely or does not exist. According to the surveyed companies, financial costs more...

'There has been growing interest from stakeholders around the world in recent years in how to build momentum for private sector development in states with poor investment climates. Recognizing the complementarities between their research efforts, and their common interest in identifying international best practice, a cross-sectoral team from the World Bank, IFC, DFID and OECD Development Centre co-organized a first International Workshop on Public-Private Dialogue, which was held in Paris in Feb more...

'In recent years there has been growing interest in the potential for dialogue between the public and private sectors to promote the right conditions for private sector development and poverty reduction. The purpose of this handbook is for use in promoting public-private dialogue (PPD) as a tool for improving the conditions for the private sector. This includes donor agencies, governments, private sector representative associations, and individual businesspeople. In February 2006, the World Bank more...

'Amid a shifting policymaking environment from private to public, volume one of this report discusses how public policies could attract more and better private investments. In attracting back private capital, this report argues that Brazil must do three things. First, it must eliminate remaining regulatory bottlenecks and policy uncertainties in selected sectors. Secondly, design infrastructure concessions to avoid 'excessive' renegotiations while simultaneously guaranteeing an adequate rate of more...

'The poverty strategy and program for social and economic transformation that Jordan adopted in 2001 recognizes that the successful completion of the ongoing privatization program in the electricity sector is crucial for attracting foreign investment and reducing debt. It also recognizes the importance of providing reliable energy supplies at reasonable cost. Given its resource based, Jordan will continue to rely almost entirely on imports to meet its energy needs.'

Many developing countries are moving into a danger zone. Growth in developing-countries had been expected to reach 6.4 percent in 2009, but has been marked down to 4.5 percent. The economies of high-income countries, many of which have already entered into recession, are now expected to contract by 0.1 percent in 2009, with global growth down to 1 percent. There is much uncertainty and even these scenarios could be optimistic. Some developing countries will be hit much harder than the ave more...

Growing Inclusive Markets (GIM) is a new initiative led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with an unprecedented coalition of thinkers and actors in the fields of business, academia and human development. We believe that in the race to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the greatest untapped resource is the private sector. Growing Inclusive Markets is designed to make a substantial contribution to both business strategies and human development by offering ma more...

This write-up by Prof. Bina Agarwal (DSE, DU) shows how much anti-feminist Indian society is in terms of giving property rights to women, which leads to another form of poverty (that is feminine in nature).

This paper considers the recent boom in IT-driven offshoring in India and examines the potential for this to become a major source of economic growth in the future. Currently there is much optimism about the benefits that the new trend can bring to India and other similarly placed countries, as growth in services is seen as more likely to deliver
employment, income and export revenue increases than growth in the commodity producing sectors. But such optimism may be misplaced given the relativel more...

The bailout worked out by the US government to save the financial system is not a progressive nationalisation but the socialisation of the risks of capitalists, and one that is to be borne by taxpayers in the US and by developing countries. The hugely expensive gamble, instead of helping the US government buy its way out of the crisis, would weaken its position as the dominant imperial power in future.