Development Finance International
19 October - Benin’s Survey Results Released
Benin has published its analytical report detailing the results of its first national survey on foreign private capital flows and investor perception. The report is now available online (in French only).
18 October - Nicaragua Publishes Private Sector Debt Report
This Central Bank report presents data captured in a series of quarterly surveys, which recently replaced the annual foreign assets and liabilities surveys. It covers stocks and gross transactions for 2007-8 split into loans and credits from related companies (a component of FDI), supplier credits from unrelated entities, and loans from unrelated entities. Other breakdowns include maturity, sector of economic activity, and source country.
16 October - Bolivia Publishes Latest Quarterly BOP and IIP
The Central Bank's latest report presents stocks and transactions data to Q1 2010, for FDI, portfolio, other investment, remittances and related income. FDI is presented by sector of economic activity and source country, and private sector debt by term for financial and non-financial sectors. The annex gives a BOP series for 2003 – Q1 2010.
15 October - Information Economy Report 2010 (UNCTAD)
This report focuses on the development impacts of improved access to information and communication technologies. Drawing on examples from countries such as The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, it identifies new opportunities especially for SMEs to develop their businesses and livelihoods, reduce information search and transactions costs, and benefit from improved market efficiency.
15 October - Measuring Governance (OECD)
Quantitative indicators of the quality of governance in developing countries and emerging economies have greatly proliferated since the mid-1990s. The main users of these indicators are international investors, official development agencies, journalists and academics. The most widely used, and misused, governance indicators are composite perceptions-based indicators. This paper argues that even the most carefully constructed composite indicators have limitations their users seem widely to ignore. Greater transparency is required both in the production and in the use of governance indicators.
