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Following The Money: An Analysis Of Foundation Grantmaking For Community And Economic Development, Keith Wardrip, William Lambe, Mels De Zeeuw

The Foundation Review

The article challenges the perception among some in the field of community and economic development that small and socioeconomically distressed metro areas do not attract a proportional share of grant capital from the nation’s largest foundations.

The analysis presented in this article reviewed nearly 169,000 community and economic development grants made by the largest foundations between 2008 and 2013 to identify metro- area characteristics that are associated with higher levels of grant receipt.

The density of nonprofit organizations and the presence of large, local foundations are shown to be consistently significant predictors of grant receipt. After controlling for these and …

Overview Of Development Financing: The Case Of Central Bank Of Nigeria, M. A. Olaitan

Bullion

This study highlighted the functions of Central Bank under development finance and economic development, and it also went further to state the mandate of the development finance Department which is the development and implementation of policies, programmes and schemes aimed at the effective, efficient and sustainable delivery of financial services to the real sector of the Nigerian economy. The objective of the mandate are to increase the flow of financial resources to the real sector, create wealth and jobs, reduce poverty and so on.