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Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations (2013), Victoria L. Rodner
Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations (2013), Victoria L. Rodner
Markets, Globalization & Development Review
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Inside The Black Box: Investigating Philanthropic Foundation Strategies In A Dynamic Environment, Amanda Stewart
Inside The Black Box: Investigating Philanthropic Foundation Strategies In A Dynamic Environment, Amanda Stewart
The Foundation Review
Foundations have been described as black boxes — implying that we know very little about what happens between inputs and outputs. We do know that they operate in dynamic environments and must adopt strategies to be effective in the face of change. This article, which examines the strategies of 29 foundations operating in one southeastern state, provides fresh insights into how foundations fulfill their missions.
The article is based on a research study that used semistructured interviews to explore how foundations approached grantmaking. Interviewees discussed the multiple and simultaneous roles played by grantmakers in addition to their traditional check-writing function. …
Let's Listen To Sarma: Developing An Index Of Financial Inclusion For Nigeria., Baba N. Yaaba
Let's Listen To Sarma: Developing An Index Of Financial Inclusion For Nigeria., Baba N. Yaaba
Bullion
The National Financial inclusion Strategy of the Central Bank of Nigeria was designed to reduce the percentage of adult Nigerians excluded from financial services from 46.3 per cent as at 2070 to 20.0 per cent by 2020. As a component of the policy tool kit, the strategy makes provision for annual data gathering to measure progress in financial inclusion drive of the Bank. This approach and others recognised by the CBN are mostly survey based, hence occasional and expensive. ln order to facilitate cross-country comparison, this study adopted Sarma (2008, 2012) to compute a composite index for financial inclusion for …