#theme:finance

Businesses operating in developing countries should use their influence to strengthen national government systems, rather than bypassing them if progress is to be made on global poverty reduction. Businesses should use their influence to strengthen national government systems instead of bypassing them. Businesses and private foundations must be included in global public policy forums. Private foundations should continue investing in innovative projects and should work more closely with civil society. Businesses should learn from aid agencies’ best practice and avoid duplicating existing development projects.

This paper presents the ACCA Global Forum for SMEs’ recommendations for the development of a visible and consistent global agenda on SME access to finance. It calls for intergovernmental organisations to develop and support a consistent platform for sharing best practice. It also encourages national governments to engage in this process, developing a long-lasting change in SME financing across the world.

Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service. This paper sets out a framework for considering the design of regulation of mobile banking. Since it lies at the interface between financial services and telecoms, mobile banking also raises competition policy and interoperability issues that are discussed in the paper. Finally, by unbundling payments services into its component parts, mobile banking provides important lessons for the design of financial regulation more generally in developed as well as developing economies.

The objectives of the study were to identify the field level problems and make suggestions for resolving these problems so that financial inclusion could be expedited and completed in a time bound manner, thus paving the way for the real financial inclusion of the people in the country.

This paper studies the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile phone rollout, on economic growth in a sample of African countries from 1988 to 2007. Further, it also investigates whether financial inclusion is one of the channels through which mobile phone development influences economic growth.

The paper focuses on the public financing component of climate change actions, but also acknowledges the role played by communities, civil society, the private sector and international support. The objective of the study has been to develop an appropriate methodology and then conduct an exploratory Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR), at both the national and local level. This CPEIR reviews the financial management systems as well as the institutional arrangements and policy directives for allocating and spending climate change-related finance. The study entails:An assessment of current policy priorities and strategies as these relate to climate change.A review of the institutional arrangements for promoting the integration of climate change policy priorities into budgeting and expenditure management. A review of the integration of climate change objectives within the budgetary process, including as part of budget planning, implementation& expenditure management

The document seeks to identify effective investment strategies in reducing the vulnerability of major crops for the Ecuadorian economy, the same as are set in the Basic Food Basket, so that the country can, on one hand, reduce risks and, on the other, invest efficiently in sustainable development. This document was produced under the Strengthening Negotiations under the framework of the Bali Road Map Project, and includes the following sections: 1. Why food safety is a key sector for the country 2. Description of the food security sector 3. Proposed adaptation measures for the food sovereignty sector 4. Key issues for assessing investment and financial flows to address climate change adaptation 5. Methodology for assessing investment and financial flows The original document is in Spanish.

This report places climate change financing within the wider development context, and in particular in relation to the Aid Effectiveness principles articulated in the Paris Declaration (PD) and the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA). It makes no judgement on whether the external finance is classified as Official Development Assistance or not. Rather it seeks to use the experience of how external financing works as articulated in the Paris Declaration, as a benchmark. In doing so it looks at existing climate change-financing mechanisms in Ghana and assesses the extent to which principles of aid effectiveness are being applied. The analysis is based upon a review of literature and data, supported by a number of stakeholder interviews in country, with government officials, donors, civil society and the private sector. This was, however, a rapid exercise, and is not a comprehensive study. It can only begin to raise key issues and is meant to be a prompt for discussion.