International Development - Fourth Report
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CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
SUMMARY
The Department for International Development
(DFID) and Private Sector Development
Private Sector Development and poverty reduction
BACKGROUND AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
Private Sector Development
2 UNDERSTANDING PRIVATE SECTOR
DEVELOPMENT
What is private sector development?
Figure 1: Growth and poverty
Pro-poor growth
Constraints to private sector development
Donor approaches to private sector development
DFID's approach to private sector development
3 ENABLING INVESTMENT CLIMATES
Property rights
Regulation, taxation and competition policies
The Investment Climate Facility
Governance
Corruption and socially responsible investment
Improving investment climates in resource-rich
countries
Enabling investment climates in fragile,
crisis-affected and least developed states
4 MAKING MARKETS WORK FOR POOR
PEOPLE
The Making Markets Work for the Poor
Approach
Employment
Financial sector development
Agriculture
Skills, technology, health and education
Making markets work in middle income countries
5 FINANCING PRIVATE SECTOR
DEVELOPMENT
Microfinance
Supporting SMEs and business sector development
Challenge funds
Public Private Partnerships
Remittances
6 HOW IS THE PRIVATE SECTOR
CONTRIBUTING TO DEVELOPMENT, AND HOW CAN DONORS SUPPORT THIS WORK?
Corporate Social Responsibility and beyond
Co-operative Enterprises
Business forums
Industry groups
7 PSD IN PRACTICE: DFID'S ORGANISATIONAL
DESIGN AND WAYS OF WORKING
Using resources outside DFID
Innovation: a weakness as well as a strength
A coherent approach to PSD
8 CONCLUSIONS
The 2006 DFID White Paper
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
LIST OF ACRONYMS
FORMAL MINUTES
LIST OF WITNESSES
LIST OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE
REPORTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTEE
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 921-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 921-II)
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