There is an emerging consensus within the international development community to subscribe to a human rights based approach to development. Most countries have signed onto international human rights conventions that have important implications for national legislative frameworks. The World Bank has thus far not directly endorsed a human rights based approach to development, but has argued that ...

BACKGROUND The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases established a specimen bank in 1999 to support the development and evaluation of new tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic tools. OBJECTIVE To provide a narrative of the bank's development and discuss lessons learned, the bank's limitations and potential future applications. RESULTS Collection sites were selected in high...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the health level at RDB Bali by using Risk Based Bank Rating (RBBR) method. RBBR method includes Profile, Good Corporate Governance, Earnings, and Capital (RGEC). A quantitative descriptive approach was used analyze. variables in are Profile ratio Non Performing Loans (NPL) Loan Deposit Ratio (LDR), Governance (GCG) uses composite value GCG, Earnings Retu...

Development Bank, and Joseph Anthony Lim is Professor in the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. This paper was prepared for the Asian Development Outlook 2005. The authors acknowledge very efficient research assistance from Suteera Sitong of the Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance, Thailand. Useful comments were received from Ifzal Ali and participants of the Asian Development Bank...

development of financial markets as an important factor in the economic growth process always has been of interest to economists. the purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between regional financial development and economic growth. this study uses provincial annual data over the period 2000-2011 by using panel data technique. the panel co integration techniques have been used to te...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a major focus of interest not only for corporate managers but also for development practitioners, both within the NGO community and within the multilateral and bilateral development agencies.1 Development NGOs have, for the most part, been extremely critical of the voluntary initiatives undertaken by the corporate sector. In a recent report Chris...

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...