January 17th, 2008
IPEG event with Roben Farzad, author of “Can Greed Save Africa?”
We have an event scheduled for Thursday,January the 31st.
Speaker: Roben Farzad, author of Businessweek cover story “Can Greed Save Africa?”
Topic: His motivations for writing the story; preconceived notions;observations and epiphanies in the six countries he visited.
Date and Time: January 31st 2008, Thursday. 6:00-8.00 pm
Venue: W J Warren hall (Amsterdam Ave. and 115th st.) Room 208 (73) Columbia University.
If you would like to attend or have any questions, please e-mail us at emeka[dot]okafor [AT] gmail[dot]com
February 27th, 2006
Financing Gaps and the Business Environment
Over at the World Bank PSD blog, Pablo Halkyard makes a post of great relevance to the interests of our group. Pablo links to 3 separate papers at the World Bank, each of them on subjects that we’ve discussed at some point within IPEG.
1. How important are financing constraints? The role of finance in the business environment, by Maksimovic, Ayyagari and Demirguc-Kunt
2. Can foreign portfolio investment bridge the small firm financing gap around the world?, by April Knill
3. Taking the bad with the good: volatility of foreign portfolio investment and financial constraints of small firms, by April Knill
Pablo also points to the World Bank’s updated SME database.