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Following the collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, Aga KhanDevelopment Network established the Emergency Microcredit Programme and the Rural Microcredit Programme, each of which was aimed at improving the economic security of the population and offering credit for start-ups, re-starts and
http://www.akdn.org/microfinance/Afghanistan/index.html

An academic journal exploring business in the Asia Pacific countries. The journal looks at questions related to the growth of the Asia Pacific region and the origins of national economic success by examining economics, history, politics and culture. Contents of the journal and abstracts of the artic
http://www.gbhap.com/journals/titles/13602381.asp

The web site of the cental bank of Indonesia. Features statistics, news and access to full text documents.
http://www.bi.go.id/web/id/

Bank Negara Malaysia is the central bank for Malaysia. It was established on 26 January 1959, under the Central Bank of Malaya Ordinance, 1958, with the following objectives: 1. To issue currency and keep reserves safeguarding the value of the currency; 2. To act as a banker and financial adv
http://www.bnm.gov.my

The central bank of Thailand WWW has materials (in Thai and English) on the Bank and extensive statistical data on the Thai economy. Statistics can be viewed on screen or downloaded in Excel format. Statisctial series include: interest rates; foreign exchange rates; bank rates; manufacturing produc
http://www.bot.or.th

Bank Rakyat Indonesia. Indonesian bank, with a microcredit portfolio
http://www.bri.co.id/

Network of some 35 national policy institutions, commercial banks and NGOs from nine countries in Asia - namely Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Its objective is to link microfinance with the financial system. It pursues this objective thr
http://www.bwtp.org

BRAC Afghanistan was setup by BRAC, the largest NGO in Bangladesh, in 2003. Since then the organization has expanded rapidly to become the leading microfinance institution in Afghanistan. As of September 2006, BRAC Afghanistan works in 19 provinces offering loans and savings services to a largely fe
http://www.bracafg.org/

Stockholm School of Economics
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy, Stockholm School of Ecoomics, and guest researcher at China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Beijing, since 2004.
http://www.hhs.se/Faculty/sv_showperson.htm?personid=1652

Master's thesis (2006) This Master’s Degree is a futurology that aims to analyse how the Chinese stock market might develop for a period of ten years, i.e. between the years 2005-2015. Since the future never with certainty can be predicted, scenarios will be presented displaying other possible outco
http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_sh_diva-481-1__fulltext.p...