The New Microfinance Handbook takes a market systems approach to financial inclusion, oriented by client needs. Framing the book with the client as the central element recognizes the emerging awareness that financial needs of the poor are many and are provided by multiple market players beyond the scope of any single institutional form

This book informs about the oldest learned society in the United States of America; it promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities

This book is an easy-to-use process that helps you capture your vision and translate it into concrete results. Jim has truly streamlined a tiresome, complicated chore. With a return to simple values simple truths, planning can be fun and creative

The goal of this book is simply to increase your confidence as a trainer. It will add to your professional competence in selecting, designing, and adapting a variety of proven training methods to your approach. Study them, try them out, and evaluate their effectiveness. Just as a good chef adds unique ingredients (and experience) to a recipe, you will add to these methods the unique insights of your own approach to training

This book begins with a series of practical activities to familiarize learners (and teachers too perhaps!) with the way the Internet works. It moves on to activities involving communication via email. The third section offers activities to do with retrieving information from the Internet. Finally, there are activities designed to help learners build their own websites. The activities are clearly described and user-friendly, and will go a long way towards dispelling the misgivings many teachers feel about computers and the Internet as a resource

From choosing the right investor to selecting the typeface, The One-Page Proposal is the one tool you need to propel your business idea to the top of any investor's to-do list. In a world where decisions are made between two rings of a cell phone, this is what a successful business proposal must be. Step by step, the author outlines how to create the perfect attention-grabbing pitch, offering dozens of strategies to help organize your research, focus your message, eliminate unnecessary language, and anticipate potential reservations

This book will increase the assets you bring to your job. Every organization wants employees that bring these Continuously Improving personal attributes: positive self-esteem; creative energy for discovering how to improve processes at work and home; increased feelings of power and influence; increased ability to hear the "voice of the customer" and to serve others

This handbook on internal consulting is a collection of principles, exercises, and practices that enable professionals to understand the scope of the internal consulting function while focusing on specific skills for development

The Light of New York, a stunning photographic essay by Jean-Michel Berts, features black-and-white photographs taken before sunrise and after sundown. 128 pages, 70 images

This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender disparities, an important component of overall inequality, may limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor people. This view is supported by the robust finding that while growth (as well as the gains from trade) is the major vehicle of lifting people out of poverty, it is more likely to be pro-poor when initial inequality is low. High inequality directly lowers the rate of poverty reduction by hindering growth.Ample evidence shows that, in spite of recent improvements, there are still large gender disparities in access to education, health, credit, and other resources.