Assessing the Shadow Economy in Mongolia
IRIS surveyed 13,000 households in Mongolia to assess the size, location, characterstics, causes, and consequences of its shadow economy.
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Building the Microfinance Regulation Resource Center
Helping the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) build a resource center on microfinance regulation and supervision, including laws, regulations, and policies affecting microfinance.
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Corporate and Financial Governance in Nepal
IRIS helped the government of Nepal develop a secured transactions ordinance.
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Corruption in China
Examining the impact of corruption on economic, social, and political development — internationally and in China specifically.
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Creating Opportunities for Bangladesh — The JOBS Project
IRIS stimulates “entry level” economic growth through advisory assistance and support to small, medium, and micro enterprises — and by improving the policy environment in which they operate. JOBS works in eight different sectors, with a special interest in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), where the project supports private sector and human resource development initiatives.
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Decentralization, Quality of Governance, and Corruption
IRIS conducted surveys in Uganda and the Philippines relating to devolution, quality of governance, and corruption, to address the broad question, “Under what conditions does decentralized governance prove most effective?”
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Enhancing Economic Governance in Indonesia
IRIS implemented a five-year collaborative program to help shape the economic policies of a newly democratic Indonesia, promote a stronger investment climate, and stimulate broader public participation in economic policy.
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Establishing a Commercial Court System in Peru
IRIS is helping Peruvian justice system actors to create a specialized commercial court system in Peru.
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Improving Access to Business Credit in China
Assisting the People’s Bank of China in analyzing current lending practices and procedures, and developing recommendations for legal reform to allow movable property as collateral.
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Legal & Judicial Capacity Building in Bangladesh
A project to improve the environment for small businesses by increasing access to justice, particularly for women and the poor; and by improving the civil justice system itself.
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Poverty Assessment Tools for Microenterprise Practitioners
Developing low-cost tools to assess the poverty levels of client households in USAID-sponsored microenterprise programs.
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Pre-Election Economic Education in Indonesia
A quick-response economic education program oriented to Indonesia’s first fully democratic elections in 30 years, presenting 18 conferences in 15 cities.
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Providing Intellectual Support
for USAID’s Policy Agenda
Helping USAID’s Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (PPC) to strengthen its role as center of ideas and as a global leader in addressing development policy issues.
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Secured Financing for Small & Medium Enterprises in Sri Lanka
IRIS helped improve the legal framework for secured finance in Sri Lanka, to facilitate borrowing by small and medium enterprises.
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Secured Transactions Reform in Vietnam
IRIS assisted the Government of Vietnam to prepare two laws/regulations: (1) an amendment of the Civil Code, and (2) the Ordinance on Registration of Secured Transactions.
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Strengthening Regional Universities in Indonesia
IRIS worked with 22 Indonesian universities, from Aceh to Papua, to develop the capacity of their economics programs, and in turn improve local and regional government access to policy and analysis resources during Indonesia’s decentralization process.
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Supporting Microenterprise Development in Fragile States
The IRIS Center, working in partnership CARE, Save the Children and World Vision, will create a model framework for implementing microenterprise development under conditions of fragility using both existing fragile states concepts and best practices implemented by microfinance institutions.
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