Describes how to run a sound and efficient bank in a liberalized financial environment.Also available:Banking Institutions in Developing Markets. Volume 2: Interpreting Financial StatementsChris J. Barltrop and Diana McNaughton152 pages / (ISBN 0-8213-2218-4) / Stock No. 12218 / $20.00 / Price code S2

Discusses what banks' financial statements show and how to analyze them.Also available:Banking Institutions in Developing Markets. Volume 1: Building Strong Management and Responding to ChangeDiana McNaughton with Donald G. Carlson, Clayton Dietz, Peter Falletti, and Khalifa Ikramullah184 pages / (ISBN 0-8213-2217-6) / Stock No. 12217 / $20.00 / Price code S20

As financial markets are liberalized, bank management and bank regulators and supervisors are faced with new and complex challenges. In general, bank management is faced with the challenge of managing in a competitive and volatile market environment; bank supervisors have the challenge of establishing the framework that permits risk-taking without endangering the banks' safety and soundness. The book identifies and discusses a set of specific challenges, and suggests approaches that may be used by management and supervisors to surmount them.

This book tackles the disagreements that affect those looking to establish the macroeconomic policies needed to halve poverty over the next ten years. It presents a pro-poor macroeconomic policy allowing countries to recapture policy space, help promote growth, reduce inequality and diminish poverty in a sustainable way.

The present book examines the impact of Financial Reforms on the working of banking sector in general and Public Sector Banks in particular. In addition to assess multi-dimensional trend of banking sector, it examines the impact of Deregulation Policies on the Management of bank s resources. The book identifies many critical issues like determinants of Non-performing Assets, Profitability productivity of banks, mismatch of assets and liabilities and services rendered by banks particularly in the backward regions. The treatise embodies in it inter-intra banks and inter-intra regional, districts level variations. To encounter the objectives, appropriate hypothesis have been framed, statistical and financial techniques have been used to testify, the nature and problems of Public Sector vis-à-vis Private Sector and foreign banks. This book runs into ten chapters encompassing into different aspects of bank s performances with critical assessment in the context of reform package. The book will meet the growing interest of students, researchers, scholars, policymakers and general readers. It may be used as textbook for B.Com, B.B.A., M.B.A.; M.F.M. and M.A. (Eco.), M.Sc. (Eco.) courses.

In response to a clear need by low-income people to gain access to the full range of financial services including savings, a growing number of microfinance NGOs are seeking guidelines to transform from credit-focused microfinance organizations to regulated deposit-taking financial intermediaries. In response to this trend, this book presents a practical 'how-to' manual for MFIs to develop the capacity to become licensed and regulated to mobilize deposits from the public. 'Transforming Microfinance Institutions' provides guidelines for regulators to license and regulate microfinance providers, and for transforming MFIs to meet the demands of two major new stakeholders regulators and shareholders. As such, it focuses on developing the capacity of NGO MFIs to mobilize and intermediate voluntary savings. Drawing from worldwide experience, it outlines how to manage the transformation process and address major strategic and operational issues inherent in transformation including competitive positioning, business planning, accessing capital and shareholders, and how to 'transform' the MFI's human resources, financial management, MIS, internal controls, and branch operations. Case studies then provide examples of developing a new regulatory tier for microfinance, and how a Ugandan NGO transformed to become a licensed financial intermediary. This book will be invaluable to regulators and microfinance NGOs contemplating institutional transformation and will be of tremendous use to donors and technical support agencies supporting MFIs in their transformation.

Project management disciplines have been a part of IT for many years. Why then, are so many challenges still directly associated with how a project is managed? Many projects fail for a myriad of reasons; most, however, stem from poor or inadequate project evaluation and performance appraisal, while, improved project planning and direction is considered to be one of the key factors to IT project success. Eriona Shtembari arranges evaluation methods and techniques into three groups, managerial-financial-and-development. This book explores the process of project evaluation and the purposes of evaluation, given its strong relationship to the success of the project. It examines IT project evaluation; identifies methods and techniques to be used throughout the project life cycle; examines the benefits of project evaluation and proposes a systematic approach/framework of project evaluation to serve as a tool for successful project management. Shtembari analyses the most up-to-date research relating to the process and methods/techniques of project evaluation, throughout the project life cycle. From the systematic literature review, she identifies the most usable methods and techniques in project evaluation and focuses on the adequacy of these methods and techniques in the service sector. The theoretical underpinning of the book, serves as a base to interpret the interviews in the case study and build a theory as to how the project evaluation context relates to the proposed scientific theory. The findings in this book provide solutions for practitioners to help them boost the evaluation framework and consequently improve their IT project management.

Describes how to run a sound and efficient bank in a liberalized financial environment.Also available:Banking Institutions in Developing Markets. Volume 2: Interpreting Financial StatementsChris J. Barltrop and Diana McNaughton152 pages / (ISBN 0-8213-2218-4) / Stock No. 12218 / $20.00 / Price code S2

Proceedings of the 14th FRAP Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspectives conference taking place in Cambridge UK.