According to the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a consortium of development groups, investors can choose from 74 microfinance funds, which channel investment to the sector.
The problems are reviewed in the World Bank Implementation, Completion and Results (ICR) report for the HPSP project, in which the World Bank played a lead role in the consortium of development partners [ 3].
According to Buse and Gwin [ 35], a consortium of development partners improves coordination by providing a venue for consultation, consensus building, optimizations of the comparative advantage of each contributor, and streamlining of interactions between donors and government.
The plot is described on Amazon like this: "The negative impacts of no-growth environmentalists, the Bureau of Land Management, and the giant oil company consortiums on development of these resources is depicted through fictional characters.
On November 1, 2011, the Mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn, and a consortium of global development organizations united under the banner of the organization Global Washington, are calling on the state's residents to learn more about our global development community and to support it.
So did a World Bank affiliate, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a consortium of government and private development organizations working to expand microfinance.
"Transaction cost, not risk, has long been the Achilles' heel of microfinance," said Elizabeth Littlefield, chief executive of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, a consortium of public and private development agencies.
According to a report published in this week's Lancet by the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI), an international consortium of academic centres and development agencies, sub-Saharan Africa has only one-tenth the number of nurses and doctors per head of population that Europe does, though its health-care problems are far more pressing.
The AMBI Media Group, a consortium of vertically integrated film development, production, finance and distribution companies (which counts End of Watch, Apocalypto and The Merchant of Venice among its title) and which he co-runs with Monaco-based businesswoman Lady Monika Bacardi, is said to have put in $100 million via a token pre-sale.
In the CATHLEAN project (an EU Framework 5 project performed between 2003 and 2006) a consortium of researchers investigated the development of an advanced, ultra-low NOx, hybrid burner for heavy-duty gas turbines that combines catalytic and lean-premix combustion components.
The consortium responsible for the next stage of development of the OWEL wave energy converter will construct and test a large scale, pre-commercial demonstrator.
