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How Should Financial Institutions and Markets be Structured?: Analysis and Options for Financial System Design
Kaufman, George G.; Kroszner, Randall S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
This paper analyzes the consequences of alternative financial structures for financial efficiency and stability. The focus is on the organizational structure of banks. Alternative bank structures range from 'narrow banks' to broad 'universal banks.' Each banking structure is assessed in its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943808
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Inflation Targeting and Quantitative Tightening: Effects of Reserve Requirements in Peru
Armas, Adrián; Castillo, Paul; Vega, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This paper provides an overview of the reserve requirement measures undertaken by the Central Bank of Peru. It provides a rationale for the use of these instruments as well as empirical evidence of their effectiveness. In general, the results show that tightening reserve requirements has the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943927
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Macroprudential Regulations in Andean Countries
Galindo, Arturo; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Valle, Marielle del - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
The importance of having in place a financial regulatory framework that includes macro-prudential regulations was fully recognized during the recent global financial crisis. A central lesson from that episode was that relying on regulations that solely assessed the risks that financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673681
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Agricultural Insurance Revisited: New Developments and Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Wenner, Mark D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to provide Bank staff interested in agricultural yield insurance market development …, public officials responsible for financial market policy formulation and supervision, and insurance industry practitioners in … guidelines and recommendations on how to develop viable and sustainable agricultural yield insurance markets. The paper relies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274420
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A Quarter Century of Pension Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
Masci, Pietro; Crabbe, Carolin A.; Ríos, Guillermo Larraín - Inter-American Development Bank; The Principal …
This book focuses on experiences with and lessons learned from the sweeping reforms to the pension systems of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s and early 2000s, which shifted the burden of old-age security from the public to the private sector. The book's main objective is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772422
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Health Services in Latin America and Asia Title: Servicios de salud en América Latina y Asia
Molina, Carlos Gerardo; Marulanda, Nohra Rey de; … - Inter-American Development Bank
social health insurance, improvements in the equity and efficacy of health services, and changes in public and private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772450
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Agricultural Insurance Revisited: New Developments and Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Wenner, Mark D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to provide Bank staff interested in agricultural yield insurance market development …, public officials responsible for financial market policy formulation and supervision, and insurance industry practitioners in … guidelines and recommendations on how to develop viable and sustainable agricultural yield insurance markets. The paper relies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654082
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Making the Most of Family Remittances: Second Report of the Inter-American Dialogue Task Force on Remittances
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2010
Analysis of the relationship between remittances and the local economies in Central America, with special attention to Nicaragua and Guatemala. It also provides some policy recommendations to leverage and mitigate the impact of remittances.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654275
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Central America: Remittances and the Macroeconomic Variable
Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Analysis of the relationship between remittances and the local economies in Central America, with special attention to Nicaragua and Guatemala. It also provides some policy recommendations to leverage and mitigate the impact of remittances.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654469
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Toward the Mainstream: Currents and Dynamics of Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean
Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Analysis of the relationship between remittances and the local economies in Central America, with special attention to Nicaragua and Guatemala. It also provides some policy recommendations to leverage and mitigate the impact of remittances.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655299