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Financing Forest Investments in Latin America: The Issue of Incentives

Haltia, Olli; Keipi, Kari - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

This paper discusses the topic of deforestation in Latin America and the Caribbean and the use of incentives as support for private forestry investments. The paper develops the idea of using targeted and cost-effective incentives that must take into account cultural and social factors. In...

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Towards an Effective Regulatory and Supervisory Framework for Latin America

Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Weisbrod, Steven R. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

the intent of capital requirements, even when the bank itself is subject to rigorous accounting standards. A number of …, which currently are markets for bank liabilities; severely limiting public safety nets for bank liabilities so that risky … in restraining bank risk in Latin America than in the industrial countries. …

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Banking Crises in Latin America: Experience and Issues

Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Weisbrod, Steven R. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank/Group of 30 conferences on Banking Crises in Latin America, October 6 and 7 …

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Financial Markets and the Behavior of Private Savings in Latin America

Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Weisbrod, Steven R. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

approximated by the ratio of corporate demand for bank liquid assets. Latin American countries have lower private savings rates … than other developing and most industrial countries. They also display the highest corporate to household bank deposit …

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Napoleon, Bourses, and Growth in Latin America

Levine, Ross - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

The value of equity market transactions in emerging economies soared from about 2 percent of the world total in 1986 to 12 percent in 1996. This boom was accompanied by an explosion of international capital flows, especially flows into developing country stock markets. Moreover, while equity...

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International Initiatives to Bring Stability to Financial Integration

Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Hausmann, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

Financial liberalization and integration have generated disappointing results. They were supposed to set up a win-win situation: capital would flow from capital-abundant, low-return, aging industrial countries to capital-scarce, high-return, young emerging countries. Growth in receiving...

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Achieving Stability in Latin American Financial Markets in the Presence of Volatile Capital Flows

Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Weisbrod, Steven R. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1995

expansion of risky bank credit that often accompanies excessive liquidity expansion. …This paper considers whether reserve requirements have been effective in controlling excessive liquidity growth. It … also discusses the adequacy of bank supervisory standards, such as capital to risk-weighted asset standards, in controlling …

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Wholesale Payments Systems and Financial Discipline, Efficiency, and Liquidity

Folkerts-Landau, David - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

the reform agenda now are issues pertaining to the relation between the central bank, commercial banks and the wholesale …

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Improving Credit Risk Analysis with Psychometrics in Peru

Klinger, Bailey; Khwaja, Asim; LaMonte, Joseph - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Access to finance remains a challenge for some micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Peru, particularly informal enterprises with no borrowing history in the formal financial system. Lenders lack the tools to reach these borrowers with sufficient scale and control over risk due...

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Unlocking SME Finance in Argentina with Psychometrics

Klinger, Bailey; Castro, Lucio; Szenkman, Paula; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Access to finance remains a challenge for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Argentina. It is a particularly acute problem among newly created SMEs that have a scant credit record and frequently lack collateral. The authors of this paper carried out a pilot test of an innovative psychometric...

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