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Creating a more efficient financial system : challenges for Bangladesh
Beck, Thorsten - 2006
"While Bangladesh has embarked on a path to reform its financial system, most prominently by privatizing its government …
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Benin : Financial Sector Review
World Bank - 2012
This report combines a study undertaken in two phases of the Benin financial sector. Phase 1 of the study, conducted in 2003, provided a diagnostic of the financial system and focused on the state and performance of commercial banks, microfinance institutions, insurance companies and the pension...
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Libya Financial Sector Review
World Bank - 2020
The Libya Financial Sector Review represents a snapshot review of the Libyan financial sector which is based on a fact-finding mission to Tripoli, Libya, in January 2019, discussions with leading participants in the financial sector, and desk research. The report is based on the limited...
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Microfinance in South Asia : Toward Financial Inclusion for the Poor
World Bank - 2006
In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created … of the twenty-first century reinforced this trend as the Bangladesh numbers continued to grow impressively; in India, a …
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Lesotho : Financial Sector Review
World Bank - 2013
This report is a review of the Lesotho's financial system covering: i) the macro-financial environment; ii) safety and soundness of the banking system; iii) non-bank financial institutions; and iv) microfinance and finance for small and medium enterprises. The report was based on data and other...
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Financial Sector Assessment : Bangladesh
World Bank - 2013
The Bangladesh financial system, particularly banking and microfinance, has grown and developed since 2003 against the …
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Paraguay : Financial Sector Review
World Bank - 2013
The report examines the highly vulnerable situation of the financial system in Paraguay, which suffered from a banking crisis in 1995-98, in addition to recent competitive devaluations of the Brazilian currency, the fall in cotton prices, as well as the regional economic slowdown. A major factor...
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Uruguay : Financial Sector Review
World Bank - 2013
The study reviews Uruguay's financial sector, identifying a well-developed banking sector, which reflects off-shore banking growth stimulated by regional macroeconomic instability, and by the country's strict national banking laws. By contrast, the country's capital market is underdeveloped,...
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