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This paper discusses key findings of the financial sector stability assessment for Romania. The assessment reveals that in recent years, Romania’s financial sector regulatory authorities have made significant progress in adopting international best practices, including through...
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shows that this increasingly popular macroprudential tool can smooth provisioning costs over the credit cycle and lower …
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This note reviews some concepts of global liquidity and discusses measurement approaches that have been used by various interlocutors, including at the BIS, by Fund staff, and in academia. Some measures that could be regularly monitored by policy makers are presented
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financial sector is scarcely used to finance their investments. The lack of funding for the SME sector, or its high cost, has a … micro-entrepreneurs, with credit unions providing mostly consumer finance and an underdeveloped microfinance sector. The … authorities aim to develop a micro-credit act to make it mandatory for multilateral investment funds (MIFs) to register, and to …
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This paper discusses key findings of the Fifth Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Grenada. Four of the …
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debt levels are well above the EU average, and corporate debt levels are also high, although bank credit to firms has been …
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India’s financial system compares favorably internationally, but rising credit risk and liquidity pressures are …
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, and credit to the private sector has risen threefold. Loan classification, provisioning, and even capital remain uneven in …
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The Republic of Tajikistan’s Financial System Stability Assessment and reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes are examined. The Tajik financial system is small despite recent rapid growth. Overall, banks remain well capitalized and liquid, but the brisk expansion of their loan...
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