entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …

We examine a large panel of more than 100 banks from Argentina to study the effects of bank consolidation on … performance between December 1995 and December 2000, a period of heavy bank consolidation and relative calm. Overall, we find a … positive and significant effect of bank consolidation on bank performance. Bank returns increase with consolidation, and …

volatility. Greater economic diversification would unlock job-creating growth, increase resilience to oil price volatility and … key prerequisites for economic diversification …

Diversification and structural transformation play important roles in influencing the macroeconomic performance of low … a country's production and export structure. This can include diversification into new products and trading partners as …

Diversification of the GCC economies, supported by greater openness to trade and higher foreign investment, can have a …

the People's Bank of China (China). The new borrowing agreement with Spain, the amendments to the NPA with Japan, and the …the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT or Trust), has entered into a new borrowing agreement with the Bank of … new NPA with China provide new resources of SDR 450 million, SDR 1.8 billion and SDR 800 million, respectively, to the …