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Small States Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change : Role for the IMF
International Monetary Fund - 2016
Small developing states are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters. On average, the annual cost of disasters for small states is nearly 2 percent of GDP-more than four times that for larger countries. This reflects a higher frequency of disasters, adjusted for land area, as well as...
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Bermuda; Assessment of the Supervision and Regulation of the Financial Sector—Volume I—Review of Financial Sector Regulation and Supervision
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This paper assesses the financial sector regulation and supervision in Bermuda in the context of the offshore financial center assessment program. The assessment reveals that the financial, regulatory, and supervisory framework is well developed in banking, the key areas of securities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825396
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Bermuda; Assessment of the Supervision and Regulation of the Financial Sector
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper presents an assessment of Financial Sector Supervision and Regulation for Bermuda. The Bermudian authorities have made impressive progress in developing and implementing a risk-focused approach to supervision across the range of their sectoral supervisory responsibilities. Full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242738
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Switzerland; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Factual Update: Insurance Sector Market and Regulatory Developments
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2007
This paper presents a factual update of the Insurance Core Principles including insurance sector market and regulatory developments for Switzerland. Regulatory reforms since 2003 have updated Switzerland’s regulatory and supervisory regime for the insurance industry to bring it in line...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243001
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The Managing Director's Statement on the Role of the Fund in Addressing Climate Change
International Monetary Fund - 2015
The Fund has a role to play in helping its members address those challenges of climate change for which fiscal and macroeconomic policies are an important component of the appropriate policy response. The greenhouse gas mitigation pledges submitted by over 160 countries ahead of the pivotal...
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The Fiscal Implications of Climate Change
International Monetary Fund - 2008
This paper reviews the fiscal implications of climate change, and the potential role of the Fund in addressing them. It stresses that: -- The potential fiscal implications are immediate as well as lasting, and liable to affect-in differing forms and degree-all Fund members. -- Climate change is...
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Switzerland : Financial Sector Assessment Program: Technical Note: An Assessment of Insurance Core Principles for the Reinsurance Industry
International Monetary Fund - 2007
This technical note discusses key findings of the assessment of Insurance Core Principles (ICP) for the reinsurance … industry for Switzerland. It reveals that the Swiss reinsurance market is dominated by three large players with a strong … international presence. The reinsurance industry comprises 20 professional reinsurers and 50 reinsurance captives with gross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407024
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Jersey; Financial Sector Assessment Program Update: Detailed Assessment of Observance of the Insurance Core Principles
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009
This report presents a Detailed Assessment of the Observance of the Insurance Core Principles Report on Jersey. Other than the international business, most cover is obtained from insurers based overseas by the large insurance broker community on the island. There is no ombudsman and no...
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Germany; Financial Sector Assessment Program: Detailed Assessment of Observance on Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
The design of the German banking supervision framework is structurally sound, with a robust legislative and operational framework that largely complies with the Basel Core Principles for effective banking supervision (BCP). Various improvements to the German supervisory framework have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245319
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Germany; Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC)
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
This paper presents the report on observance of standards and codes (ROSC) for the financial sector prepared in connection with the financial sector assessment program (FSAP). The FSAP covers the Basel Core Principles for effective banking, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors...
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