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The U.K. financial sector is globally systemic, open, and complex. It has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic fittingly, thanks to the post-GFC reforms, a proactive macroprudential stance, and an effective multipronged response to maintain financial stability. Brexit uncertainties are being handled...
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This Selected Issues paper on Nepal measures the extent to which Nepal's households change their expenditure patterns and labor supply in response to remittances, using the Nepal Household Risk and Vulnerability Survey-2016 and employing a propensity score matching method. This study provides...
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This Selected Issues paper examines the degree to which inflation co-moves between India and a panel of countries in Asia. The paper shows that the considerable co-movement in headline inflation rates between India and Nepal is driven almost exclusively by food-inflation co-movement. By...
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This Selected Issues paper analyzes France's fiscal stance using a structural stochastic model. The theoretical model features a forward-looking benevolent government that needs to decide the optimal fiscal stance given the level of public debt, the cyclical position of the economy, and...
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This paper provides an assessment of the insurance sector in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has one of the … deepest, most developed insurance markets in the world. Insurance penetration is 50 percent higher than in the European Union … or other advanced economies, and the expenditure per capita in insurance amounts to USD 5,429 as compared with USD 3 …
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Pre-pandemic, Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH) economy was growing, but at a pace below the more successful countries in Eastern Europe. The pandemic generated a substantial output contraction in 2020. Early in the pandemic, the authorities successfully implemented restrictions to prevent the...
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The pandemic dealt a severe blow to the Italian people and their economy. GDP fell by nearly 9 percent in 2020, with much larger drops for contact-intensive services. Public and corporate debt increased strongly and preexisting vulnerabilities have likely worsened. The government is prioritizing...
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.S. authorities in recent years to recalibrate and further tailor the banking regulatory and supervisory framework and the role of … once the impact of the pandemic on the economy and the banking sector becomes clearer …
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