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Blended Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Blended finance---the use of public and philanthropic funding to crowd in private capital---is a potential way to finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of private capital, little is known about this practice. In...
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Whither the World Bank and the IMF?
Krueger, Anne O. - 1997
On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to mark the occasion and to consider, often critically roles and performance. This paper reviews the functions of the two institutions in light of their" evolution over the past...
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Why is there Multilateral Lending?
Rodrik, Dani - 1995
Why should multilateral lending exist in a world where private capital markets are well developed and governments have their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent rationale, it must rest on advantages generated by the...
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The Adding Up Problem : A Targeting Approach
Krishna, Kala - 1995
This paper looks at the problem of making multiple lending decisions which affect the supply of the product when the consequences of these lending decisions are interrelated via the effect on the world price of the product. This is termed the 'adding up problem'. It is argued that thinking of...
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Insurance Underwriter or Financial Development Fund : What Role for Reserve Pooling in Latin America?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2006
The accumulation of international reserves by emerging markets raises the question of how to best utilize these funds. This paper explores two routes through which the pooling of reserves could enhance stability and welfare. First, the reserve pool could be used for emergency lending in response...
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Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments
Cadena, Ximena - 2011
We report the results from a field experiment with a micro lender in Uganda to test the effectiveness of privately implemented incentives for loan repayment. Using a randomized control trial we measure the impact of three different treatments: Borrowers are either given a lump sum cash reward...
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Donor Contracting Conditions and Public Procurement : Causal Evidence from Kenyan Electrification
Wolfram, Catherine D.; Miguel, Edward; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
There is limited causal evidence on the effects of different public procurement regulations on project quality and value-for-money for projects funded by national governments and foreign aid donors. This paper uses policy and experimental variation to study how two key contracting...
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Ownership and Use Taxes as Congestion Correcting Instruments
Chia, Ngee-Choon - 2001
In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift …
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Annuity Values in Defined Contribution Retirement Systems : The Case of Singapore and Australia
Doyle, Suzanne - 2001
is to assess the money's worth and adverse selection impact of annuities in two countries Singapore and Australia that …
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Accounting for Outward Direct Investment from Hong Kong and Singapore : Who Controls What?
Low, Linda - 1996
), we survey information on outward investors from Hong Kong and Singapore with the aim of illuminating the implications of … investment by foreign firms in Hong Kong and Singapore often involves sub- stantial contributions from local staff and partners … of foreign-controlled Hong Kong or Singapore investors suggested that many of the investors were acting as part of an …
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