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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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banks suggests that neither bank size nor government ownership fully explains adoption patterns. Organizational culture …
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pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank … private sector bank branches in districts with greater exposure to state-owned banks experienced deposit withdrawals and … shortening of deposit maturity. In contrast, nearby vulnerable state-owned bank branches grew their deposit base and increased …
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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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On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to …" evaluates and assesses some of the criticisms and proposals for reform of the two institutions." …
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their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent …
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of the lender (the Bank) as compared to those of the borrowers (the countries) must be clear. Second, the extent of the …
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the current loan), a 25% reduction of the interest rate in the next loan the borrower takes from the bank, or a monthly …
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-random allocation of multilateral funding sources across nearby villages. African Development Bank (AfDB) projects used bundled … contracts while the World Bank (WB) employed unbundled contracts together with strengthened inspections. To measure impacts, we …
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