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This chapter presents a brief introduction to electronic payments in Turkey followed by a detailed look into direct carrier billing (DCB).
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[This is a review of three books on microfinance and the cashless society]
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This study examines telecommunications productivity, technological catch-up and innovation in 74 countries for the … developing countries can enhance productivity through catch-up. An econometric model is estimated that relates innovation to … the Schumpeterian hypothesis that market size is conducive to innovation. However, the hypothesis that concentration (the …
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Interchange fees in card payments are a mechanism to balance costs and revenues between banks for the joint provision of payment services. However, such fees represent a relevant input cost used as a reference price for the final fee charged to the merchants, who may be reluctant to accept cards...
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Iran’s agriculture part is one of the areas that can have an important effect on the growth of country’s economy. Concerning this, variables that can increase value added agriculture have been concentrated on and the government is supporting them. One of these policies is granting loanable...
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Given the importance of financial intermediation and financial infrastructures such as payment systems for the economy, countries have established entities to supervise or oversee the well functioning of instutions, systems and networks. This paper is based on a presentaion made at XI...
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There are a number of international initiatives that have the goal of improving or maintaining financial stability by strengthening financial infrastructure. The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) contributed to this process through its work on developing Core Principles for...
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can enable Europe to move beyond basic services, increase payments efficiency, embrace innovation and integrate further …
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The financial crisis has revealed fatal institutional and structural deficits at the finance market. Politics has reacted to the financial crisis with a sea of legal bills and regulations. But all regulating efforts are merely system-imminent reparation measures and do not solve the core...
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Peru has an economy partially "dollarized" where 70% of the liquidity of the bank system has been in US dollars during …
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