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the public sector, particularly by sovereigns. Recent volatility in energy and food prices, however, has awakened the … advance risk management strategies in countries vulnerable to food and energy price shocks. It focuses specifically on the use …
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a wide variety of income, where more than half of the population lives in poverty. Energy in general and electricity … specifically are critical for economic development. Electricity is needed to power the machinery that supports income … of electricity for businesses. Although the individual electricity markets of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala …
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The past 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world - many of them for the better. Across the continents, many countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As a result, economies...
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"The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the changes in the calculation of minimum regulatory capital requirements for credit risk that have been drafted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel II). Even though the revised credit capital rules represent a dramatic...
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This volume takes a critical look at the country's social protection "system" - broadly defined to include policy interventions, public institutions, and the regulation of private institutions that lower the welfare costs of adverse shocks to income from job loss and extended unemployment,...
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