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Kazakhstan : Assessment of Costs and Benefits of the Customs

World Bank - 2013

In 2010, Kazakhstan entered into a customs union with Belarus and Russia. The first, relatively easy step in the implementation of the customs union was accomplished in 2010 with the adoption of a common external tariff, with varying exceptions in each of the three member countries. It is the...

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Power System Planning in India : Incorporating Environmental Externality Costs and Benefits

World Bank - 2012

This paper has been prepared in accordance with the terms of reference for a study on power system planning in India: incorporating externality costs and benefits. It reviews estimates of the external costs of power in international studies as well as in India and compares the figures available....

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From Remittances to M-Payments

World Bank - 2012

Retail payment systems play an important role in the smooth functioning of any economy, and thus any inefficiency in the retail payments market can send negative effects cascading throughout the financial realm. The World Bank Global Payment Systems Survey 2010 has shown that inefficiencies...

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Innovation in Payments : Opportunities and Challenges for EMDEs

International Monetary Fund; World Bank - 2022

The global economy is undergoing a rapid digital transformation that is changing many conventional notions about our behavior and preferences. This includes the way in which we, as consumers, as businesses, or in interactions with government, seek out goods and services and pay for them or how...

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Retail Payment Costs and Savings in Kosovo

Central Bank of Kosovo (CBK); World Bank - 2022

This report is based on a study of the costs of retail payments in Kosovo, using a methodology (A Practical Guide for Measuring Retail Payment Costs) developed by the World Bank's Payment System Development Group (PSDG), part of the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice. The...

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Central Bank Digital Currency : A Payments Perspective

World Bank - 2021

Payment and settlement systems and services have become vital components of the economic life of contemporary societies. Over the last decades, they have gone through several waves of reforms that have changed the landscape of the national payments system (NPS) in virtually every country in the...

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Infrastructure and public utilities privatization in developing countries

Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2006

"The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so that public subsidies decline. This benefit for...

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Earthquake vulnerability reduction program in Colombia : a probabilistic cost-benefit analysis

Ghesquiere, Francis - 2006

difficulties in risk mitigation investments is that benefits are by nature uncertain. In this context, the standard approach … relying on the average value of benefits may provide an incomplete picture of the efficiency of the risk mitigation project … under consideration. This paper presents a probabilistic cost-benefit analysis relying on a catastrophe risk model. It …

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How much is an ecosystem worth? : assessing the economic value of conservation

2005

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Will the Kyoto Protocol affect growth in Russia?

Lecocq, Franck - 2004

higher than the Kyoto target, thereby putting much-needed growth at risk, Lecocq and Shalizi revisit the discussion on the …

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