The value of funded pensions can depend critically on the funds' investment performance. To try and protect people … investment rules so that pension funds can reap the benefits from international diversification. …

"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …

critical to ramp up the institutional capacity and policies for a comprehensive disaster risk management program and to improve … coordination between oversight and implementing agencies through upgraded legislation with disaster risk reduction measures while … demonstrated that a whole-of-government approach is critical for meaningful results in a multi-sectoral engagement on disaster risk …

section provides a background on the trends in the volume and efficiency levels of public investment in Vietnam, which are … against its ambition for development. Section 3 analyzes the financial and opportunity costs and investment inefficiencies due …

commercial and investment climate factors that may affect enterprises' actual or perceived costs and risks. Both water and …