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corporate sector. The Credit Bureau, maintained by the Association of Serbian Banks, also discloses dramatic increases in …
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Thailand is widely considered progressive among developing and middle-income countries regarding the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex (LGBTI+) people. Thailand has made progress in developing legislation to stop LGBTI+ discrimination, including adopting the Gender...
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channels through which credit affects growth on the micro-level is scant. Using data from a cross section of Bulgarian firms …, the authors estimate the impact of access to credit (as proxied by indicators of whether firms have access to a credit or …' past growth to instrument for access to credit. The authors find credit to be positively and strongly associated with total …
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"The authors study the effect of financial crises on trade credit in a sample of 890 firms in six emerging economies …. They find that although provision of trade credit increases right after the crisis, it consequently collapses in the … short-term debt and low cash stocks and cash flows) are more likely to reduce trade credit provided to their customers. This …
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"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important … aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending … presumably face sizable transaction costs obtaining external credit. The author develops and estimates a model based on limited …
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"The authors explore the relationship between transaction costs and generalized trust. Using panel data from 2,100 households in 135 rural communities of the Philippines, the paper shows that where transaction costs are reduced (proxied by road construction), there is an increase in generalized...
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This book examines progress within Russia's financial sector and provides a road map for promoting dialogue on and implementing improvements. The book is intended to complement and support the joint strategic plan of Russia's government and Central Bank for banking reform, a plan that includes...
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The Lebanon Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies overthe past six months. It also presents findings from recent World Bank work on Lebanon. It places them in a longer-term and global context, and assesses the implications of these developments and other...
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