difficult to establish otherwise. "--World Bank web site … traditional, institutional based, but will need to resemble that used in other network industries. Furthermore, with globalization … the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) process and the disciplines of the World Trade Organization. GATS can be …

the alleviation of firms' financing constraints. "--World Bank web site …"The authors (1) present new indicators of banking sector penetration across 99 countries based on a survey of bank …

banks, ministries of finance, major multilateral organizations, and many departments of the World Bank. …

banks, ministries of finance, major multilateral organizations, and many departments of the World Bank. …

likely due to placing nonperforming loans into residual entities, leaving "good" privatized banks."--World Bank web site … bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same …