costs and provisioning for loan losses remain high compared to some other economies. Profitability of the aggregate banking … context of competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational … system has increased in the face of lower interest spreads. A highly concentrated banking system could be an indicator of …

The corporate scorecard provides information on the Bank's overall performance and the results achieved by its clients … direction for the Bank's work. These high-level outcomes cannot be attributed directly to the Bank, because countries and their … highlights development results that countries have achieved with Bank support. Tier three indicators provide information on the …

Two ambitious goals guide World Bank Group actions: (i) ending extreme poverty by reducing the percentage of people … burdens future generations will inherit. The World Bank Group is committed to supporting countries in the achievement of these … goals with a combination of financing, knowledge, and convening services. The World Bank Corporate Scorecard provides …

The Corporate Scorecard is designed to provide a snapshot of the Bank???s overall performance, including its business … made and areas that need attention. The World Bank has comprehensive systems??? on which it continuously improves … Association (IDA13) in 2002, the Bank became the first multilateral development institution to use a framework with quantitative …

informal, and the impact of normalization on their profitability. The analysis finds that the impact of tax registration on … profitability depends on firm size and the ability to issue tax receipts, and presents a set of prioritized policy implications for …

better understand the reasons why firms are informal and the impact of formalization on their profitability, in order to … registration on profitability depends on firm size and the ability to issue tax receipts. The smallest and the largest firms in the …

competition and innovation, or that they are more sensitive to foreign presence. "--World Bank web site …

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"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm … particular. "--World Bank web site …