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Who benefits and how much? : how gender affects welfare impacts of a booming textile industry
Nicita, Alessandro - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523406
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Vertical and Regional Integration to Promote African Textiles and Clothing Exports : A Close Knit Family?
World Bank - 2012
result, Africa as a whole remains a net importer of textiles and clothing even though it is a net exporter of cotton. The … (until 2008) to protect their domestic textiles and clothing industries. These safeguards provide a brief opportunity for sub …-Saharan African producers to integrate their textiles and clothing industries both domestically and regionally. …
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Expanding bank outreach through retail partnerships : correspondent banking in Brazil
Kumar, Anjali (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522325
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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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Estimating household responses to trade reforms : net consumers and net producers in rural Mexico
Porto, Guido Gustavo - 2005
"This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing countries. It focuses on consumption and income responses: when price reforms take place, households modify consumption and production decisions and local labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522505
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The economic consequences of health shocks
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
"While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522556
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Financial Consumer Protection and Fintech : An Overview of New Manifestations of Consumer Risks and Emerging Regulatory Approaches
World Bank - 2022
This note provides: (1) an overview of new manifestations of consumer risks that are significant and cross-cutting across four key fintech products: digital microcredit, P2PL, investment-based crowdfunding, and e-money; and (2) examples of emerging regulatory approaches to target such risks....
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The Role of Consumer Consent in Open Banking : Financial Inclusion Support Framework
World Bank - 2021
Open banking schemes provide consumers with more choice and new financial products and services through the use of technology, particularly application programing interfaces (API's). The main objective of this paper is to provide guidance on how to implement consumer consent protocols to access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255186
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Public Sector-operated Price-comparison Websites : Case Studies and Good Practices
World Bank - 2013
This technical note is intended to provide regulators with concrete, practical information on operating price-comparison websites and the strategic considerations necessary to take into account when designing such sites. The technical note examines price-comparison websites operated by public...
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Urban land policy : issues and opportunities
Dunkerley, Harold B. (ed.);  … - 1983
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