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Optimal devaluations
Hevia, Constantino - 2009
"According to the conventional wisdom, when an economy enters a recession and nominal prices adjust slowly, the monetary authority should devalue the domestic currency to make the recession less severe. The reason is that a devaluation of the currency lowers the relative price of non-tradable...
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Mexico : New Technology-Enabled Channels to Scale Up Financial Access
World Bank - 2014
This is a technical note for the 2011 the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) carried out in Mexico. The focus of this document is the new technology-enabled channels to scale up financial access being employed. Key issues such as a pro-inclusion policy environment and harnessing...
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Expanding bank outreach through retail partnerships : correspondent banking in Brazil
Kumar, Anjali (contributor) - 2006
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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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Korea : policy-issues for long-term development ; the report of a mission sent to the Republic of Korea by the World Bank
Hasan, Parvez (contributor); Rao, D. C. (contributor) - 1979
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The regional dimension of North-South trade-related r&d spillover
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009
"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed based on industry-specific research and development...
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Firms' environmental performance : does news matter ?
Nlandu Mamingi (contributor) - 2006
"The empirical literature on environmental performance or compliance has followed two strands: one based on the impact of formal regulation as a means of inducing better environmental performance, and another centered on the role of informal regulation which mainly emphasizes the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522172
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Health systems in East Asia : what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian tigers ?
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan … (China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …. Experiences with diagnosis-related groups in Korea and Taiwan (China) point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects …
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Private participation in infrastructure projects in the Republic of Korea
Noumba Um, Paul - 2005
"In the aftermath of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis, the government of the Republic of Korea published a Private Participation in Infrastructure (PPI) Act to remove the main impediments to private investment in infrastructure sectors. The implementation of the Act was followed by a steady...
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Disclosure of environmental violations and the stock market in the Republic of Korea
Nlandu Mamingi (contributor) - 2004
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