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Financial Sector Assessment Program : Brazil - IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation
World Bank - 2013
The Comissao de Valores Mobiliarios - Brazil Securities Commission (CVM) has made substantial progress since the 2002 Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). In 2002 the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) assessment rated 8 principles fully implemented and 22...
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School meals, educational achievement, and school competition : evidence from a randomized evaluation
Kremer, Michael - 2005
Development Goals"--World Bank web site …
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COVID-19 in South Asia : An Unequal Shock, An Uncertain Recovery - Findings on Labor Market Impacts from Round 1 of the SAR COVID Phone Monitoring Surveys
World Bank - 2022
All countries across South Asia, faced with the rising risks of COVID-19 infection rates, implemented severe economic lockdowns in early 2020 with varying frequencies and time periods. While the exact nature and duration of these lockdowns varied across countries in the South Asia Region (SAR),...
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Improving credit information, bank regulation, and supervision : on the role and design of public credit registries
Majnoni, Giovanni (contributor) - 2004
"Powell, Mylenko, Miller, and Majnoni analyze how data in public credit registries can be used both to strengthen bank …, including in calculations of credit risk for capital and provisioning requirements, or as a check on a bank's internal ratings … the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to analyze the effects of bank capital regulation …
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Bank competition and financial stability
Berger, Allen N. - 2008
"Under the traditional "competition-fragility" view, more bank competition erodes market power, decreases profit … margins, and results in reduced franchise value that encourages bank risk taking. Under the alternative "competition …-stability" view, more market power in the loan market may result in greater bank risk as the higher interest rates charged to loan …
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Financial dependence, banking sector competition, and economic growth
Claessens, Stijn - 2005
"The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated … economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper … Claessens and Laeven first estimate for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization …
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What drives bank competition? : some international evidence
Claessens, Stijn - 2003
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Financial Sector Assessment Program : Malaysia - Assessment of Observance of the CPSS-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures
World Bank - 2013
central bank and the securities commission. The Capital Market and Services Act 2007 (CMSA) provides the overall framework for …
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Financial Sector Assessment Program : Saudi Arabia - CPSS Core Principles for Systematically Important Payment Systems
World Bank - 2013
The present document is the assessment of the systemically important payment systems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) based on the CPSS Core Principles for Systemically Important Payment Systems (CPSIPS). The document also contains an analysis of some developmental issues related to the...
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