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-regional partnership between East Africa and South Asia seeking to integrate indigenous knowledge and practices into Bank supported … operations. The aim was to leverage the experience of IK good practices from South Asia into Bank supported projects in East … Asia and Africa for centuries; similarly, local healers have used medicinal plants in India and Tanzania to treat common …
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countries in Asia and Australasia, and Canada and the United Kingdom. The authors find that the institutional factors which most …
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In 2007-08 Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the central bank of Afghanistan, was in the process of reforming the financial sector. While some considerable advances have been made with respect to basic legislation, some central banking reform, the introduction of new currency, and the beginnings of a...
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This report is a full assessment of Brazil's compliance with the Insurance Core Principles (ICPs) of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), as adopted in October 2011. Regulation and supervision of the insurance industry in Brazil is largely the responsibility of the...
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The exposure of African financial sectors to global risks, including the likely fall-out of the on-going European debt crisis, continues to be limited. African financial sectors have received much recognition for their steady growth performance and resilience during and after the 2008 global...
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"This study discusses potential economic implications for Nigeria of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union. It uses the World Bank's Tariff Reform Impact Simulation Tool to assess the effects of preferential tariff liberalization with respect to the European Union. The...
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"In defiance of its unimpressive track in structural reforms and relatively low foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, Romanian exports have experienced surprisingly strong performance in both EU and non-EU markets since 2000 after a four-year period of flat growth. While the first phase of...
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