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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 … supervision and to improve the quality of credit analysis by financial institutions. Empirical tests using public credit registry … empirical tests confirm the value of the data for credit risk evaluation and provide insights regarding its use in supervision …
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Capital requirements, screening and interlinked sharecropping and credit contracts
Braverman, Avishay; Guasch, J. Luis - 1982
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The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem
Didier, Tatiana - 2009
"The current account can be understood as the outcome of investment decisions made by domestic and foreign investors. These decisions can be decomposed into a portfolio rebalancing and a portfolio growth component. This paper provides empirical evidence of the importance of portfolio rebalancing...
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Country portfolios
Ventura, Jaume (contributor) - 2004
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An alternative unifying measure of welfare gains from risk-sharing
Auffret, Philippe - 2001
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Immunization
World Bank - 2012
Immunization deserves high priority, especially in developing countries, for three reasons: vaccine-preventable diseases, disproportionately affect the poorest fifth of the population; immunization is among the most cost-effective interventions, and has a major impact in reducing the burden of...
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
De Mel, Suresh J. - 2008
"This paper analyzes data from a randomized experiment on mean returns to capital in Sri Lankan micro-enterprises. The findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero for women. The authors explore different explanations for the lower...
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Taking the bad with the good : volatility of foreign portfolio investment and financial constraints of small firms
Knill, April M. - 2005
"The author examines the impact of the volatility of foreign portfolio investment on the financial constraints of small firms. Using a dataset of over 195,000 firm-year observations across 53 countries, she examines the impact of foreign portfolio investment instability on capital issuance and...
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Credit constraints as a barrier to technology adoption by the poor : lessons from South Indian small-scale fishery
Gine, Xavier - 2005
"It is generally recognized that the adoption of a new technology plays a fundamental role in the development process. However, the benefits from the introduction of the technology may be unevenly distributed among the population, especially if the markets do not function properly. While the...
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