strengthen countries' financial systems"--World Bank web site … governments around the world as monitors of their self-owned banks. Countries should build on this potential for market discipline … the Finance Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to provide research on what works to …

World Bank and the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), along with major fund managers, are formulating sets …With the recent stock market frauds in markets around the world such as the Madoff case in the U.S. and the recent … poor job of policing the complex world of finance and that the greater part of the task will be left to self policing on …

transparency and accountability in government and industry alike. "--World Bank web site … supervision in every country in the world. The paper concludes by identifying reforms that would improve incentives by increasing …

conducive to crisis can also be associated with more unequal societies."--World Bank web site …

the policies to forestall them. The paper concludes by identifying directions for future research. "--World Bank web site …"A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in contemporary …

thus dampens the negative effect that deposit insurance has on banks' risk taking. "--World Bank web site …"There is a wide cross-country variation in the institutional structure of bank failure resolution, including the role … scheme are more stable and less likely to become insolvent. Involvement of the deposit insurer in bank failure resolution …