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Central Bank Digital Currency : A Payments Perspective
World Bank - 2021
payments system (NPS) in virtually every country in the world. Recently, the issuance of central bank digital currency (CBDC …
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Central Bank Digital Currencies for Cross-border Payments : A Review of Current Experiments and Ideas
World Bank - 2021
Over the years, the demand for seamless and inexpensive cross-border payments has grown in parallel with growth in … international e-commerce, remittances and tourism. Yet, cross-border payments have not kept pace with the intensive modernization …-border payments, with a view to reducing the inefficiencies and rents discussed above by shortening the payments value chain. This …
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Central Bank Digital Currency : Background Technical Note
World Bank - 2021
implications of CBDC for monetary policy, financial stability, financial intermediation, payments and settlements, financial …
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Microfinance in South Asia : Toward Financial Inclusion for the Poor
World Bank - 2006
In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as...
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Russian Federation Financial Sector Assessment Program : Financial Inclusion
World Bank - 2016
underserved, as does the available range and quality of financial products and services. The main mode for retail payments is … regular government payments or salaries. Most credit and deposit-taking activity still occurs among the middle-high income …
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Financial Inclusion in Brazil : Building on Success
World Bank - 2014
evaluation and increase risk for lenders; and competition issues (as with mobile payments and the so-called no-surcharge-rule on …
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El Salvador Financial Sector Assessment Program Update : Financial Inclusion
World Bank (contributor);  … - World Bank - 2010
Financial service provision has expanded since the 2004 financial sector assessment program (FSAP) update, but access to financial services can expand greatly through mobile banking. An estimated 47 percent of adults in El Salvador have deposit accounts at a regulated financial institution,...
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El Salvador Financial Sector Assessment Program Development Module : Financial Inclusion
World Bank - 2016
This Technical Note was prepared in the context of a World Bank Financial Sector Assessment Program mission in the Republic of El Salvador in March 2016. Despite the challenging economic environment, El Salvador has made significant strides towards a more inclusive financial sector. However, El...
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Financial dollarization and central bank credibility
Cowan, Kevin - 2003
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The World Bank Annual Report 2004 : Volume 2. Financial Statements
World Bank - 2013
This Annual Report, which covers the period from July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004, has been prepared by the Executive Directors of both the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA) in accordance with the respective bylaws of...
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