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Transportation services and infrastructure connect people, businesses, and places. They allow citizens to access opportunities, such as jobs, education, health services, recreation, and enable the movement and distribution of goods. As a result, transport services and infrastructure are key to...
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The development of a far reaching correspondent banking network is one of the key factors behind Brazil's success story in financial inclusion. Between 2005 and 2011, the number of correspondents approximately doubled to more than 160,000. The Central Bank encouraged financial institutions to...
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This note examines the implications of digital innovation for market structure and attendant policies, including financial and competition regulation. There have been several surveys of regulatory responses. This note takes a step back, to look at what the economic theory of banking and...
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The penetration level of the insurance and pension sectors in Malawi is low, but it seems adequate as compared with … inexistent and supervision is weak. An innovative pilot experience of weather micro-insurance is a good example of private … needs to take into account that possibilities to increase micro-insurance penetration may be affected by the level of …
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The Serbian insurance sector remains small and underdeveloped. Over the last three years, the market experienced very … forced many corporate policyholders to cancel their insurance, and fierce price competition among the growing number of … players. With consumption of 76 Pounds and 10 Pounds per capita for non-life and life insurance, respectively, Serbia lags …
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"The authors look at the depth of the financial sector in Bogota in terms of the "financial exclusion" of those, particularly poorer citizens, who operate without accounts in formal financial institutions-the unbanked. They begin with a review of the overall decline in financial intermediation...
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"This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of finance for economic well-being, provides data on the degree of use of basic financial services by households and firms across a sample of countries, assesses the desirability of more universal access, and overviews the macroeconomic, legal,...
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-term savings instruments, insurance products, and improved access to housing finance. The complexity and diversity of the needs … financial services (such as savings, credit, and insurance) that can help them manage their economic risks better. Chapter 5 …
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institutions (SOFIs) hold about 12 percent of banking sector assets and about 8 percent of insurance sector assets. SOFIs are key … subsidies to private intermediaries lending to certain sectors and subsides agricultural insurance premiums. In the past …
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