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"Regulation is purportedly enacted to serve specific social purposes. In reality, however, it follows a more complex political economy process, where legitimate social goals are mixed with the objectives of particular interest groups. Whatever its justification and objectives, regulation can...
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"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …
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This Education Sector Study (ESS) is the World Bank's response to the need for a comprehensive study of Turkey … ESS is to provide an assessment of current challenges to the education system in Turkey and identify policy options that …
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policy issue in Turkey. This synthesis report presents the results of a series of empirical studies of the impact of a labor …
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In February 2001, Turkey was hit by its deepest economic and financial crisis since World War II, prompting a severe … to profitability, Turkey urgently needs to implement a comprehensive corporate restructuring program. Moreover …
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"The authors propose a "bottom up" approach to link public investment programs with a class of macro models recently developed to quantify Strategy Papers for Human Development (SPAHD) in low-income countries. The methodology involves establishing constant-price projections of investment outlays...
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Policymakers in developing countries face multiple challenges related to climate change. To provide policymakers with reliable recommendations on a variety of climate related policies, the WBG has a diverse and complementary set of models. The analytics range from evaluating the aggregate,...
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