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This note analyzes the evolution of Credit Information Systems, including the emergence of new technologies that use alternative data in credit decisioning and the opportunities and risks associated with these trends. This paper also predicts the potential development effect of these disruptive...
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Access to finance is an essential component of economic development and job creation. A host of studies have shown a positive correlation between financial development and economic growth. Access to finance is also critical for larger corporations and conglomerates, which, given their size,...
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Across the world, governments use minimum wages, employment protection legislation, and other labor regulations that define the legal boundaries of employment to manage potential labor market imperfections. These imperfections include information asymmetry, uneven market power between employers...
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-resilient future, helping them to be better prepared to adapt to current and future climate impacts. The People's Republic of China is … coastline. As of 2018 China contained six cities with populations over 10 million …
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evidence-based advice to China, but China was always in the driver's seat in structuring the relationship and in determining … Conference, at Dalian, then with the China 2020 and China 2030 reports, and the subsequent series of flagships produced jointly … local level through demonstration projects and reform pilots that China studied, adapted, and later scaled. Finally, an …
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China made impressive progress in developing renewable energy to provide access to clean energy and electricity to its … pollution and mitigating the impact of climate change. Through that journey, China has accumulated a considerable amount of …
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In this report, the authors investigate state-owned enterprise (SOE) listings as a solution to promote local capital markets development. Thus, SOE listings can offer governments an enormous opportunity to kick-start the development of their local capital markets while achieving other divestment...
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China's recovery has broadened as economic activity has continued to normalize. Economic growth in China is projected … returns to trend growth. As China's recovery firms up, macroeconomic policies are expected to shift from accommodative to more … strength of the recovery in China and the rest of the world. Rising financial vulnerabilities, together with subdued …
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Lingyuan City in Liaoning Province, China, is a county level city with a population of around six hundred fifty … focuses on the experiences of Lingyuan City in China …
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China is a global leader in the use of ecological compensation ("eco-compensation")-fiscal transfers for environmental … and natural resources management. China is one of the most fiscally decentralized countries in the world, with 85 percent … impacts, and distills broad lessons from China for similar policies globally …
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