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Central Bank Digital Currencies for Cross-border Payments : A Review of Current Experiments and Ideas
World Bank Group - 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 that has characterized domestic payment services...
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Central Bank Digital Currency : Background Technical Note
World Bank Group - 2021
In recent years, due to innovations in technology, the concept of digital currency has emerged out of the desire of some private entities to replicate specific properties of cash in the digital space. Digital currencies have been issued in various electronic formats and value propositions, and...
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Central Bank Digital Currency : A Payments Perspective
World Bank Group - 2021
Payment and settlement systems and services have become vital components of the economic life of contemporary societies. Over the last decades, they have gone through several waves of reforms that have changed the landscape of the national payments system (NPS) in virtually every country in the...
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The National Payment Systems Oversight Framework for the Maldives Monetary Authority
World Bank Group - 2019
This report aims at assisting Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) to establish an effective oversight framework to monitor the different payment and settlement systems, payment instruments and payment service providers in the Maldives. The framework for oversight is based on the Bank for...
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Republic of Belarus - Transparency of Monetary Policy and Banking Supervision : Technical Note
World Bank Group - 2006
transparency in monetary policy. The transparency analysis was based on a review of relevant laws and regulations and the … International Monetary Fund (IMF s) code of good practices on transparency in monetary and financial policies without carrying out a … Program (FSAP) mission to Belarus that took place in November 2004. NBRB displays a satisfactory degree of transparency in …
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Central Bank Reserve Management Practices : Insights into Public Asset Management
World Bank Group - 2021
The World Bank Treasury's Reserve Advisory and Management Partnership (RAMP) conducted its third survey on reserve management practices in 2021. One hundred and nineteen central banks, from different regions, income groups, and reserve levels, contributed to the survey, which included questions...
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Macedonia
World Bank Group - 2014
The Country Opinion Survey in Macedonia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Macedonia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral and bilateral agencies, media, academia,...
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Russia Economic Report, No. 46, December 2021 : Amidst Strong Economic Recovery, Risks Stemming from COVID-19 and Inflation Build
World Bank Group - 2021
Russia saw strong growth in 2021, with momentum weakening late in the year. Growth will slow as Russia battles COVID-19 and elevated inflation. Globally, environmental sustainability is becoming central to the economic agenda. The challenge for Russia is to fundamentally transform its economic...
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Debt Management Performance Assessment : Kyrgyz Republic
World Bank Group - 2016
The Kyrgyz Republic became a parliamentary democracy in 2010 following political turmoil and ethnic unrest. Kyrgyz Republic's economy has been resilient; however, the growth momentum of the past few years has been declining due to the difficult global economic environment and regional conflicts'...
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Enhancing Debt Transparency by Strengthening Public Debt Transaction Disclosure Practices
World Bank Group - 2022
Improving debt transparency is critical for promoting debt sustainability and creditworthiness assessments, increasing … of debt transparency, the costs associated with the lack of it, and its benefits, are extensively discussed in recent … World Bank literature. One of the key factors that limits debt transparency as it relates to public disclosure and the …
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