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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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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
payments system (NPS) in virtually every country in the world. Recently, the issuance of central bank digital currency (CBDC …
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Republic of Belarus - Transparency of Monetary Policy and Banking Supervision : Technical Note
World Bank Group - 2006
formal principle-by-principle assessment. It was conducted as part of the joint IMF-World Bank Financial Sector Assessment …
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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 … represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and World Bank and its affiliated organizations … or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent …
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Boosting Financial Resilience to Disaster Shocks : Good Practices and New Frontiers
World Bank Group - 2019
Governments face growing contingent liabilities from disasters as they tend to shoulder a significant share of disaster response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing number of countries are developing financial...
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Solutions toEnd Poverty ona Livable Planet - Insights from World Bank CountryClimate and Development Reportscovering 42 economies
World Bank Group - 2023
The world faces a triple crisis of three interconnected issues-development, climate, and nature― and current levels of … World Bank launched the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) in 2022. This core diagnostic tool aims to help … global climate change challenge. The first set of CCDRs covered only 10 percent of the world’s tropical forests, but the …
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Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2023 : In the Grip of a New Crisis
World Bank Group - 2023
Lebanon is hit by yet another crisis: the spillover effects of the conflict in the Middle East. While the country remains mired in political and institutional vacuum, and a crippling socioeconomic crisis for over four years, it has now been hit by another large shock: fear that the current...
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Cambodia Economic Update, April 2016 : Improving Macroeconomic and Financial Resilience
World Bank Group - 2016
While remaining robust, growth in 2015 eased slightly to 7.0 percent, slightly below the 7.1 percent achieved in 2014. The performance of the garment sector improved in 2015, while signs of economic moderation and weakness persisted in the tourism and agriculture sectors, respectively....
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