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Poland's capital markets can play a crucial supporting role to the ongoing economic development and efficient … also be essential to provide adequate investment and risk management vehicles to much needed long-term savings. While …
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Micro and small enterprise (MSME) insolvency is particularly likely to impact not only the business, but also the … frequently in the context of corporate insolvency. This report refines and expands on the earlier deliberations of the Insolvency … and Creditor or Debtor Regimes Task Force (ICR Task Force) regarding the optimal approaches for treating MSME insolvency …
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In the last three years, household debt has risen by a third as disposable income declined. Declining interest rates, ease of access to credit for consumers and poorly regulated microfinance lending practices led to fast growth in consumer debt. Consumer lending in the banking and microfinance...
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The World Bank Group assessed the insolvency and creditor/debtor regimes ('ICR') of Bulgaria pursuant to the joint IMF … rather comprehensive but in practice insolvency proceedings are not working effectively. This report tries to contribute to …
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Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are among the largest commercial users of insolvency systems. MSMEs are a … insolvencies. However, there are a very few specialized legal regimes for MSME insolvency; most jurisdictions treat MSME … challenges of MSME insolvency; and considers if existing international standards are sufficient to address MSME insolvency …
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Bangladesh has maintained its robust growth performance. Exports and remittances have been buoyant. Agriculture had bumper harvests. Overall inflation has slowed as decelerating food inflation offset a pickup in non-food inflation. Monetary expansion has been short of target as private sector...
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This is a companion to the Global Economic Prospects 2010. Most commodity prices reached historical highs in mid-2008, giving rise to the longest and broadest commodity boom of the post-WWII period. Apart from strong and sustained economic growth, the boom was fueled by numerous factors...
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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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in European Union (EU) Member States (MS), analyze the financial instruments in place to manage this risk and identify … catastrophe risk models, one developed by JBA Risk Management (JBA) for fluvial and surface water flood, and one by the Global … Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM) for seismic risk. The report provides, (i) an indication of future losses for each country; (ii …
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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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