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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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Korea Blockchain Ecosystem
World Bank Group - 2021
Emerging technology curation series aims to capture and share Korea experience and lessons learned in regard to exploration and adoption of emerging technologies like blockchain, AI, edge-computing, internet of things (IoT), 5G, et cetera Korea blockchain ecosystem is the first of the series and...
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Project Finance at the World Bank: An Overview of Policies and Instruments.
Benoit, P. - World Bank Group - 1996
are looking increasingly to the project finance structure to fund these operations. The World Bank has an array of … financial instruments to support these projects. This paper serves as an introductory working tool for the World Bank staff and … professionals outside the bank who are interested in the role of the World Bank in this area. …
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World Bank Lending for Small Enterprises 1989-1993.
Webster, L.M.; Riopelle, R.; Chidzero, A.M. - World Bank Group - 1996
The main objective of this report is to evaluate World Bank lending for small enterprises between FY89 and FY93 …
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Assessment of Corporate Sector Value and Vulnerability: Links to Exchange Rtae and Financial Crises.
Gray, D.F. - World Bank Group - 1999
This paper presents an innovative yet practical framework to assess corporate sector vulnerability and the links to exchange rates and financial crises that bridges the gap between corporate finance and macroeconomic analysis. This framework missing describing how changes in aggregate value of...
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2010 world investment and political risk
2010
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Dominican Republic Country Climate and Development Report
World Bank Group - 2023
The Dominican Republic has made significant progress in boosting economic growth and reducing poverty, but it still faces challenges to achieve inclusive and equitable development, increase productivity, and improve the competitiveness and sustainability of primary sectors like agriculture,...
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West Bank and Gaza Country Climate and Development Report
World Bank Group - 2023
This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for the West Bank and Gaza examines the social and macroeconomic impacts of climate change under three alternative scenarios that reflect different levels of climate action and divergent economic growth trajectories. The scenario analysis builds...
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