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Key Factors for Successful Development of Offshore Wind in Emerging Markets
World Bank Group - 2021
Offshore wind holds tremendous promise for many emerging markets as a large-scale, clean, reliable form of new electricity generation with the potential to stimulate valuable economic benefits. However, developing a new offshore wind sector in an emerging market is no easy task. Decision makers...
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Listing State-Owned Enterprises in Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Success and Failure
World Bank Group - 2021
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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What Does Digital Money Mean for Emerging Market and Developing Economies? : Fintech and the Future of Finance Flagship Technical Note
World Bank Group - 2022
Physical cash and commercial bank money are dominant vehicles for retail payments around the world, including in … crypto-assets, stable coins, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). It assesses the supply and demand factors that may … between token-based and account-based money matters less than the distinction between central bank and non-central bank money …
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Getting Down to Earth : Are Satellites Reliable for Measuring Air Pollutants That Cause Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?
World Bank Group - 2022
Outdoor air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide, the majority of which are caused by exposure to fine particulate matter (or PM2.5) air pollution. Most of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Reducing PM2.5 air pollution is thus crucial for...
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Environmental Flows for Hydropower Projects : Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets
World Bank Group - 2018
This Good Practice Handbook is designed to provide guidance to practitioners on taking rigorous and consistent approaches to assess hydropower project impacts on downstream river ecosystems and people, and determine their Environmental Flows (EFlows) commitments. The Handbook outlines a good...
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Promoting the Use of Capital Markets for Infrastructure Financing : Lessons for Securities Markets Regulators in Emerging Market Economies
World Bank Group - 2017
This Note provides guidance to securities markets regulators in emerging market economies (EMEs) about key regulatory issues that could affect the issuance of debt instruments for infrastructure financing over which they have some control. The Note focuses on three areas (placement regime,...
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Promoting Competition in the Distribution of Mutual Funds : Lessons for Securities Markets Regulatory Authorities in Emerging Market Economies
World Bank Group - 2017
This Policy Note focuses on distribution channels, the role they play in product diversification and costs, and how regulation can promote competition in mutual funds (MFs) distribution. In many emerging market economics (EMEs) where both the capital markets and the MFs have reached certain...
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Product Design and Distribution : Emerging Regulatory Approaches for Retail Banking Products
World Bank Group - 2019
This note discusses emerging international approaches for regulating design and distribution of retail banking products. Such products include deposit, credit, and payment products, being the products that new financial consumers typically acquire first. Policy makers are finding that financial...
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Capital Markets and SMEs in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies : Can They Go the Distance?
World Bank Group - 2020
. Bank financing has been the traditional source of external financing to SMEs; however, since the global financial crisis … solutions. The report looks at both indirect and direct mechanisms for SME financing, such as capital markets solutions, lending …
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Strengthening Safeguards in Bank Resolution Frameworks in Emerging and Developing Countries
World Bank Group - 2020
the rationale and intent of each safeguard and how to implement them to support an efficient bank resolution framework … section four, section five aims to provide guidance for designing sound safeguards in bank resolution frameworks of emerging … reflecting the authors' review work and experiences and does not reflect in any way the views of the World Bank or IMF or their …
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