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World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and subregional development banks in Latin America: Dynamics of a system of multilateral development banks

Prada, Fernando - 2012

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are an innovative institutional model to channel financing and knowledge to developing countries. In Latin America, the balance of forces between competition and collaboration among MDBs and other sources of development finance have formed a system that is...

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Financing Asia’s Infrastructure : Modes of Development and Integration of Asian Financial Markets

Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2010

Asia faces very large infrastructure funding demands, estimated at around US$750 billion per year for energy, transport, telecommunications, water, and sanitation during 2010-2020 (ADB/ADBI 2009). Asia has large savings, significant international reserves, and rapid accumulations of funds that...

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World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and Subregional Development Banks in Latin America : Dynamics of a System of Multilateral Development Banks

Prada, Fernando - 2012

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Regional Monetary Cooperation in Latin America

Ocampo, José Antonio - 2012

Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...

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Development trajectories, emission profile, and policy actions: Singapore

Doshi, Tilak K.; D'Souza, Neil Sebastian - 2013

Singapore is the most industrialized and urbanized country in Southeast Asia and is totally dependent on oil and … maintaining Singapore's competitiveness, improving energy security, and enhancing environmental sustainability. In this paper, we … discuss where Singapore stands with regard to its energy consumption and CO2 emissions, its energy policies to date, and those …

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Internationalization of tertiary education services in Singapore

Toh, Mun-Heng - 2012

to the internationalization stage of fulfilling Singapore's aspiration to be a global education hub. The state plays an …

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Financial Regulatory Harmonization in East Asia : Balancing Domestic and International Pressures for Corporate Governance Reforms

Carney, Richard W. - 2011

Is the harmonization of financial regulatory regimes possible in East Asia? Focusing on corporate governance, which many see as a critical part of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and which is also seen as unresponsive to calls for change, this paper argues that such harmonization is possible,...

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Examination of the Singapore Shift in Japan's Foreign Direct Investment in Services in ASEAN

Hamanaka, Shintaro - 2011

contrast, Japan's FDI in the services sectors in ASEAN is growing rapidly. The recent phenomenon of the Singapore Shift in … establish a commercial presence in Singapore, which they expect to be the hub of Southeast Asia, thereby enabling them to supply … services to the entire ASEAN region. The magnitude of the Singapore Shift varies for every services sub-sector. By comparing …

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Asian Tigers’ Choices : An Overview

Chow, Hwee Kwan - 2010

Singapore, calls into question the scope for recalibrating growth drivers towards domestic demand. Nonetheless, the …

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The Global Financial Crisis : Countercyclical Fiscal Policy Issues and Challenges in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore

Doraisami, Anita - 2011

, and Singapore. The findings point to a rich diversity in both the size and composition of fiscal stimulus and the …

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