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Multilateral development banks and global public policy networks: Speculations for the next century

Rischard, Jean-François - In: EIB Papers 3 (1998) 2, pp. 82-88

- the advent of a radically different world economy, and the explosion of the world's population. As these forces are … unleashed, the world's nation-states - weakened by their increasingly unhelpful territorial and hierarchical constructs - will …

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Stock markets, banks, and economic development: Theory and evidence

Beck, Thorsten - In: EIB Papers 8 (2003) 1, pp. 37-54

This paper discusses the different functions that capital markets and banks have in economic development, and it reviews the debate about marketbased vs. bank-based financial systems. Using data for a sample of 40 countries over the period 1975-98, the paper then shows that variation in both...

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