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This paper presents Detailed Assessment of the United States’s implementation of the International Organization of Securities Commissions’ Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation. The general preconditions for effective securities regulation in the United States are...
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This technical note analyses anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) in Iceland. Iceland's banking sector is comparatively small, and the geographical reach of cross-border payments activity is limited. The AML/CFT supervisory understanding and assessment of ML and...
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While domestic money laundering (ML) threats are well understood by the authorities, Ireland faces significant and increasing threats from foreign criminal proceeds. As a growing international financial center,1 Ireland is exposed to inherent transnational money laundering and terrorist...
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building capacity in macroeconomic analysis and forecasting in the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI). The MPI is …
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This Selected Issues paper focuses on decomposing the public-private sector wage differential in Lesotho. Lesotho's public wage bill is significantly higher than in other countries in the region. This paper takes a closer look at the civil service wage bill and examines public sector wage...
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The strategy adopted by Benin to strengthen its macroeconomic stability and promote private-investment-led growth has …
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The insurance sector is underdeveloped and has been inadequately supervised to date, as the regulator lacks the requisite independence, skills, and resources. The three public pension systems, which cover less than 10 percent of the active population, appear to be fiscally unsustainable. The...
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progress in strengthening the public financial management systems. The budget document provides comprehensive information …, and impact of public investment. Internal and external audit form the largest gaps in the present public financial … management system. Buy-in and long-term commitment from development partners will be essential. …
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The evaluation of the anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) regime of Australia was based on the Forty Recommendations 2003 and the Eight Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing 2001 of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), and was prepared using the...
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