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This paper uses data across 365 corridors to document time and country variation in remittance fees and explore factors predicting variation in remittance fees. We document a general reduction in such fees over the past decade although the goal of fees below 3 percent has not been met yet in...
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infrastructure, human capital, and insitutions, are. By analyzing disaggregate FDI data, the paper establishes that, while there is … financing and human capital constraints, and less by infrastructure and institutional constraints, than is vertical FDI. …
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China’s rapid credit expansion in 2009–10 brought local government financing platforms (LGFPs) into the spotlight. This paper discusses their function, reasons behind their recent expansion, and risks they are posing to the financial sector, local governments, and sovereign balance...
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This paper looks at the empirical record whether big infrastructure and public capital drives have succeeded in …
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This paper presents a model to assess the efficiency of the capital structure in public-private partnerships (PPP). A main argument supporting the PPP approach for investment projects is the transfer of know-how from the private partner to the public entity. The paper shows how different...
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reducing costs of doing business, improving financial access, and developing infrastructure, could stimulate corporate …
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Government spending on infrastructure has recently increased sharply in many emerging-market economies. This paper … examines the mechanism through which public infrastructure spending affects the dynamics of the real exchange rate. Using a two … intensity of private capital in production, and (iv) the relative productivity of public infrastructure. In deriving these …
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context, the paper highlights the need for fiscal policies to address infrastructure gaps, stimulate private consumption and … public spending rather than increasing borrowing. Supporting structural reforms, aiming to stimulate private infrastructure …
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This paper examines the impact of ongoing cross-border integration of securities market infrastructure in the European …-tier regulatory framework for securities infrastructure in Europe entailing the creation of a centralized "federal" European …
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