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New Landscape, New Challenges : Structural Change and Regulation in the U.S. Financial Sector
Bhatia, Ashok Vir - 2007
Given the rapid evolution of the U.S. financial sector and attendant regulatory challenges, this paper explores ways to fine-tune U.S. oversight arrangements. It surveys the financial landscape, separating a highly regulated, multi-business, and (in terms of relative asset holdings) shrinking...
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Manufacturing jobs and inequality : why is the U.S. experience different?
Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2019
We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …
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Supply chains and port congestion around the world
Komaromi, Andras; Cerdeiro, Diego A.; Liu, Yang - 2022
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Fintech in Latin America and the Caribbean : stocktaking
Berkmen, P.; Beaton, Kimberly; Gershenson, Dmitriy; … - 2019
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), financial technology has been growing rapidly and is on the agenda of many policy makers. Fintech provides opportunities to deepen financial development, competition, innovation, and inclusion in the region but also creates new and only partially...
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South Africa : the financial sector-sovereign nexus
Hesse, Heiko; Miyajima, Ken - 2022
Globally, financial institutions have increased their holdings of domestic sovereign debt, tightening the linkage between the health of the financial system and the level of sovereign debt, or the "financial sector-sovereign nexus," during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, the...
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Reinvigorating growth in Belize
Vasilʹev, D. S. - 2019
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Belize grew faster than its regional peers. By the mid-2000s, however, economic growth had slowed down to the regional average. A vicious circle of low growth and increasing public debt has been clouding Belize's outlook. This paper applies a growth diagnostic...
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Determinants of firm profitability in Colombia’s manufacturing sector : exchange rate or structural?
Griffin, Naomi N. - 2015
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How solid is economic growth in the East African community?
Gigineišvili, Nikoloz; Mauro, Paolo; Wang, Ke - 2014
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Structural transformation and tax efficiency
Cevik, Serhan; Gottschalk, Jan; Hutton, Eric; Jaramillo … - 2019
Structural transformation has resulted in an increasing share of services in aggregate value-added in advanced and developing countries across the world. We analyze the impact of this shift into services on countries' efficiency in collecting the value-added tax (VAT). The analysis is based on...
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Panama's growth prospects : determinants and sectoral perspectives
Beaton, Kimberly; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2017
This paper estimates medium-term potential growth for a country undergoing significant structural and secular changes. Our forward-looking framework, incorporating three analytical approaches for examining economic prospects, constitutes an important complement to typical backward-looking...
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