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This paper studies the relationship between banks' holdings of domestic sovereign securities and credit growth to the private sector in emerging market and developing economies. Higher banks' holdings of government debt are associated with a lower credit growth to the private sector and with a...
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This paper examines the extent to which firms in selected MENA countries reported being constrained by the business environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance. The results suggest that small firms in MENA faced...
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It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial sector reforms in 1992. Using annual data on scheduled commercial banks for the period 1996-2004, the paper evaluates the validity of this claim in the Indian context. The...
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Do financial sector reforms necessarily result in expansion of credit to the private sector? How does bank ownership … Indian experience with liberalization of the financial sector to inform this debate. Using bank-level data from 1991-2007, we …
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commercial banks. The analysis focuses on examining the behavior and determinants of bank intermediation costs and profitability …
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The easing of controls on interest rates has led to higher interest rate volatility in India. Hence, there is a need to …
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We examine how the development of the digital infrastructure known as the 'India Stack'-including an interoperable … of financial services. While each individual component of the India Stack is important, we argue that its key overarching … synergies across the layers of the Stack. Until recently, a large share of India's population lacked access to formal banking …
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continue have a dominant share in the market. Contractual savings systems have been improved, but pension funds in India are …
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