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The World Bank's Early Reflections on Development : A Development Institution or a Bank?
Alacevich, Michele - 2012
Until the late 1960s, the World Bank presented itself as an institution devoted to making sound and directly productive …
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Strengthening the Governance and Performance of State-Owned Financial Institutions
Scott, David H. - 2012
Corporate governance arrangements define the responsibilities, authorities and accountabilities of owners, boards of directors, and executive managers of a company. Good corporate governance is as important for state financial institutions as for private sector companies. Many of the problems...
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Measuring the Performance and Achievement of Social Objectives of Development Finance Institutions
Francisco, Manuela; Mascar??, Yira; Mendoza, Juan Carlos - 2012
This paper develops and tests a proposed methodology that puts forward a new integrated method for evaluating the performance of development finance institutions. This methodology applies assessment criteria that take into account both the social objective that the development finance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552290
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Microfinance Tradeoffs : Regulation, Competition, and Financing
Cull, Robert; Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Morduch, Jonathan - 2012
This paper describes important trade-offs that microfinance practitioners, donors, and regulators navigate. Drawing evidence from large, global surveys of microfinance institutions, the authors find a basic tension between meeting social goals and maximizing financial performance. For example,...
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Sovereign Ratings in the Post-Crisis World : An Analysis of Actual, Shadow and Relative Risk Ratings
Basu, Kaushik; De, Supriyo; Ratha, Dilip - 2014
ratings after controlling for changes in the world weighted average rating. When relative ratings in 2012 are compared with … the first half of 2008, the world average rating is found to be weaker because of the financial crisis. The relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560751
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The 2007 Meltdown in Structured Securitization : Searching for Lessons, Not Scapegoats
Caprio, Gerard, Jr.; Demirg????-Kunt, Asl??; Kane, Edward J. - 2012
supervision in every country in the world. The paper concludes by identifying reforms that would improve incentives by increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552219
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Bailing Out the World's Poorest
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
developing world, with some countries, and some people, more vulnerable than others. It also threatens to have lasting impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552231
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The Developing World is Poorer Than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - 2012
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world, lived …
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Is the Developing World Catching up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio; De Hoyos, Rafael E.; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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Who Are the Net Food Importing Countries?
Ng, Francis; Aksoy, M. Ataman - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to update the information on net food importing countries, using different definitions of food, separating countries by their level of income, whether they are in conflict and whether they are significant oil exporters. The study also estimates the changes in net...
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