data on access and use, and areas for further analysis to help identify the constraints to broadening access. "--World Bank …

the macroeconomy"--World Bank web site …

"Using a unique sample of net domestic product data for districts in India, I investigate the connection between … instrumentation strategy. The findings show that the growth of many districts in India is financially constrained due to lack of … alternative growth and production channels that are less finance intensive. "--World Bank web site …

Wang investigate the impact of foreign bank entry on the performance of domestic banks and how this relationship is … observation based on descriptive analysis is that the degree of openness to foreign bank entry varies a great deal, which is not … of liberalization, foreign bank entry has significantly improved domestic bank competitiveness in countries that …

obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … such measures to a set of bank characteristics. Their main results indicate that state-owned banks are less productive than … their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site …

"Powell, Mylenko, Miller, and Majnoni analyze how data in public credit registries can be used both to strengthen bank …, including in calculations of credit risk for capital and provisioning requirements, or as a check on a bank's internal ratings … the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the region to analyze the effects of bank capital regulation …