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Russian Federation Financial Sector Assessment Program : Insurance Sector Technical Note
World Bank - 2016
Russian insurance industry ranked 27th in the world. Non-life insurance premium accounted for 89 percent of GPW while life …This technical note covers the insurance sector supervised by the CBR. The analysis was carried out as part of the 2016 … during the mission. The assessment has been supported by discussions with the CBR and the insurance market participants. the …
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Can Interventions Spur Development of the Insurance Sector? : From Examples of World Bank Projects
World Bank Group - 2020
an objective view of the impact of FIRST funded projects on the growth in insurance markets as measured by insurance … have led to a change in the insurance premiums as a percentage of GDP. The paper showcases in section three, the dynamic … view and multipronged approaches to the insurance market development by highlighting country case studies, with different …
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Slow rockets and fast feathers or the link between exchange rates and exports : a case study for Pakistan
Brun, Martín; Gambetta, Juan Pedro; Varela, Gonzalo - 2020
Export responses to real exchange rate (RER) depreciations in Pakistan are lower than those to appreciations. This paper empirically documents this asymmetric response using macro-level data. It then relies on a disaggregated export product-level data set for 2003-17 to test, within a panel...
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Is 3D printing a threat to global trade? : the trade effects you didn’t hear about : World Development Report 2020 background paper
Freund, Caroline L.; Mulabdic, Alen; Ruta, Michele - 2019
In the mid-2000s, the production of hearing aids shifted almost entirely to 3D printing. Using difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods, this paper examines the effects of this shift on trade flows. The analysis finds that trade increased roughly 60 percent following the...
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Latin American growth : a trade perspective
Torre, Augusto de la; Ize, Alain - 2019
down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051845
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Small Firm Death in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
Small firms are an important source of income for the poor in developing countries, and the target of many interventions designed to help them grow. But there is no systematic information on the failure or death of such firms. The paper puts together 16 panel surveys from 12 different developing...
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Better policies from policy-selective aid?
Annen, Kurt; Knack, Stephen F. - 2019
countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051940
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Three macroeconomic trends around the onset of armed conflict in developing economies
Lederman, Daniel; Rojas, Claudio J. - 2018
cover episodes of conflict from around the world and study the evolution of these variables during the five years prior to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002364
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Investing in human capital : what can we learn from the World Bank's portfolio data?
Gatti, Roberta; Mohpal, Aakash - 2019
This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition … support. The results are robust to controlling for non-World Bank aid, as well as various alternative specifications and … estimation samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004776
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Transformational climate finance : donors' willingness to support deep and transformational greenhouse gas emissions reductions in lower-income countries
Strand, Jon - 2020
This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
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