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John J. McCloy, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, spoke about the loans granted … by the Bank for European reconstruction and trade promotion. The Bank is currently in discussions about development … stability is necessary for trade growth. He concluded by saying that a prosperous world would be possible only if there was a …
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John. J. McCloy, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, discussed staff recruitment … and the development of Bank policies. Loan requirements emphasize productive projects of reconstruction and development … stability. The Bank is in a position to help facilitate financial reforms. McCloy has been in close contact with the American …
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Cross-border banking in emerging markets and developing economies has expanded across most World Bank regions and has … become large relative to some home and host economies. This paper analyzes recent trends of bank activities of financial … to maximize the benefits of international financial integration while mitigating the risks. This balance calls for …
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Committee guidance on the governance of bank subsidiaries, and 2) a selection of recommendations from a past International …
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-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, and Peter Van Oudheusden (World Bank Policy Research Paper 7255). It provides 41 country … published in 2015 in "The Global Findex Database 2014: Measuring Financial Inclusion around the World?" by Asli Demirguc …
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Despite the commitments of the development community toward broader access to finance, financial inclusion rates worldwide are rather unsatisfactory. To date, around two billion adults do not have access to basic financial services such as savings and checking accounts. Attempting to bridge such...
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the characterization of international banks as sources of credit instability, and suggest that foreign bank entry can …-border credit supply especially to weaker firms. However, greater foreign bank presence in the borrower country appears to reduce … strength of bank regulation and supervision, exchange rate flexibility, and restrictions on capital flows. The findings qualify …
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countries. The results reveal that bank-oriented financial systems boost the size of the export sector more than market …
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Working with a private bank in Ghana, this study examines the impacts of a commitment savings product designed to help … clients taking repeated overdrafts break their debt cycles. Overall, the product significantly increased savings with the bank …
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This technical note is intended to contribute to understanding of how to leverage open source software (OSS) for global public goods particularly in resource-constrained environments. The aim is to enable a more deliberate approach to building information systems that can serve as a global...
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