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Risks and Returns : Managing Financial Trade-Offs for Inclusive Growth in Europe and Central Asia
Gould, David Michael - 2017 - Online-Ausg.
bank credit expansion often funded by foreign capital. This model helped boost the financial inclusion of firms and … both bank and non-bank markets, enabling prudent financial inclusion. Most importantly, ECA falls significantly behind …
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Mali Financial Sector Assessment Program : The Banking System and Credit to the Economy
World Bank - 2015
banking services is limited. With the opening of a new bank in 2014, there are now 14 commercial banks operating in Mali …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644586
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Transforming finance in the Middle East and North Africa
Arezki, Rabah; Senbet, Lemma W. - 2020
implications for the destination, profitability, and quality of bank lending and the limited evolution of the financial system … development of fintechs. Entrenched incumbency of banks has limited the role of non-bank operators in fostering market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257125
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Bank Competition, Financial Dependence, and Economic Growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Caggiano, Giovanni - 2016
The relationship between bank competition, firm access to finance, and economic growth is a much debated topic in the … impact of bank competition on industry growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies. The results show that greater … competition. These results are robust to a variety of checks. The findings suggest that improving bank competition should be an …
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Are banks engines of export? : financial structures and export dynamics
Minetti, Raoul; Mulabdic, Alen; Ruta, Michele; Zhu, … - 2018
countries. The results reveal that bank-oriented financial systems boost the size of the export sector more than market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947504
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Does rainfall matter for economic growth? : evidence from global sub-national data (1990-2014)
Damania, Richard; Desbureaux, Sébastien; Zaveri, Esha - 2019
Much micro-econometric evidence suggests that precipitation has wide ranging impacts on vital economic indicators such as agricultural yields, human capital, and even conflict. And yet paradoxically most macro-econometric evidence (especially in the climate economy literature) finds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051944
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Uncertainty in ex-ante poverty and income distribution : insights from output growth and natural resource country typologies
Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019
This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022359
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Combining growth and gender diagnostics for the benefit of both
Ianchovichina, Elena; Leipziger, Danny M. - 2019
Women's economic empowerment is not a new issue; nevertheless, it continues to challenge governments and development assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking different languages when there is a huge space for them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022367
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Structural reforms to set the growth ambition
Rovo, Natasha - 2020
The effect of structural reforms on growth in Europe and Central Asia is assessed by looking separately at each supply-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for the interaction with the economic cycle, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230763
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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics
Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020
Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228661