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Taking stock of the financial sector policy response to COVID-19 around the world
Feyen, Erik; Gispert, Tatiana Alonso; Kliatskova, Tatsiana - 2020
policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 154 jurisdictions. It documents that authorities around the world have taken …
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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update 2010, Volume 1 : Emerging Stronger from the Crisis
World Bank Group - 2010
protectionist pressures around the world, including in the region. Deeper integration will encourage agglomeration economies and …
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East Asia Update, November 2002 : Making Pogress in Uncertain Times
World Bank Group - 2002
, improving financial sector supervision and regulation, and undertaking broader reforms to strengthen the investment climate are …
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East Asia Update, November 2006 : Managing Through a Global Downturn
World Bank Group - 2006
the World Bank's recent World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation …
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East Asia and Pacific Update, April 2007 : Ten Years After the Crisis
World Bank Group - 2007
Growth in Emerging East Asia accelerated to reach 8.1 percent in 2006. This was the strongest pace of economic expansion in the last ten years and a fitting commemoration of the decade that has passed since the start of the Asian financial crisis in 1997. The region's accomplishments in...
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Sustainable Energy for All 2015 : Progress Toward Sustainable Energy
Bazilian, Morgan (contributor); Foster, Vivien (contributor) - World Bankgroup - 2015 - Online-Ausg.
Sustainable Energy for All seeks to improve the lives of billions of people across the world and ensure a more … Global Tracking Framework provides an update of how the world has been moving towards the three objectives over the period … need to be made. Second, it explores the extent to which countries around the world have access to the technology needed to …
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Can regulation promote financial inclusion?
Chen, Rong; Divanbeigi, Raian - 2019
financial regulation. First, the paper proposes a broad index of regulatory quality for financial inclusion, emphasizing the …
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Trade facilitation in services : a conceptual and empirical analysis
Gillson, Ian; Molinuevo, Martín; Sáez, Sebastián - 2020
Beyond their key contribution to value chains in all sectors, services represent a centrally important source of economic and export diversification. This paper discusses how to promote trade in services as a channel for growth, employment, and diversification by assessing services trade costs...
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Recent trends in bank privatization
Bertay, Ata Can; Calice, Pietro; Diaz Kalan, Federico … - 2020
This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries, it shows that bank privatization became more frequent since the Global Financial Crisis,...
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Regulatory arbitrage and cross-border syndicated loans
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Horváth, Bálint; Huizinga, Harry - 2019
-border syndicated loan market. Lending provided through a foreign subsidiary is subject to subsidiary-country regulation and … stringent bank regulation and supervision consistent with regulatory arbitrage, but that they prefer to originate loans in …
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