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of private credit/gross domestic product; the positive effect of bank credit is especially pronounced in industries that …
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This paper examines the evolving importance of banks and securities markets during the process of economic development. As economies develop, they increase their demand for the services provided by securities markets relative to those provided by banks, such that securities markets become...
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of Kenya's banking system, using aggregate, bank-level, and survey data. Banks' asset quality and liquidity positions … supervision of microfinance institutions and cooperatives is a priority. Maintaining an openness to new, and non-bank, providers …
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"opportunity incidence analysis" to six pilot countries: Liberia, Cote d?Ivoire, Zambia, Tajikistan, Thailand, and Paraguay. Three …
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surmount. Slowing momentum in countries like Malaysia and Thailand has led analysts and policy makers to consider what it would … education system is fundamental to equip workers with marketable skills. Malaysia and Thailand have successfully expanded access …
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In 2009, buffeted by the great recession, Thai gross domestic product fell by 2.3 percent. Using monthly data from the socio-economic surveys of 2007-2010, this paper finds, after controlling for household variables, that real consumption per capita rose in 2009 relative to 2008 for most groups,...
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Thailand over the last decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted here …, mostly in the form of farm income in Bangladesh and Thailand and non-farm income in the case of Peru. This growth in labor … case of Bangladesh and through public and private transfers in Peru and Thailand. Transfers are more important in …
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This paper exploits the staggered rollout of Thailand?s universal health coverage scheme to estimate its impacts on …
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This paper explores the possibility that universal health coverage may inadvertently result in distorted labor market choices, with workers preferring informal employment over formal employment, leading to negative effects on investment and growth, as well as reduced protection against...
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in softening the effects of these shocks, this paper examines recent nationally-representative data from Thailand, an …
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