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Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Development Finance : Risks and Opportunities
Gelb, Alan - 2017
Sovereign wealth funds represent a large and growing pool of savings. An increasing number of these funds are owned by natural resource?exporting countries and have a variety of objectives, including intergenerational equity and macroeconomic stabilization. Traditionally, these funds have...
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Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa
Diallo, Boubacar - 2017
This paper explores the landscape, contributions, and determinants of sovereign wealth funds' long-term investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study finds that of all regions, Africa receives the lowest share of investment from sovereign wealth funds, and the landscape is dominated by Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967125
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Governance Matters VIII : Aggregate and Individual Governance Indicators, 1996-2008
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2009
This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism,...
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Is the Developing World Catching Up? Global Convergence and National Rising Dispersion
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2017
rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …
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The Developing World is Poorer than We Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty
Chen, Shaohua - 2017
The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746763
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Hiv/Aids and Social Capital in a Cross-Section of Countries
David, Antonio C. - 2017
quality, social distance, and economic indicators using data from the World Values Survey. The results obtained indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746827
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The Regulation and Supervision of Banks Around the World - a New Database
Kee, Hiau Looi - 2017
regulatory, supervisory authorities, are now available to researchers, and policymakers around the world. The data cover such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746898
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Capital Control Liberalization and Stock Market Development
Belli, Paolo - 2017
The authors address two questions: What happens to stock market size, liquidity, volatility, and integration with world …
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Finance and Growth : Schumpeter Might Be Right
Drebentsov, Vladimir - 2017
Joseph Schumpeter argued in 1911 that the services provided by financial intermediaries - mobilizing savings, evaluating projects, managing risk, monitoring managers, and facilitating transactions -stimulate technological innovation and economic development. The authors present evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746925
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Public Enterprise Reform : A Challenge for the World Bank
Ruppert, Elizabeth - 2017
Public enterprises (PEs) earn an average 10 percent of GDP in developing countries. Many governments are reexamining the role of the state, so questions about whether to divest PEs or make them more efficient are likely to intensify. The Bank will increasingly be called upon for advice and...
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