Millennium Development Goals set the stage for global support of ambitious development goals behind which the world must rally … mobilized if the world is to succeed in meeting its targets. Thus, the potential for Islamic finance to play a role in …

-factors are the main drivers of spreads across the world. In the case of Brazil, the spread is found to be strongly accounted for … by micro-factors -- also in international comparison. For example, micro-factors contributed 7.2 percentage points (79 … accounted for only 1.9 percentage points (21 percent). Conversely, Brazil does not rank high in international comparison in …

This paper reassesses what works in banking regulation based on the new World Bank survey (Survey IV) of bank … regulation and supervision around world. The paper briefly presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in …

This paper presents the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey, and explores two …

Deteriorating public finances around the world raise doubts about countries' abilities to bail out their largest banks …

regulatory, supervisory authorities, are now available to researchers, and policymakers around the world. The data cover such … a comparison paper ( quot;Bank regulation and supervision: What works bestquot; ) studying the relationship between …