-based measures of risk factors of global growth. The weights are estimated using a vector autoregression analysis. The empirical …

for floods and droughts. For these hot spots, implementing risk-sensitive land-use and development policies that protect …

contribution pension systems needs to take a more proactive role in minimizing pension risk. This objective would require ensuring …

develops a new rating scale called the "relative risk rating," which ranks countries according to their actual or shadow … ratings after controlling for changes in the world weighted average rating. When relative ratings in 2012 are compared with … the first half of 2008, the world average rating is found to be weaker because of the financial crisis. The relative …

Which cities have the highest risk of human and economic losses due to natural hazards? And how will urban exposure to … major hazards change over the coming decades? This paper develops a global urban disaster risk index that evaluates the … components of this risk measure are urban hazard characteristics, exposure, and vulnerability. For earthquakes, cyclones, floods …

have ranked the highest in the world since 2005, reaching 49 percent in 2014. The Tax Incentive for Electronically …

penetration of mobile money, moving beyond simple person-to-person exchanges toward adoption by private firms. This study explores … whether there is a relationship between firm adoption of mobile money and firm investment. Using firm-level data that are … relationship is found between mobile money use and the probability of a firm?s purchase of fixed assets. This relationship is …

This study intends to increase understanding of how different types of mobile money services have developed in … should allow (or at least not explicitly forbid) nonbank financial institutions to issue money and use banking agents or … mobile money services …