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Group Support to the Microenterprise Sector: (1990-2000)
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001
The IDB Group, guided by its Strategy for Microenterprise Development, has made the creation of a sustainable market of services to the sector one of its most important priorities during the past decade. This report presents an overview of the contributions the IDB has made to the...
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Can Financial Market Policies Reduce Income Inequality?
Westley, Glenn D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
This paper marshals substantial arguments and data to support the contention that improving the access of micro and small enterprises to financial services could have an important salutary impact on a country's income distribution. To demonstrate this, the paper shows first that many poor own or...
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Microfinance: From Village to Wall Street?
Jansson, Tor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
This paper presents a synopsis of the current state of the microfinance industry in Latin America. It provides a rough assessment of the achievement and outreach of the industry; it offers revealing information on the financial performance of 20 microfinance institutions; and it outlines some of...
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Private Insurance in 2001: Return to Normality
Url, Thomas - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 75 (2002) 10, pp. 651-659
The stormy years following introduction of the single market appear to be over at last. In spite of the fact that the premium level in the main segments was cut for good, insurers were for the first time able to impose substantial increases in premium rates in 2001, a development which is...
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Weak Nominal Income Growth Impacts on the Insurance Sector in 2002
Url, Thomas - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 76 (2003) 10, pp. 781-790
In 2002, private insurers saw their revenues from premiums grow in alignment with GDP at current prices. Due to price increases, property and liability insurance once again expanded its traditional dominance. For 2003, revenues from premiums are expected to rise slightly above the growth rate of...
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Perspektiven der Elementarschadenversicherung in Österreich
Schönegger, Anita; Ebeert, Daniela - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 77 (2008) 4, pp. 104-109
Austria is and always has been specifically exposed to natural hazards mainly due to its topographical location. The frequency and the severity of damages caused by extreme events have significantly increased in the last few decades. For a comprehensive, modern insurance solution to this...
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Die Bedeutung der Versicherungswirtschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen - Teil 2: Spartenspezifische Betrachtung der Versicherungsindustrie als Risikoträger und Kapitalanleger sowie weite...
Schradin, Heinrich R.; Hooma, Aaschuka; Malik, Alexander; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Die private Versicherungswirtschaft ist sowohl für jeden Einzelnen als auch für eine Gesellschaft insgesamt sehr … Versicherungswirtschaft dient der Stabilisierung der einzel- und gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Im internationalen Vergleich sind die … Geschäftspotenziale der deutschen privaten Versicherungswirtschaft aufgrund der unverändert großen Bedeutung der Sozialversicherung …
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Die Bedeutung der Versicherungswirtschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen - Teil 1: Überblick, Betriebe, Beschäftigte und Bruttobeiträge
Schradin, Heinrich R.; Hooma, Aaschuka; Malik, Alexander; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Im Rahmen einer empirisch-deskriptiven Analyse wurde die Bedeutung der Versicherungswirtschaft in Nordrhein …
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Die EU-Finanzzentren im Bannkreis von integrierten Finanzmärkten und Wahrungsunion
Koll, Robert - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 51 (1998) 3, pp. 09-20
Die Liberalisierung grenzüberschreitender Finanzdienstleistungen ermöglichte es den großen europäischen Finanzzentren London, Paris und Frankfurt, ihre Positionen - in jeweils unterschiedlichen Bereichen - zu stärken. Einige mittlere Zentren wie Amsterdam, Mailand, Madrid und Stockholm...
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Finance Sector Wage Growth and the role of Human Capital
Lindley, Joanne; McIntosh, Steven - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2014
Given the UK finance sector is one of the largest in the world, it provides the perfect setting for a study into the nature of the finance sector wage premium. We reveal the pervasiveness of this premium, across all sub-sectors of finance, and across all occupations within finance, and with the...
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