Since the 1990s, the financial systems in developing and developed countries have gained in soundness, depth, and diversity, prompted in part by a series of financial sector and macroeconomic reforms aimed at fostering a market-driven economy in which finance plays a central role. Latin America...

The political dimension of finance in economic development / Stephan Haggard and Chung H. Lee -- Financial policy and big business in Korea : the perils of financial regulation / Byung-Sun Choi -- Guarding the commanding heights : the state as banker in Taiwan / Tun-Jen Cheng -- The politics of...

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), financial technology has been growing rapidly and is on the agenda of many policy makers. Fintech provides opportunities to deepen financial development, competition, innovation, and inclusion in the region but also creates new and only partially...