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This Selected Issues paper focuses on challenges and policies regarding climate change in the Republic of North Macedonia. A scale-up of private and public investments, along with decommission of old and polluting coal-based power plants, is needed to adapt to climate change and meet emissions...
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This note intends to provide advice to bank supervision and resolution authorities and policymakers seeking to deal … with opaque bank ownership or significant overhang of related-party exposures …
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This Technical Assistance Report on Peru focuses on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Stakeholder Engagement … establish the central bank's role in leading a "baseline product" with market participants. The final set of recommendations … urges the central bank to view the CBDC as a national product and leverage existing elements and participants at the …
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This paper examines how the growing presence of FinTech firms affects the performance of traditional financial institutions. The findings point to a negative impact on profitability, primarily due to a reduction in interest income and a rise in operational costs. Although established financial...
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This paper presents the second set of PRGT borrowing agreements that have been finalized through April 2023 as part of the loan mobilization round launched in July 2021 to cover the cost of pandemic-related lending and support the self-sustainability of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust...
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Years of isolation and continuous conflicts have left Gaza's economic development far behind that of the West Bank. In … 2022, per capita income in Gaza was only a quarter of that in the West Bank, and unemployment and poverty rates were much … in both West Bank and Gaza, restrictions are far more severe for Gaza. As a result of this Gaza blockade and repeated …
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Lenders can exploit households' payment data to infer their creditworthiness. When households value privacy, they then face a tradeoff between protecting such privacy and credit conditions. We study how the introduction of an informationally more intrusive digital payment vehicle affects...
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This paper highlights the details of the technical assistance (TA) provided to the Bank of Mongolia (BOM) on central … bank communications. The purpose of the mission was to assist the authorities in enhancing the existing communication … by the BOM was to better understand global trends in central bank communications and what are shaping up as well …
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Bank and Gaza has widened over time. Further facilitation of private sector job creation in high-productivity tradable …
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