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Integrating Land Financing Into Subnational Fiscal Management
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Land assets have become an important source of financing capital investments by subnational governments in developing countries. Land assets, often with billions of dollars per transaction, rival...
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Impact Assessments In Finance And Private Sector Development: What Have We Learned And What Should We Learn?
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Until recently rigorous impact evaluations have been rare in the area of finance and private sector development. One reason for this is the perception that many policies and projects in this area...
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Trade Finance In Crisis: Should Developing Countries Establish Export Credit Agencies?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
New data on export insurance and guarantees suggest that publicly backed export credit agencies have played a role to prevent a complete drying up of trade finance markets during the current...
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Disaster Risk Financing And Contingent Credit: A Dynamic Analysis
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to assist policy makers interested in establishing or strengthening financial strategies to increase the financial response capacity of developing country governments in the...
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Entrepreneurship In Post-conflict Transition: The Role Of Informality And Access To Finance
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the factors affecting the transition to self-employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Survey panel household survey for the years...
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Formal Versus Informal Finance: Evidence From China
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
China is often mentioned as a counterexample to the findings in the finance and growth literature since, despite the weaknesses in its banking system, it is one of the fastest growing economies in...
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Inter-firm Trade Finance In Times Of Crisis
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper discusses the main features that distinguish inter-firm international trade finance from alternative sources of financing. On the one hand, inter-firm trade finance could help overcome...
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The Impact Of The Business Environment On Young Firm Financing
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses a dataset of more than 70,000 firms in over 100 countries to systematically study the use of different financing sources for new and young firms, in comparison to mature firms. The...
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Sustainability Of Healthcare Financing In The Western Balkans: An Overview Of Progress And Challenges
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the major challenges to the sustainability of health sector financing in the countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of...
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Social Health Insurance Vs. Tax-financed Health Systems - Evidence From The OECD
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper exploits the transitions between tax-financed health care and social health insurance in the OECD countries over the period 1960-2006 to assess the effects of adopting social health...
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Innovations In Rural And Agriculture Finance
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Most rural households lack access to reliable and affordable finance for agriculture and other livelihood activities. Many small farmers live in remote areas where retail banking is limited and...
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Measuring The Performance And Achievement Of Social Objectives Of Development Finance Institutions
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper develops and tests a proposed methodology that puts forward a new integrated method for evaluating the performance of development finance institutions. This methodology applies...
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Windfall Management For Poverty Reduction: Improving Public Finance Management- The Case Of Chad
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims at providing a guide to ensure efficiency in the management of Chad's windfall to support the development process and poverty reduction. The analysis is based on the lessons and...
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Financing Of The Private Sector In Mexico, 2000-05: Evolution, Composition, And Determinants
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The objective of this paper is to describe the evolution, composition and determinants of financing to the non-financial private sector in Mexico between 2000 and 2005. Supported by the...
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Trade And Trade Finance Developments In 14 Developing Countries Post September 2008 - A World Bank Survey
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008, drop in the supply of trade finance, a critical engine for trade transactions, has become an acute concern for the development...
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Are Innovating Firms Victims Or Perpetrators? Tax Evasion, Bribe Payments, And The Role Of External Finance In Developing Countries
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates corruption and tax evasion and their firm-level determinants across 25,000 firms in 57 countries, a large fraction of which are small and medium enterprises in developing...
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Bank Financing For SMEs Around The World: Drivers, Obstacles, Business Models, And Lending Practices
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using data from a survey of 91 banks in 45 countries, the authors characterize bank financing to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) around the world. They find that banks perceive the SME segment...
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Microfinance Tradeoffs: Regulation, Competition, And Financing
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes important trade-offs that microfinance practitioners, donors, and regulators navigate. Drawing evidence from large, global surveys of microfinance institutions, the authors...
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Liability Structure In Small-scale Finance: Evidence From A Natural Experiment
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has witnessed dramatic growth, reaching over 150 million borrowers worldwide. Much of its success has been attributed to...
Provided by The World Bank
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Credit Risk Management In Financing Agriculture
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Agriculture is an inherently risky economic activity. A large array of uncontrollable elements can affect output production and prices, resulting in highly variable economic returns to farm...
Provided by The World Bank
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Learning From Developing Country Experience Growth And Economic Thought Before And After The 2008-09 Crisis
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it documents the changing global landscape before and after the crisis, emphasizing the shift towards multipolarity. In particular, it emphasizes the...
Provided by The World Bank
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Innovating Development Finance: From Financing Sources To Financial Solutions
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As early as 2000, development partners embarked on a decade-long search for "Innovative" or alternative sources of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to help finance achievement of the...
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Mobile Banking And Financial Inclusion: The Regulatory Lessons
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service....
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Stimulating Managerial Capital In Emerging Markets: The Impact Of Business And Financial Literacy For Young Entrepreneurs
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Identifying the determinants of entrepreneurship is an important research and policy goal, especially in emerging market economies where lack of capital and supporting infrastructure often imposes...
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Financial Inclusion In The Middle East And North Africa
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The paper provides an assessment of the state of financial inclusion in the MENA region, and identifies constraints, opportunities, and priorities for significantly improving access to finance....
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Access To Financial Services And The Financial Inclusion Agenda Around The World: A Cross-Country Analysis With A New Data Set
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Recent empirical evidence highlights that access to basic financial services can make a substantial positive difference in improving poor people's lives. Accordingly, financial sector reforms that...
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Forecasting Migrant Remittances During The Global Financial Crisis
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The financial crisis has highlighted the need for forecasts of remittance flows in many developing countries where these flows have proved to be a lifeline to the poor people and the economy. This...
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Financing Indian Cities: Opportunities And Constraints In An Nth Best World
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines international experience with mobilizing funding for both capital and recurrent costs for municipal infrastructure with a view to identifying areas where India could improve...
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Protecting Child Nutritional Status In The Aftermath Of A Financial Crisis: Evidence From Indonesia
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper exploits heterogeneity in program exposure to evaluate the effectiveness of a supplementary feeding program implemented in the wake of the 1997-1998 economic crises in Indonesia. The...
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The Impact Of The Global Financial Crisis On Off-Farm Employment And Earnings In Rural China
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds...
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Financial Protection Of The State Against Natural Disasters: A Primer
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper has been prepared for policy makers interested in establishing or strengthening financial strategies to increase the financial response capacity of governments of developing countries...
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Do Middle-Income Countries Continue To Have The Ability To Deal With The Global Financial Crisis?
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces an "Index of macroeconomic space" - demonstrating the ability of a country to run a countercyclical fiscal policy or a fiscal stimulus at any point in time - to show how a...
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Consumer Protection And Financial Literacy: Lessons From Nine Country Studies
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The recent turmoil in financial markets worldwide has emphasized the need for adequate consumer protection and financial literacy for long-term stability of the financial sector. This Working...
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Political Capture Of Decentralization: Vote-Buying Through Grants-Financed Local Jurisdictions
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A recent trend in decentralization in several large and diverse countries is the creation of local jurisdictions below the regional level - municipalities, towns, and villages - whose spending is...
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Seasonal And Extreme Poverty In Bangladesh: Evaluating An Ultra-Poor Microfinance Project
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike...
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Financial Globalization And The Russian Crisis Of 1998
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Russia had more-or-less completed the privatization of its manufacturing and natural resource sectors by the end of 1997. And in February 1998, the annual inflation rate at last dipped into the...
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The Political, Regulatory And Market Failures That Caused The US Financial Crisis
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the key regulatory, market and political failures that led to the 2008-2009 United States financial crisis. While Congress was fixing the Savings and Loan crisis, it failed to...
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Assessing The Financial Vulnerability To Climate-Related Natural Hazards
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
National governments are key actors in managing the impacts of extreme weather events, yet many highly exposed developing countries - faced with exhausted tax bases, high levels of indebtedness,...
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Financial Transactions Tax: Panacea, Threat, Or Damp Squib?
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Attempts to raise a significant percentage of gross domestic product in revenue from a broad-based financial transactions tax are likely to fail both by raising much less revenue than expected and...
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Measuring Financial Access Around The World
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces a new set of financial access indicators for 139 countries across the globe and describes the results of a preliminary analysis of this data set. The new data set builds on...
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Revenue Management" Effects Related To Financial Flows Generated By Climate Policy
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses possible macroeconomic implications for low-income countries of increased revenue inflows that may follow from implementing certain global greenhouse gas mitigation policies....
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Trade And Trade Finance Developments In 14 Developing Countries Post
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008, drop in the supply of trade finance, a critical engine for trade transactions, has become an acute concern for the development...
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State Financial Institutions: Mandates, Governance, And Beyond
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is no doubt that on average the performance of state financial institutions around the world has been below the lowest expectations. Lack of governance, management skills, regulation, and...
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How Complementary Are Prudential Regulation And Monetary Policy?
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Could either monetary policy or financial prudential regulation be relied on individually to mitigate asset price cycles or their effects? If both ways are effective, monetary policy and...
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International Aid And Financial Crises In Donor Countries
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The global financial crisis has already led to sharp downturns in the developing world. In the past, international aid has been able to offset partially the effects of crises that began in the...
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Assessing The Impact Of Infrastructure Quality On Firm Productivity In Africa: Cross-Country Comparisons Based On Investment Climate Surveys From 1999 To 2005
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper provides a systematic, empirical assessment of the impact of infrastructure quality on the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of African manufacturing firms. This measure is understood to...
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Sponsoring A Race To The Top: The Case For Results-Based Intergovernmental Finance For Merit Goods
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Intergovernmental finance is a significant source of sub-national finance in most countries. In both industrial and developing countries, formula based "Manna from heaven" general purpose...
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Measuring The Impact Of The Financial Crisis On New Business Registration
December 7, 2010, 12:00am PST
Business owners and would-be entrepreneurs are often at the mercy of macroeconomic conditions. This was never more true than in 2008 and 2009, when the financial crisis reverberated throughout the...
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Private Education Provision And Public Finance: The Netherlands
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
One of the key features of the Dutch education system is freedom of education - freedom to establish schools and organize teaching. Almost 70 percent of schools in the Netherlands are administered...
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Dysfunctional Finance: Positive Shocks And Negative Outcomes
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper shows how badly a market economy may respond to a positive productivity shock in an environment with asymmetric information about project quality: some, all, or even more than all the...
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Finances Of Egyptian Listed Firms And The Performance Of The Egyptian Stock Exchange
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes the finances of Egypt's listed firms and the performance of the Egyptian stock exchange during the period 2003-07/08. Egyptian companies can be clearly divided into a top tier...
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Rethinking Market Discipline In Banking: Lessons From The Financial Crisis
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The main objective of this paper is to rethink the use of market discipline for prudential purposes in light of lessons from the financial crisis. The paper develops the main building blocks of a...
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Measuring Financial Access Around The World
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper introduces a new set of financial access indicators for 139 countries across the globe and describes the results of a preliminary analysis of this data set. The new data set builds on...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Financial Transactions Tax: Panacea, Threat, Or Damp Squib?
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Attempts to raise a significant percentage of gross domestic product in revenue from a broad-based financial transactions tax are likely to fail both by raising much less revenue than expected and...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Assessing The Financial Vulnerability To Climate-Related Natural Hazards
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
National governments are key actors in managing the impacts of extreme weather events, yet many highly exposed developing countries - faced with exhausted tax bases, high levels of indebtedness,...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
The Political, Regulatory And Market Failures That Caused The US Financial Crisis
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the key regulatory, market and political failures that led to the 2008-2009 United States financial crisis. While Congress was fixing the Savings and Loan crisis, it failed to...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Financial Globalization And The Russian Crisis Of 1998
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Russia had more-or-less completed the privatization of its manufacturing and natural resource sectors by the end of 1997. And in February 1998, the annual inflation rate at last dipped into the...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Seasonal And Extreme Poverty In Bangladesh: Evaluating An Ultra-Poor Microfinance Project
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Political Capture Of Decentralization: Vote-Buying Through Grants-Financed Local Jurisdictions
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
A recent trend in decentralization in several large and diverse countries is the creation of local jurisdictions below the regional level - municipalities, towns, and villages - whose spending is...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Consumer Protection And Financial Literacy: Lessons From Nine Country Studies
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The recent turmoil in financial markets worldwide has emphasized the need for adequate consumer protection and financial literacy for long-term stability of the financial sector. This Working...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Do Middle-Income Countries Continue To Have The Ability To Deal With The Global Financial Crisis?
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces an "Index of macroeconomic space" - demonstrating the ability of a country to run a countercyclical fiscal policy or a fiscal stimulus at any point in time - to show how a...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Financial Protection Of The State Against Natural Disasters: A Primer
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper has been prepared for policy makers interested in establishing or strengthening financial strategies to increase the financial response capacity of governments of developing countries...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
The Impact Of The Global Financial Crisis On Off-Farm Employment And Earnings In Rural China
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Protecting Child Nutritional Status In The Aftermath Of A Financial Crisis: Evidence From Indonesia
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper exploits heterogeneity in program exposure to evaluate the effectiveness of a supplementary feeding program implemented in the wake of the 1997-1998 economic crises in Indonesia. The...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Financing Indian Cities: Opportunities And Constraints In An Nth Best World
November 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines international experience with mobilizing funding for both capital and recurrent costs for municipal infrastructure with a view to identifying areas where India could improve...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Forecasting Migrant Remittances During The Global Financial Crisis
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The financial crisis has highlighted the need for forecasts of remittance flows in many developing countries where these flows have proved to be a lifeline to the poor people and the economy. This...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Access To Financial Services And The Financial Inclusion Agenda Around The World: A Cross-Country Analysis With A New Data Set
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Recent empirical evidence highlights that access to basic financial services can make a substantial positive difference in improving poor people's lives. Accordingly, financial sector reforms that...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Financial Inclusion In The Middle East And North Africa
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The paper provides an assessment of the state of financial inclusion in the MENA region, and identifies constraints, opportunities, and priorities for significantly improving access to finance....
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Stimulating Managerial Capital In Emerging Markets: The Impact Of Business And Financial Literacy For Young Entrepreneurs
April 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Identifying the determinants of entrepreneurship is an important research and policy goal, especially in emerging market economies where lack of capital and supporting infrastructure often imposes...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Mobile Banking And Financial Inclusion: The Regulatory Lessons
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Mobile banking is growing at a remarkable speed around the world. In the process it is creating considerable uncertainty about the appropriate regulatory response to this newly emerging service....
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Innovating Development Finance: From Financing Sources To Financial Solutions
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As early as 2000, development partners embarked on a decade-long search for "Innovative" or alternative sources of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to help finance achievement of the...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Learning From Developing Country Experience Growth And Economic Thought Before And After The 2008-09 Crisis
August 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it documents the changing global landscape before and after the crisis, emphasizing the shift towards multipolarity. In particular, it emphasizes the...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Credit Risk Management In Financing Agriculture
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Agriculture is an inherently risky economic activity. A large array of uncontrollable elements can affect output production and prices, resulting in highly variable economic returns to farm...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Liability Structure In Small-scale Finance: Evidence From A Natural Experiment
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has witnessed dramatic growth, reaching over 150 million borrowers worldwide. Much of its success has been attributed to...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Microfinance Tradeoffs: Regulation, Competition, And Financing
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes important trade-offs that microfinance practitioners, donors, and regulators navigate. Drawing evidence from large, global surveys of microfinance institutions, the authors...
Provided by The World Bank
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White Papers
Bank Financing For SMEs Around The World: Drivers, Obstacles, Business Models, And Lending Practices
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using data from a survey of 91 banks in 45 countries, the authors characterize bank financing to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) around the world. They find that banks perceive the SME segment...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Are Innovating Firms Victims Or Perpetrators? Tax Evasion, Bribe Payments, And The Role Of External Finance In Developing Countries
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates corruption and tax evasion and their firm-level determinants across 25,000 firms in 57 countries, a large fraction of which are small and medium enterprises in developing...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Trade And Trade Finance Developments In 14 Developing Countries Post September 2008 - A World Bank Survey
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008, drop in the supply of trade finance, a critical engine for trade transactions, has become an acute concern for the development...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Financing Of The Private Sector In Mexico, 2000-05: Evolution, Composition, And Determinants
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The objective of this paper is to describe the evolution, composition and determinants of financing to the non-financial private sector in Mexico between 2000 and 2005. Supported by the...
Provided by The World Bank
-
White Papers
Windfall Management For Poverty Reduction: Improving Public Finance Management- The Case Of Chad
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims at providing a guide to ensure efficiency in the management of Chad's windfall to support the development process and poverty reduction. The analysis is based on the lessons and...
Provided by The World Bank
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