Reverse stress tests can be a useful
tool to evaluate bank resilience to a credit shock,
especially in environments where financial data are limited
or opaque. This...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9864Date: November 29, 2021Author:
Feyen,Erik H.B. ;
Mare,Davide Salvatore
The Debt Management Performance
Assessment (DeMPA) is the World Bank’s diagnostic
tool for assessing performance using a comprehensive set of
indicators that...
Type: ReportReport#: 162824Date: November 25, 2021Author:
De Moura Estevao Filho,Marcello ;
Doemeland,Doerte ;
Proite,Andre ;
Razlog,Lilia ;
Aslan,Cigdem ;
Rivetti,Diego ;
Jessen,Lars ;
Hakim,Lea ;
Puccini Secunho,Leandro ;
Nielsen,Lars Mayland ;
Larsen,Lars Ole ;
Anderson ;
Phillip ;
Bango,Zsolt
The Debt Management Performance
Assessment (DeMPA) is the World Bank’s diagnostic
tool for assessing performance using a comprehensive set of
indicators that...
Type: ReportReport#: 162824Date: November 25, 2021Author:
De Moura Estevao Filho,Marcello ;
Doemeland,Doerte ;
Proite,Andre ;
Razlog,Lilia ;
Aslan,Cigdem ;
Rivetti,Diego ;
Jessen,Lars ;
Hakim,Lea ;
Puccini Secunho,Leandro ;
Nielsen,Lars Mayland ;
Larsen,Lars Ole ;
Anderson ;
Phillip ;
Bango,Zsolt
Tax revenue in many low- and
middle-income countries is inadequate for funding
investments in public goods and human capital. With high
levels of informality and limited...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9848Date: November 15, 2021Author:
Okunogbe,Oyebola Motunrayo ;
Santoro,Fabrizio
The Pandora Papers highlight a worldwide
lack of transparency of information on who owns and controls
what and where. Unfortunately, trusts and complex corporate
structures...
Type: BriefReport#: 165999Date: November 11, 2021Author:
Cebreiro Gomez,Ana ;
Collin,Matthew Edward ;
Esquivel,Yara ;
De Magalhaes Pinto Almeida,Yasmin ;
Van der Does de Willebois,Emile J. M. ;
Anderson,James
This evaluation provides an early-stage
assessment of the Sustainable Development Finance Policy
(SDFP) of the International Development Association (IDA),
which went...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 165764Date: November 10, 2021
At the 2019 Finance and Economic
Ministers Meeting (FEMM), policy makers called for improved
transparency of the Pacific trust funds’
management practices and...
Type: ReportReport#: 165900Date: November 8, 2021Author:
Gratcheva,Ekaterina M. ;
Emery,Teal
This paper proposes a novel theory of
reserve accumulation that emphasizes the role of an
independent central bank. Motivated by a positive
correlation between reserve...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9832Date: November 2, 2021Author:
Samano Penaloza,Agustin
In recent years, due to innovations in
technology, the concept of digital currency has emerged out
of the desire of some private entities to replicate specific
properties...
The Country Policy and Institutional
Assessment (CPIA) 2021 Africa report provides an assessment
of the quality of policies and institutions of International
Development...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168201Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Zeufack,Albert G. ;
Kambou,Gerard ;
Korman,Vijdan ;
Brenton,Paul ;
Chandra,Rinku ;
Cortes,Mariano ;
De Andrade Falcao,Natasha ;
Feda,Kebede ;
Finn,Arden Jeremy ;
Kirkwood,Daniel John ;
Manes,Eric David ;
Malik,Waleed Haider ;
Montes,Jose ;
Oodally,Yasmina ;
Piatti,Moritz ;
Sohn,Min Ji ;
Williams,Penny
Over the years, the demand for seamless
and inexpensive cross-border payments has grown in parallel
with growth in international e-commerce, remittances and
tourism....
Payment and settlement systems and
services have become vital components of the economic life
of contemporary societies. Over the last decades, they have
gone through...
The Debt Sustainability Analysis
indicates that Cambodia remains at low risk of external and
overall debt distress. The current debt carrying capacity is
consistent...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 167364Date: November 1, 2021
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank Group President David Malpass and Sky News Ian
King Glasgow, United Kingdom on November 1, 2021. He spoke
about the valuable...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 165805Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Malpass,David
The global shock caused by the COVID-19
pandemic has only deepened the need to mobilize long term
private capital to meet multi trillion-dollar infrastructure
gaps,...
Type: ReportReport#: 165688Date: October 28, 2021Author:
Henderson,Jennifer Anne Erskine ;
Gratcheva,Ekaterina M. ;
Levine,Aaron Nathan ;
Mirrlees-Black, Jonathan ;
Osenius-Eite, Benjamin ;
Brennan,Mark Anthony
GIA provides two services (assurance and
advisory) and delivers three engagement products (audits,
assurance reviews, and advisory reviews). Product selection
for each...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 165513Date: October 22, 2021
The World Bank Treasury’s Reserve
Advisory and Management Partnership (RAMP) conducted its
third survey on reserve management practices in 2021. One
hundred and nineteen...
Type: ReportReport#: 165433Date: October 22, 2021Author:
Ballon Carneiro,Mikaela ;
Hong,Dongsoo ;
Klingebiel,Daniela M. H. ;
Herrero Montes,Carmen Mileva ;
Ruiz Gil,Marco Antonio
The present paper estimates the impact
of bureaucratic corruption on access to finance of small and
medium-size enterprises in 114 developing countries.
Corruption can...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9812Date: October 19, 2021Author:
Amin,Mohammad ;
Motta,Vctor
Many countries seek to improve women’s
economic participation with the introduction of targeted
laws and regulations. The impact of these reforms appears
significant,...
Type: ReportReport#: 165187Date: October 18, 2021Author:
Adnane,Souad
This is a statement by H.E. Sri Mulyani
Indrawati Minister of Finance, at the 104th meeting of the
Development Committee held on October 15, 2021. The global
economy...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 165359Date: October 15, 2021
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