The primary goal of this Framework is to
provide a comprehensive road map which has broad based
support for the vision of fiscal decentralisation as well as
the strategies...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 69792Date: March 1, 2008
The financial crises of the late 1990s
in East Asia and Eastern Europe, as well as the recent
corporate governance scandals in Europe and America, have
highlighted the...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 70564Date: February 1, 2008
The payments system is the
infrastructure (comprised of institutions, instruments,
rules, procedures, standards, and technical means)
established to enable the transfer...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 45235Date: January 1, 2008
The payments system is the
infrastructure (comprised of institutions, instruments,
rules, procedures, standards, and technical means)
established to enable the transfer...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 45235Date: January 1, 2008
Housing finance plays an important part
in the development process. In rich countries, housing
finance averages 70 percent of GDP. In most low and
middle-income countries...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 69960Date: January 1, 2008
Small-and Medium-Sized Enterprises
(SMEs) represent an important part of the Colombian economy,
although they are not well documented in official
statistics. In particular,...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 41610Date: December 1, 2007
The high levels of public debt and
persistent fiscal deficits limit Organization of Eastern
Caribbean States (OECS) governments' ability to pursue
counter-cyclical fiscal...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 42326Date: November 1, 2007
This report was prepared in close
collaboration with the Bank of Albania. This report focused
on trade, services, and agriculture; however, the limited
scope of their...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 42061Date: June 29, 2007
Understanding the industry structure of
banking services in Brazil is an important task both for the
financial community at large and for country specialists.
The Brazilian...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 40076Date: June 26, 2007Author:
Urdapilloeta, Eduardo
This Technical Note has been prepared by
the World Bank at the request of the Ministry of Finance of
the Czech Republic and is the first in a pilot series of
financial...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 69793Date: June 1, 2007
Housing is a major issue in rural India.
The housing shortage is estimated to be between 12 to 14
million houses. A large number of nationals are in poor
living conditions...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 69695Date: June 1, 2007
This review looks at the governance of
the insurance sector in Slovenia, analyzing the legal
framework and its enforcement and the adoption of corporate
governance principles...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 69877Date: May 1, 2007
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) hopes to
successfully conclude the Stabilization and Association
Agreement (SAA) with the European Union (EU) by the end of
2006, upgrading...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 61827Date: February 23, 2007
This report demonstrates that financial
cooperatives can be sustainable providers of financial
services in rural areas and development assistance needs to
consider supporting...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 40043Date: January 1, 2007
This is the second volume of a study on
the insights from a 12-country pilot program on public debt
management and domestic government debt market development.
The discussion...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 40520Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Vittas, Dimitri
The financial sector review of Togo
focused on providing a diagnosis of the main institutions in
the sector including: (i) a quantitative assessment of
banking sector...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 38146Date: November 1, 2006
This report is the third in a series of
regional studies published annually on the Financial
Performance and Soundness Indicators - commonly known as the
Getting Finance...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 69651Date: August 31, 2006
The World Bank undertook a study project
on Vietnams capital markets and sent a mission to Vietnam
from May 15 to May 27, 2005. This report is the result of
the study...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 69970Date: May 1, 2006
Mauritius is facing a sharp transition
from dependence on trade preferences to open competition in
the global economy. And it must do so in an unusually
difficult environment....
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 47882Date: April 26, 2006
This report analyzes the main
characteristics of the Italy-Albania remittance corridor.
The report also provides policy-makers in Albania and Italy,
as well as authorities...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 45232Date: March 4, 2006Author:
Hernandez-Coss, Raul; Martinez, Jose de
Luna; Am
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