This study analyzes the key issues and
constraints - in terms of efficiency, access and safety and
soundness - faced by East Asian countries in developing
their financial...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 37264Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Ghosh,Swati R.
This report provides an overview of
remittance flows from Germany to Serbia and analyzes why a
large part of remittance transfers take place outside
financial institutions....
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 36338Date: January 1, 2006Author:
Barberis,Corrado ;
De Luna-Martinez,Jose ;
Endo,Isaku
The present report looks at issues of
access to financial services in urban Mexico, drawing on
existing documentation as well as on research (surveys,
interviews and...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 32418Date: September 30, 2005
The present report looks at issues of
access to financial services in urban Mexico, drawing on
existing documentation as well as on research (surveys,
interviews and...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 32418Date: September 30, 2005
This report on anti-money laundering
(AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT)
regulation addresses the consequences of these regulations
on low-income people....
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 68923Date: July 1, 2005
This report combines a study undertaken
in two phases of the Benin financial sector. Phase 1 of the
study, conducted in 2003, provided a diagnostic of the
financial...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 33440Date: June 1, 2005
The investment approvals reform program
Fiji started in September 2004 for an initial 12 month
period in association with the Ministry of Commerce,
Business Development...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 69649Date: May 27, 2005
The practice of Demand-Side Management
(DSM) has evolved over the past three decades in response to
lessons learned from implementation in different global
settings,...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 68972Date: February 1, 2005
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri
Lanka have all experienced a sharp increase in remittances
during the past decade, and are the countries among the top
20 receivers...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 31577Date: February 1, 2005
Sri Lanka has made significant
achievements in the provision of financial services in some
areas, but there are still critical market segments that
remain underserved,...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 34958Date: January 1, 2005
Financial market liberalization,
innovations in the area of risk management, and reductions
in transaction and supervisory costs have had significant
positive impacts...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 32726Date: January 1, 2005
Since the early national plans,
successive governments in independent India have emphasized
the link between improving access to finance, and reducing
poverty - a stance...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 30740Date: December 1, 2004
The purpose of this Financial Sector
Note (FSN) is to review recent developments in Serbia's
financial system, and to provide policy recommendations for
its future development....
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 35546Date: September 10, 2004
This study seeks to evaluate present
levels of access to financial services, and government
policies adopted which impact upon access. Based on these
findings, it explores...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 27773Date: February 19, 2004
The Review suggests the outlines of an
architecture for microfinance in Fiji in which the National
Centre for Small and Micro-Enterprise Development (NCSMED),
as envisioned...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 69324Date: October 1, 2003
Twenty-two of India's 31 states are
regarded as particularly prone to natural disasters: 55% of
its land is vulnerable to earthquake, 8% is vulnerable to
cyclone, and...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 26844Date: August 1, 2003
In February 2001, Turkey was hit by its
deepest economic and financial crisis since World War II,
prompting a severe decline in business activity. The adverse
effects...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 23153Date: March 31, 2003
Longstanding macroeconomic instability,
and inflation in Turkey, have discouraged investment in
financial assets, and a persistently high public sector
borrowing requirement...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 25467Date: February 28, 2003
The banking system in Bangladesh has
become more diversified recently in ownership. In 1997,
there were four Nationalized Commercial Banks (NCBs), 18
local private banks,...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 17941Date: May 15, 1998
Since Independence in 1947 India has
pursued a strategy of mixed economic development, relying on
state control of many key sectors of the economy on the one
hand, and...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 95113Date: March 9, 1994
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