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IEG Review of World Bank Assistance for Financial Sector Reform

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This evaluation presents an independent
assessment of the Bank's support for financial sector
reforms over the period FY93-03. It is the second part of a
two-part evaluation; the first part of the assessment
covered lines of credit. This volume focuses on Bank lending
for financial sector reforms, including both lending
categorized under the financial sector and financial sector
components of multi-sector loans.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Longer-term economic impacts of self-help groups in india

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Despite the popularity and unique nature
of women's self-help groups in India, evidence of their
economic impacts is scant. Based on two rounds of a 2,400
household panel, the authors use double differences,
propensity score matching, and pipeline comparison to assess
economic impacts of longer (2.5-3 years) exposure of a
program that promoted and strengthened self-help programs in
Andhra Pradesh in India.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

The status of bank lending to SMEs in the Middle East and North Africa region : The results of a joint survey of the Union of Arab Bank and the World Bank

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Among the principal constraints for SME
lending is the lack of SME transparency, poor credit
information from credit registries and bureaus, and weak
creditor rights. If constraints can be addressed, lending
can potentially reach bank targets of 21 percent. State
banks still play an important role in financing SMEs in the
MENA region, but they use less sophisticated risk management
systems than private banks.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Global Economic Prospects, Volume 2, January 2011 : Navigating Strong Currents

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Economic activity in most developing countries has, or is close to having, recovered. Supported by resurgence in international and domestic financial flows and higher commodity prices, most of the spare capacity in developing countries that was created by the crisis has been reabsorbed, and developing countries have regained trend growth rates close to those observed in the pre-crisis period. The remainder of this report is organized as follows.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Bulgaria : Investment Climate Assessment, Volume 3, Technical Appendices

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Sustained improvements in living
standards depend on broad-based economic growth. This will
only take place when firms improve worker productivity by
investing in human and physical capital and increasing their
technological capacity. But firms will only invest when the
investment climate is favorable. The goal of the Bulgaria
Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate the
investment climate in all its operational dimensions and to
promote policies to strengthen the private sector.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Mexico : Broadening Access to Financial Services Among the Urban Population, Mexico City's Unbanked, Volume 2, Annexes

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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 focus groups) carried out in Mexico City during 2002. The motivation behind this interest in financial exclusion is two fold.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Broadening the Offering Choice of Corporate Bonds in Emerging Markets : Cost-Effective Access to Debt Capital

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The development of corporate bond
markets has been constrained in many emerging economies,
partly because the regulatory model is implicitly designed
for stand-alone public offerings. Corporate bonds are
intrinsically more suitable for non-retail investors than
for retail investors. Nonetheless, the prevailing regulatory
model puts an excessive emphasis on disclosure and investor
protection as well as government oversight, regardless of
targeted investors.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Economic and social impacts of self-help groups in India

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Although there has been considerable
recent interest in micro-credit programs, rigorous evidence
on the impacts of forming self-help groups to mobilize
savings and foster social empowerment at the local level is
virtually non-existent, despite a large number of programs
following this pattern. The authors use a large household
survey to assess the economic and social impacts of the
formation of self-help groups in India.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Economic Information and Finance : More Information Means More Credit, Fewer Bad Loans, and Less Corruption

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This paper builds on recent work that
shows how financial sector outcomes are affected by the
provision of information by financial and other entities. In
particular, it shows that an indicator of economic
transparency is positively related to higher levels of
private credit and a lower share of nonperforming loans even
after accounting for factors commonly believed to influence
financial sector development in cross-country empirical
estimation.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía

Gender in Bolivian Production : Reducing Differences in Formality and Productivity of Firms

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A main goal of this study is to
determine the variables responsible for the lower formality
of women-owned businesses.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía