conducive to crisis can also be associated with more unequal societies."--World Bank web site …

in banking"--World Bank web site …"The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated … economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper …

Finance Group, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the growth finance link"--World … Bank web site …

the policies to forestall them. The paper concludes by identifying directions for future research. "--World Bank web site …"A rapidly growing empirical literature is studying the causes and consequences of bank fragility in contemporary …

larger effort in the group to understand the sources of growth and volatility"--World Bank web site …

department to study the containment and resolution of financial crises"--World Bank web site …