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World Bank - 2013

In accordance with the goals of the innovation grant, World Bank staff undertook a study tour to Turkey to observe Turkey's innovative system to deliver farmer-focused weather alerts by cell phone. The regional priority on climate change adaptation highlights an adaptation mechanism that has...

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The new microfinance handbook : a financial market system perspective

Nelson, Candace (contributor); … - 2013

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Bank competition, financing obstacles, and access to credit

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

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Worldwide Landscape of Postal Financial Services : Asia Region

World Bank - 2013

Postal networks in the nine countries in the Asian region profiled here have 289,067 post offices. In many of these Asian countries, post offices have provided payments and savings services for more than 130 years. At the end of 2002, 335 million Asians had postal savings accounts, for a total...

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Determinants of economic growth : a Bayesian panel data approach

Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2009

"Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country, cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to address the issue of model uncertainty. This paper extends that approach to panel data models with country-specific fixed...

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Bank activity and funding strategies : the impact on risk and returns

Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı - 2009

"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …

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Fiscal Risk Assessment of Contingent Liabilities Associated with Natural Disasters

World Bank - 2012

The report titled ‘contingent liabilities: the Colombian experience,’ is the first publication on the management of contingent liabilities in Colombia. Published by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (MHCP), the report highlights technical and normative efforts and policy reforms on...

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