... revisited – an assessment based on a matching strategy Andreas Behr Frank Heid 06 2008 30 07 2008 Which interest rate scenario is the worst one for a bank? Evidence from a tracking bank approach ... revenue for most of the banks The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of dierent interest rate scenarios on the banks' interest inc...
... Development World Bank Institute World Development Indicators World Health Organization iv THE WORLD BANK’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACTION PLAN: 2010-2015 I Introduction Reproductive health (RH) ... 10 15 World Health Organization (2005), World Health Report 2005: Make Every Mother and Child Count, Geneva: WHO 16 World Health Organization (2005), World He...
... (1996) Private Sector Development Strategy – Directions for the World Bank Group 21 III PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES OF THE WORLD BANK GROUP3 5 A World Bank Group PSD Activities – Historical ... Law World Bank Group World Business Environment Survey World Business Council for Sustainable Development World Bank Institute...
... measures the current surface deformation of the GBT in the form of Zernike polynomials which can then be sent to the active surface to counteract the deformation and restore good performance The AutoOOF ... Expected Tsys the GBT for typical weather conditions 11 Figure 4: System Equivalent Flux densities the GBT for typical weather conditions 12 13 3.3 Backends 3.3.1...
... to the Bank On one hand, Executive Directors act as representatives of the member country or countries that appointed or elected them, and on the other hand they are Bank officials devoted to the ... countries and DTCs and the declaration by the G20 Leaders of numerical targets for shifts of voting power to be achieved in the Bank and the Fund Secondly, if t...
... shall be safe passage between the Gaza Strip and Jericho area for link between Gaza and the West Bank in the context of the residents of the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area, and for Israeli -Palestinian ... to the Palestinians a deal that would have resulted in a Palestinian State, with territory over 97 percent of the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusal...
... serve the interests of those to whom it was accountable REFORMING THE WORLD BANK During the 1980s, the World Bank and the IMF advocated similar policies, and there were many similarities in the ... the left and right agreed that the improvement in the efficiency of resource allocation and the increase in the supply of capital were at the heart of development...
... co-operate in researching balance mechanisms: balance in favour of Impoverishing a Continent: The World Bank and IMF in Africa 21 those who own the financial institutions and use the power against the ... mounted against the South” during the 1980s The other prong was “low-intensity conflicts” (LIC), the U.S launched against governments in Afghanistan...
... Which Bank Is the “Central” Bank? An Application of Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System Morten L Bech, James T E Chapman, and Rod Garratt Federal Reserve Bank of New ... obtain the sum of bilateral credit limits granted to bank i However, a bank s initial payments cannot exceed this amount times the system wide Bank...
... politics The Bank s understanding of good governance continues to reflect a concern over the effectiveness of the state rather than the equity of the economic system and the legitimacy of the power ... World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World (Washington DC: OUP for World Bank) _ 1994 Governance: The World Bank Experience (Washington, D...
... 183 Source: World Bank and IFC, World Bank staff calculations The Doing Business 2012 report finds that Russia improved in nine of the ten indicators measured by Doing Business since 2004, although ... days in India and six days in Brazil Figure 38: 2012 Doing Business ranking by country grouping Russia Other Emerging Economies Emerging EU OECD high-income Resolving Inso...
... THE WORLD BANK PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVE INSOLVENCY AND CREDITOR RIGHTS SYSTEMS April 2001 Contents INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .2 THE PRINCIPLES ... financial system and in articulating and applying standards and assessment methodologies for core system elements The Principles and Guidelines for Effective Insolvency...
... Scheme: Choosing the Set of Semantic Roles Because of the difficulty of defining a universal set of semantic or thematic roles covering all types of predicates, PropBank defines semantic roles on a ... to semantic- role annotation, including the types of roles chosen and the guidelines for the annotators Section compares our PropBank methodology and choice...
... Management in the Public Sector FOREWORD Public expenditure issues are encountered wherever there is a discussion of government, the public sector, and development Over the years, the World Bank ... mholmes@worldbank.org Additional material on public expenditure management, much of it elaborating on and updating material in the handbook, can be found on the Ban...