... and the World Health Organization. The following multilateral development banks were represented at the Part-nership Forum: African Development Bank; AsianDevelopment Bank; European Bank ... levels of society. Katherine Sierra, World Bank, noted that when the World Bank Group set out to design the CIF they wanted to demonstrate action on the ground. She said they wanted to move ... further discussions on the need to further define climate resilience. The third group reported that their deliberations focused on bringing existing institutions together. They underscored the...
... of bad assets off the Industrial and Commercial Bank ofChina Limited (ICBC), now the largest listed bank in the world.13 The model, of course, involved land. Many of the bankrupt local state-ownedcompanies ... Approval. Then—like the Pied Piper—CDBloans led the osten sibly commercialized “big four” banks—Industr ial &Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Bank of China,and Agricultural Bank ... that the centralgovernment would never stop the flow of credit once projects werestarted, and the bigger the debt, the more they would be helped. Wheninvestors turned to the bond market, they...
... Since the mid-1980s, a growing number of documents by the World Bank and other development institutions have explored at length the dimensions of private sector development and its relevance to the ... providers, when they have no other option or when they prefer them, even if they charge for their services. Some limits on choice are nevertheless justified. For example, in health care the introduction ... in principle, have the choice to seek out private providers, when they have no other option or when they prefer them, even if they charge for their services. As part of the effort to build...
... emphasizes that the eco-nomic successes of the East Asian economies belies the notion that they were “dysfunctional economies.” This group of analysts states that the lack of transparency and the weakness ... lead to financial crisis—otherwise, what can explain the relative insulation from theAsian crisis for countries such as China and India? In the ten years since theAsian crisis, many scholarly ... Muchhala| 6 | The various participants in theAsian crisis ranged from Wall Street to Jakarta. Asian and Western governments, the private sector, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF, or the Fund),...
... the time in policy circles in Jakarta that the list of structural reforms in IMF programs “was grabbed by the IMF team off the shelf of the Jakarta office of the World Bank. ”9 Critics of the ... experience, the middle-income Asian countries have ac-cumulated large reserve holdings and have, for the most part, removed themselves from the influence of the Fund. The author writes of the pro-cess ... which the crisis-af-fected economies were able to achieve sustained economic growth from the mid-1980s to the onset of theAsian crisis in mid-1997. Another key precondition for East Asian...
... India, 1993.2/ These are the 7 state banks (five state-owned commercial banks, a former development bank, and a former savings bank) ;as of March 1994 they held 44% deposits of banking system ... mostconcentrated banking system in the region, with the top three banks having about a 3/4 share of the total loan market. In Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand, the top three banks have about halfof the ... December. 40World Bank, 1995, The Emerging Asian Bond Market, World Bank, Asia and Pacific Region,June.World Bank, 1997a, Global Development Finance, World Bank, Washington, D.C.World Bank, 1997b,...
... for all thebank and market interest rate series used. The IPS test on the null hypothesis of a unit root cannot be rejected at the 5% significance level for either thebank rates or the market ... Given the prominent role of the banking sector in the euro area’s financial system, it is of significant importance for the ECB to monitor the degree of competitive behaviour in the euro area banking ... that the behaviour of banks is between these two extreme cases, so that banks generally pass on at least part of their efficiency gains to their clients. More precisely, we assume that the banks’...
... influenced by the relative weight of the maturities of their components : given the positive slope of the yield curve during the crisis, the greater the amounts at short maturi-ties, the lower the average ... and u are the error terms. The term in the parentheses is the cointegration vector and represents the long-term relationship between the interest rates, whereas the rest of each of the equations ... 27Central bank rates, market rates and retail bank rates in the euro area in the Context of the reCent CrisisCentral bank rates, market rates and retail bank rates in the euro area in the context...
... AsDB = AsianDevelopment Bank, AsDF =Asian Development Fund, BADEA = Arab-African Development Bank, BOAD = West African Development Bank, EADB = East African Development Bank, EDB = Eurasian Development ... Trade Bank of Latin America, FONPLATA = Financial Fund for theDevelopment of the River Plate Basin, BDAN = North American Development Bank, AfDB = African Development Bank, AfDF = African Development ... MDBs to describe these trends in the LAC region. In general we prioritize the dynamics between the World Bank and the Inter-American DevelopmentBank (IDB), but recognize the growing importance...
... on the borrower and on the value of collateral that thebank receives. For instance, a positive shock to the value of the collateral that is pledged to banks implies a lower risk for thebank ... describing banks. This strand of the literature focuses on the prevalence of superior information with regard to the success of investment projects on the side of the borrower vis-à-vis the bank. The ... originates in the behaviour of the central bank and banks. A common distinction made in this respect is the supply of “outside money” provided by the central bank – consisting of banknotes and banks’...