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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin - 2017

With extensive country and firm-level data sets, this paper first documents that the financial sectors of most Sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. The paper also finds that population density appears to be considerably...

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Prospective Deficits and the Asian Currency Crises

Rebelo, Sergio T.; Eichenbaum, Martin; Burnside, A. Craig - 2005

The recent Asian currency crisis was caused by large prospective fiscal deficits associated with implicit bailout guarantees to failing banking systems. Absent the political will to raise taxes or cut spending, governments must resort to seignorage revenues to pay for the bailout of the banking...

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Egypt Beyond the Crisis : Medium-Term Challenges for Sustained Growth

Herrera, Santiago - 2017

The paper analyzes the impact of the recent global crisis in the context of the previous two decades' growth and capital flows. Growth decomposition exercises show that Egyptian growth is driven mostly by capital accumulation. To estimate the share of labor in national income, the analysis...

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Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

This paper examines the role of the public sector in providing additional information to exporters in developing countries as they seek to monitor and keep open their access to foreign markets by using the rules of the WTO system. It highlights new information generation and dissemination...

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Notes on Patents, Distortions, and Development

Wodon, Quentin T. - 2017

The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory propertyy right that allows the inventor to appropriate part of the returns from his invention. In developing countries, two types of considerations need to be addressed. First,...

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The Global Financial Crisis and Development Thinking

Rogers, F. Halsey - 2017

The global financial crisis has not only dealt a major blow to the global economy, but also shaken confidence in economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures, especially in the housing bubble and its transmission...

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Concentration in the Banking Sector and Financial Stability : New Evidence

Calice, Pietro - 2018

Theory suggests that the effect of banking market concentration on financial stability is mediated by several competing …

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Access to Financial Services and the Financial Inclusion Agenda Around the World : A Cross-Country Analysis with a New Data Set

Ardic, Oya Pinar - 2017

Recent empirical evidence highlights that access to basic financial services can make a substantial positive difference in improving poor people's lives. Accordingly, financial sector reforms that promote financial inclusion are increasingly at the core of policymakers? agendas. The Consultative...

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Learning from Financial Crises

Lim, Jamus Jerome - 2017

This paper considers the question of whether international banks learn from their previous crisis experiences and reduce their lending to developing countries in the event of a financial crisis. The analysis combines a bank-level dataset of bank activity and ownership with country-level data on...

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Sharing the Benefits of Innovation-Digitization : A Summary of Market Processes and Policy Suggestions

Islam, Roumeen - 2018

Governments play a very important role in supporting innovation, managing the disruptive effects of innovation, and … ensuring that the benefits of innovation are broadly shared in the long run. This paper reviews the literature on market … mechanisms that translate innovation into jobs and policies that are needed to improve outcomes. Although many countries now …

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