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Finance & Development
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Bankable Assets Africa faces many obstacles in developing financial systems. New markets and institutions need to be able to flourish.   |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2007
Dollar & Wei |
Underutilized Capital If the investment bias toward inefficient state enterprises ended, China could increase living standards substantially without sacrificing growth. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Robert Rennhack |
Banking Supervision Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, like other emerging markets, have experienced banking system difficulties that have hampered growth and generated fiscal costs as high as 10 to 20 percent of GDP and even more. Many countries have improved their banking systems, but further reform is needed. |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Prasad & Rajan |
Next Generation Financial Reforms for India A new report advocates a shake-up in India's financial system to underpin growth |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Hans Dieter Seibel |
Agricultural Development Banks Close Them or Reform Them? Agricultural development banks were established to extend credit and other financial services to customers not considered creditworthy by commercial banks. Should these banks be closed or are they worth revamping? |
Entrepreneur
May 2006
David Worrell |
Sound Structure There are plenty of strategies you can use to fund your business's growth. The trick is picking the one that suits your company best. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
Pradeep K. Mitra & Marcelo Selowsky |
Lessons from a Decade of Transition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union A decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991, some transition economies are performing far better than others. Reducing barriers to entry is not enough -- hard budget constraints must also be imposed on the old money-losing state-owned enterprises. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Raj Desai & Itzhak Goldberg |
Stakeholders, Governance, and the Russian Enterprise Dilemma Over the past decade, Russia's efforts to achieve economic growth and restructure its economy have been seriously hampered by a dearth of investment and the proliferation of barter and arrears. Given current conditions, how might Russian economic reform efforts best be supported? |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Pedro Pou |
Argentina's Structural Reforms of the 1990s Argentina experienced serious economic and financial difficulties in the 1980s. Hyperinflation in 1989-90 finally elicited the necessary political consensus for reform. Despite areas of concern, structural reforms implemented in the 1990s have set Argentina on the path to sustained growth. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Mohammed El Qorchi |
Islamic Finance Gears Up While gaining ground, the Islamic financial products industry faces unique regulatory challenges. |
BusinessWeek
November 15, 2004
Balfour & Roberts |
The Leak In China's Banking System Frustrated with low returns, Chinese savers are taking money out of state banks and lending it themselves. |
FDIC FYI
January 14, 2003 |
Basel and the Evolution of Capital Regulation: Moving Forward, Looking Back How much capital is enough? How bank regulators have answered this question during the post World War II period has been shaped by two contending strands of thought. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
William P. Mako |
Corporate Restructuring in East Asia: Promoting Best Practices A number of East Asian corporations, saddled with debt, nearly collapsed during the financial crisis of 1997. Many have managed to avoid both repayment and restructuring, however, and remain overly indebted and invested in unprofitable businesses... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Gerd Hausler |
The Globalization of Finance Financial globalization has brought considerable benefits to national economies and to investors and savers, but it has also changed the structure of markets, creating new risks and challenges for market participants and policymakers... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2007
Aziz & Dunaway |
China's Rebalancing Act China's economic miracle may be at risk unless the country relies more on domestic consumption. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Eswar S. Prasad |
Next Steps for China Why financial sector reform is a crucial element of a long-term economic growth strategy. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Gulde & Pattillo |
Adding Depth Africa can achieve even higher economic growth through financial sector reform. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Harry G. Broadman |
Competition and Business Entry in Russia Reforming anticompetitive business structures and lowering barriers to entry are key to Russia's post-privatization reform program... |
OCC Bulletin
April 4, 2001 |
Leveraged Financing Guidance for bankers and examiners that more fully describes supervisory expectations regarding sound practices for leveraged financing activities. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
A Closer Look at Bank Stocks These investors must deal with unusual terms and funny-looking financial statements, but the rewards can be well worth it. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Dadush, Dasgupta, & Ratha |
The Role of Short-Term Debt in Recent Crises The 1990s witnessed a boom in short-term lending by international banks to developing countries that lasted until Asia's financial crisis erupted in 1997. By 1997, nearly 60 percent of all outstanding international bank claims on developing countries had a remaining maturity of less than one year. |
Inc.
June 2007
Elaine Appleton Grant |
High-Risk Loans--From a Nonprofit Community funds are filling a gap for people and companies that have little collateral, are in the early stages of development, or have less than pristine credit. |
U.S. Banker
November 2002
Karen Krebsbach |
Citigroup's Big Bet on China China is the final financial frontier for U.S. banks, as the country's protectionist measures begin to dissolve under WTO membership. Citibank, which has been offering corporate services on the mainland since 1902, is poised to grab a large share. But will being the early bird pay off? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Andrew Sheng |
The Art of Reform Both domestic and global investors will look to regulatory assessments to judge for themselves the quality of Asia's market governance. And they might also want to remind themselves of the ancient dictum: he who knows the competition and himself wins in the global competitive game. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
A Closer Look at Bank Stocks Learn the secrets of investing in this often-intimidating sector. |
CFO
October 1, 2011
Randy Myers |
Getting There from Here As more U.S. companies expand overseas, new sources of capital are opening up. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Claudio M. Loser & Martine Guerguil |
The Long Road to Financial Stability Most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean weathered the economic crises of the late 1990s better than expected, thanks to the policy reforms of the past two decades. Further reform is urgently needed, however, to put the region on a faster growth path and reduce its vulnerability to external shocks. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2006
Hilbers, Otker-Robe & Pazarba |
Going too Fast? Managing rapid credit growth in Central and Eastern Europe. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jul/Aug 2008
Essa & Hoskote |
Fast Funding Asset-based financing provides quicker access to securing loans. |
BusinessWeek
March 8, 2004
Frederik Balfour |
Chinese Reform Picks Up Speed Beijing is making smart moves, but bad loans are still a big problem |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Cem Karacadag & Michael W. Taylor |
Toward a New Global Banking Standard: The Basel Committee's Proposals The Basel Committee's new capital framework proposals will have important implications for developed and developing countries alike. Although many details remain to be worked out, it is not too early for countries to start preparing for the proposals' implementation. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Paul Hilbers, Russell Krueger, & Marina Moretti |
New Tools for Assessing Financial System Soundness Macroprudential indicators--defined broadly as indicators of the health and stability of the financial system--can help countries assess their banking systems' vulnerability to crisis. In recent years, an increasing amount of work has been done on such indicators... |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 27, 2008
David Conroy |
Corporate Clients Increasingly Looking to Banks to Mitigate Trade Finance Risks How can banks pursue growth opportunities in global trade finance in, for example, emerging markets? What technology investments must banks make to meet these new demands? |
Inc.
January 1, 2003
Martin Mayer |
A Borrower Be Tough economies and easy credit usually don't mix. So why are banks falling all over themselves to lend small businesses money? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Tomas J.T. Balino & Angel Ubide |
The New World of Banking Four trends are fundamentally altering the financial world: consolidation of institutions, globalization of operations, development of new technologies, and universalization of banking. Each of these poses challenges for the effective supervision and regulation of the financial sector.... |
CFO
March 1, 2008
Karen M. Kroll |
Pedaling As Fast As They Can Companies will now need to work harder for credit, as banks' markedly different posture on lending money is affecting businesses of all stripes -- not just those in default. |
OCC Bulletin
May 22, 2002 |
Unsafe and Unsound Investment Portfolio Practices Description: Supplemental Guidance This bulletin alerts banks to the potential risk to future earnings and capital from poor investment decisions made at the current low level of interest rates... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Noel Sacasa |
Preventing Future Crises The financial crisis has exposed weaknesses in the current regulatory and supervisory frameworks and made it clear that we are in need of regulatory reform. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Kang & Miniane |
Global Financial Turmoil Tests Asia As the global financial crisis spreads, how will Asia weather the storm? |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Eswar Prasad |
Rebalancing Growth in Asia Asian emerging markets can improve their economic welfare by rebalancing growth toward domestic demand. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Emine Gurgen |
Central Asia: Achievements and Prospects Although the five Central Asian countries in transition have made progress in moving to a market economy, they still have far to go and need to intensify their reform efforts. |
Entrepreneur
July 2006
Mark Henricks |
The Money Market From banks to VCs, there's plenty of cash out there for entrepreneurs. But that doesn't mean the road to finding financing has gotten any shorter or smoother. |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004
Dexter Roberts |
Worrying About China Is it growing too fast? Can Beijing hold the financial system together? Will economic reform materialize? |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2007
Ben Johnson |
Small Banks, Big Risks In the new era of commercial real estate lending, federal regulators are pressuring even the smallest banks to upgrade their portfolio analysis capabilities to avoid the pitfalls of past downturns. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Keller et al. |
The Bottom Line Weaknesses in public and private sector balance sheets could be the sign of a crisis in the making. |
The Motley Fool
December 4, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Avoid the Loan Sharks For those with less-than-perfect credit histories, there's a scary trend in personal finance these days. In the name of convenience, some borrowers are digging themselves into a hole from which they may never emerge. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Wim Fonteyne |
EU: From Monetary to Financial Union The choice is not between a centralized and a decentralized framework, but about the degree of centralization that will give Europe the best tools to manage risks to its financial stability without impeding the integration process itself. |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Blackstone's Bankless Future What a difference a year has made in the private equity business. |
AskMen.com
March 4, 2001
Luis Rodrigues |
The Truth About Bank Loans When the time comes to borrow money from the bank to buy a house, a car or start a business, people still get extremely stressed about meeting with the banking loans officer... |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Jack Ewing |
Creative Financing For The Small Fry Europe's mid-cap businesses discover new ways to raise cash. |
