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Financial constraints and export market participation in the Arab Republic of...
Geographical location, important seaports, and airports are factors facilitating international trade in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The country’s natural access to sea routes through the Mediterranean...
View ArticleThe hidden costs of index investing in foreign markets
Cross-border portfolio investments are increasingly important in global markets. Since 2001, the share of equity holdings by foreign investors grew from 19 percent of the world's stock market...
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Foreign banks can play an important role in facilitating international trade. They can provide trade financing, enforce contracts, and reduce information asymmetries. Studies have shown that trade...
View ArticleIs there a natural resource curse in finance?
The natural resource curse has featured prominently in discussions on why many developing countries fail to grow. This curse takes on many flavours — adverse exchange rate effects, underinvestment in...
View ArticleBanking the unbanked: Measuring the success of JDY
There is a big debate about the role of financial markets and products in shaping consumer welfare and real economic activity. In developed economies, there is an increasing discussion that financial...
View ArticleNascent stock exchanges — tales of success and failure
Public equity markets are seen as a critical component of a developed financial system, with such markets going back to the 18th and 19th century in many advanced economies. There have been therefore...
View ArticleCan government subsidies spur science-industry collaboration and innovation?
Efforts to foster collaboration between science and industry have long been a part of innovation policy in many countries. Firms stand to benefit from accessing the specialized infrastructure and...
View ArticleAsia’s financial connections with the rest of the world: changing patterns
As economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have developed, they have also become important in international financial transactions, both as a source and destination of cross-border bank...
View ArticleNot all eggs in the same basket? The role of sectoral specialization in the...
Students of systemic banking distress point to concentration in specific asset classes or sectors as one of the most important factors explaining these crises. The last two global crises are good...
View ArticleWhat do we know about the link between financial inclusion and inclusive growth?
Adults around the world and in all income groups use a variety of financial services, ranging from digital payments and savings accounts to loans and insurance. Many low-income adults, however, rely...
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