Documents et rapports
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics experimental evidence from Sri Lanka (anglais)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics experimental evidence from Sri Lanka, conducted during...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81205 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,De Mel,Suresh,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall
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Collateral registries for movable assets : does their introduction spur firms' access to bank finance ? (anglais)
Using firm-level surveys for up to 73 countries, this paper explores the impact of introducing collateral registries for movable assets on firms' access to bank finance. It compares firms' access to bank...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6477 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Love,Inessa,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad,Singh,Sandeep
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Incentive audits : a new approach to financial regulation (anglais)
A large body of evidence points to misaligned incentives as having a key role in the run-up to the global financial crisis. These include bank managers' incentives to boost short-term profits and create...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6308 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cihak,Martin,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Johnston, R. Barry
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Bank regulation and supervision around the world : a crisis update (anglais)
This paper presents the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey, and explores two questions. First, were there significant differences in regulation and supervision between...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6286 Date du document: 1 décembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cihak,Martin,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad,Mohseni-Cheraghlou,Amin
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How does deposit insurance affect bank risk ? evidence from the recent crisis (anglais)
Deposit insurance is widely offered in a number of countries as part of a financial system safety net to promote stability. An unintended consequence of deposit insurance is the reduction in the incentive...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6289 Date du document: 1 décembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anginer,Deniz,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Zhu, Min
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Bank ownership and lending patterns during the 2008-2009 financial crisis : evidence from Latin America and Eastern Europe (anglais)
This paper examines the impact of bank ownership on credit growth in developing countries before and during the 2008-2009 crisis. Using bank-level data for countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6195 Date du document: 1 septembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cull,Robert J.,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad
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How bank competition affects firms' access to finance (anglais)
Combining multi-year, firm-level surveys with country-level panel data for 53 countries, the authors explore the impact of bank competition on firms' access to finance. They find that low competition...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6163 Date du document: 1 août 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Love,Inessa,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka (anglais)
The authors conduct a randomized experiment among women in urban Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6145 Date du document: 1 juillet 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Mel,Suresh,Mckenzie,David J.,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall
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Bank ownership and credit over the business cycle : is lending by state banks less procyclical? (anglais)
This paper finds that lending by state banks is less procyclical than lending by private banks, especially in countries with good governance. Lending by state banks in high-income countries is even countercyclical...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6110 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bertay,Ata Can,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Huizinga,Harry P.
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Financial inclusion in Africa : an overview (anglais)
This paper summarizes financial inclusion across Africa. First, it provides a brief overview of the African financial sector landscape. Second, it uses the Global Financial Inclusion Indicators (Global...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6088 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Klapper,Leora
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Financial literacy around the world : an overview of the evidence with practical suggestions for the way forward (anglais)
Financial literacy programs are fast becoming a key ingredient in financial policy reform worldwide. Yet, what is financial literacy exactly and what do we know of its effectiveness? This paper collects...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6107 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Xu,Lisa Lynn,Zia,Bilal Husnain
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Financing of firms in developing countries : lessons from research (anglais)
This paper reviews and synthesizes theoretical and empirical research on the role of finance in developing countries. First, the paper presents the stylized facts about firms in developing nations as well...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6036 Date du document: 1 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ayyagari,Meghana,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Maksimovic,Vojislav
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Distortions in the international migrant labor market :evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks (anglais)
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product shocks in destination countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6041 Date du document: 1 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Theoharides, Caroline,Yang,Dean
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External finance and firm survival in the aftermath of the crisis : evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia (anglais)
Two data sets are used to study how country and firm characteristics affected firms' financial constraints and their likelihood of survival during the early phase of the recent global financial crisis...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6050 Date du document: 1 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Clarke,George R.,Cull,Robert J.,Kisunko,Gregory
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How accurate are recall data ? evidence from coastal India (anglais)
This paper investigates the accuracy of recall data by comparing administrative records with retrospective, self-reported survey responses to income and asset questions for a sample of self-employed households...
Numéro du rapport: WPS6009 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gine,Xavier,De Nicola,Francesca
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How does bank competition affect systemic stability ? (anglais)
Using bank level measures of competition and co-dependence, the authors show a robust positive relationship between bank competition and systemic stability. Whereas much of the extant literature has focused...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5981 Date du document: 1 février 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anginer,Deniz,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Zhu, Min
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A tale of two species : revisiting the effect of registration reform on informal business owners in Mexico (anglais)
Different views have been put forward to explain why most firms in developing countries operate informally. One view argues that informal-business owners are entrepreneurs who do not register their firm...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5971 Date du document: 1 février 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam
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Has the global banking system become more fragile over time ? (anglais)
This paper examines time-series and cross-country variations in default risk co-dependence in the global banking system. The authors construct a default risk measure for all publicly traded banks using...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5849 Date du document: 1 octobre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anginer,Deniz,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli
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Patterns of business creation, survival and growth : evidence from Africa (anglais)
The authors study firm dynamics using a novel database of all formally registered firms in Cote d'Ivoire from 1977 to 1997, which account for about 60 percent of gross domestic product. First, they examine...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5828 Date du document: 1 octobre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Klapper,Leora,Richmond,Christine J.
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Remittances and financial inclusion : evidence from El Salvador (anglais)
This paper investigates the impact of remittances on financial inclusion. This is an important issue given recent studies showing that financial inclusion can have significant beneficial effects on households...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5839 Date du document: 1 octobre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anzoategui,Diego,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Martinez Peria,Maria Soledad