In Armenia, 4 percent of households have a family member who is currently abroad, while 23 percent have someone who migrated in the past and has since returned. Migration is most common in the Lori and...
Digitalization accelerated by the pandemic has exponentially increased the number and variability of alternative data sources. The stay-at-home requirements during the pandemic forced several business...
Ratings for the Mining and Environmental Remediation and Improvement Project for Zambia were as follows: outcomes were moderately unsatisfactory, the Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and...
The authorities have made significant progress on their comprehensive debt restructuring strategy. They completed the domestic debt restructuring last year and the restructuring of their Eurobonds in October...
With their large, often unparalleled, retail outreach to otherwise underserved areas and populations, Cooperative Financial Institutions (CFIs) have significant potential to deepen financial inclusion...
This report focuses on the Ukraine war and its impact on the following: (i) conflict matters; (ii) firm resilience and adaptation at limit; and (iii) direct government support remains low.
En el ejercicio de 2024, el Grupo Banco Mundial adoptó una nueva y audaz visión de un mundo sin pobreza en un planeta habitable. Para lograrlo, está llevando adelante reformas que lo ayuden a convertirse...
Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. Launched in September 2008, RPW monitors the cost incurred by remitters when sending money along...
In 2009, when International Finance Corporation (IFC) and State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) set out to assist the Kyrgyz Republic in building a robust modern credit infrastructure, about a...
From 2009 to 2019, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, SECO, collaborated to support Tajikistan in developing sustainable credit information sharing...
This document highlights major advancements in financial inclusion, especially with the PIX payment system. However, financial consumers are increasingly at risk from fraud, scams, over-indebtedness, and...