China's transition experience, reexamined (Jeffrey Sachs and Wing Thye Woo). Latvian banking crisis: stakes and mistakes (Alex Fleming and Samuel Talley). Using World Bank credit lines for bank rehabilitation:...
A global market of US$30 billion a year. Company strategies. Reality checks for power forecasts. The real world of power sector regulation. Competitive contracting for privately generated power. Fiscal...
Depositors protection has become an important feature of most banking systems. Deposit insurance is a common approach -nearly all industrialized countries now have formal deposit insurance systems, although...
Building a sound, efficient financial system is at the heart of the transformation from central planning to a market economy. The vital function that the financial system performs in a market economy in...
In recent years, instability of the banking system has returned as a major problem in many countries, particularly in the developing world. In many cases, this instability has been so threatening to financial...
Banking systems in many countries have become increasingly unstable in recent years. At the same time, market forces have pushed banks to expand into a variety of universal banking activities without impairing...