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  International Banking and Financial Market Developments [quarterly report]

  Bank for International Settlements, 1999

  Commentary on recent developments in international banking, securities and global derivatives makets It is divided into four parts.Part 1 provides an overview of the main underlying trends that appear to have emerged in recent months in international financial markets.
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  Guide to the BIS statistics on international banking

  Bank for International Settlements, 1999

  This Guide to the BIS statistics on international banking was prepared primarily for the use of the institutions which report these data to the BIS, but is now being made more generally available as an aid for users of the statistics.
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  Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business: Region by Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  More than 3,600 entrepreneurs world-wide respond to a survey about problems with uncertainty in dealings with the state.Case studies and anecdotal evidence have suggested that uncertainty about policies, laws, and regulations has hampered development of the private sector in many developing countries.
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  Stock Markets, Banks, and Economic Growth

  Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 1996

  Dataset available onlineDo well-functioning stock markets and banks promote long-run economic growth? This paper shows that stock market liquidity and banking development both positively, predict growth, capital accumulation, and productivity improvements when entered together in regressions, even after controlling for economic and political factors.
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  CARE Village Banks Project, Guatemala

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998

  The Women’s Village Banking (VB) Program of CARE Guatemala provides particularly interesting insights into some of the issues and challenges facing village banking programs around the world. Like many programs started in the 1980's, the CARE VB program was created as an experiment in the increasingly popular field of microenterprise finance.
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  FINCA: Insights from a unique approach to village banking [in Costa Rica]

  Sustainable Banking with the Poor ,World Bank, 1998

  FINCA Costa Rica has been both a leader and a non-conformist in village banking. As one of the first village banking examples in Latin America, the program offers valuable lessons to other village banking institutions. While still retaining the FINCA name, FINCA Costa Rica has split from FINCA International, the US-based NGO that is credited with developing the village banking methodology.
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  How Businesses See Government: Responses from Private Sector Surveys in 69 Countries

  International Finance Corporation, 1997

  Report on world-wide private sector survey which included a part on government-related obstacles to doing business. Entrepreneurs were asked to rate a list of 15 obstacles for their seriousness. This paper presents the results of almost 4000 entrepreneurs’ responses in 69 countries using a detailed regional breakup into 22 regions.
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  Biotechnology and the changing public / private sector balance: developments in rice and cocoa

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  This study examines the potential impact of changes in the public/private sector balance for biotechnology development and diffusion in developing country agriculture. It focuses on biotechnology related to two important developing country crops: rice and cocoa.