Financial access and stability: a road map for the Middle East and North Africa provides a diagnostic of financial development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and a road map for expanding access to finance while preserving financial stability. MENA has large banking system but also the highest loan concentration ratios in the world, reflecting the focus of bank large and well-…
this book isvestigate the impact of these demographic changes on several dimension of the brazilian economy and society. It does so in a comprehensive and systematic way that captures the broad complexity and interrelationship of the issues, from economic growth to poverty reduction, from public financing of social services and transfers to savings and from education and employment to health an…
Provides a review of the design and experience of risk-based pension fund supervision in countries that have been leaders in the development of these methods. The utilization of risk-based methods originates primarily in the supervision of banks. In recent years it has increasingly been extended to other types of financial intermediaries, including pension fund and insurers. The trend toward ri…