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Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Roberts Zile &Inna Steinbuka |
Latvia on the Way to the European Union Having met most of the criteria for membership in the European Union, Latvia is addressing a few remaining challenges. These include closing the income gap and achieving structural, fiscal, and monetary convergence...   |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Pedro Pou |
Argentina's Structural Reforms of the 1990s Argentina experienced serious economic and financial difficulties in the 1980s. Hyperinflation in 1989-90 finally elicited the necessary political consensus for reform. Despite areas of concern, structural reforms implemented in the 1990s have set Argentina on the path to sustained growth. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Roger Nord |
Central and Eastern Europe and the New Financial Architecture As the Central and Eastern European countries prepare to join the European Union, they are participating in worldwide efforts to strengthen the global economy... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Robert Rennhack |
Banking Supervision Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, like other emerging markets, have experienced banking system difficulties that have hampered growth and generated fiscal costs as high as 10 to 20 percent of GDP and even more. Many countries have improved their banking systems, but further reform is needed. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2000
Tomas J.T. Balino & Angel Ubide |
The New World of Banking Four trends are fundamentally altering the financial world: consolidation of institutions, globalization of operations, development of new technologies, and universalization of banking. Each of these poses challenges for the effective supervision and regulation of the financial sector.... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Carstens & Luis I. Jacome H. |
Taming the Monster How Latin America's central banks survived hyperinflation to become guardians of price stability. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Cihak & Mitra |
Losing Their Halo Many countries in central and eastern Europe are finding it hard to adjust to the new economic reality |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Marek Belka |
Europe Under Stress The global economic crisis is testing the cohesion of the European Union |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Bakker & Gulde |
Searching for Stability Eastern Europe rode a decade-long boom into a serious bust and now must figure out how to restart growth on a more even keel. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Nsouli & Schaechter |
Challenges of the "E-Banking Revolution" Electronic banking is the wave of the future. It provides enormous benefits to consumers in terms of the ease and cost of transactions. But it also poses new challenges for country authorities in regulating and supervising the financial system and in macroeconomic policy. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2000
Stanley Fischer & Ratna Sahay |
Taking Stock Economic performance has differed widely among the transition economies. The best performers are countries that were the most committed to reform at the start and that have carried out reforms rapidly and consistently. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2002
Lipschitz et al. |
The Tosovsky Dilemma: Capital Surges in Transition Countries Transition countries that open themselves up to global capital markets are vulnerable to large and potentially erratic flows. Such flows should not be seen as one-off destabilizing events: they are intrinsic to the transition process and therefore need to be factored into policy formulation. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Duvvuri Subbarao |
Redefining Central Banking Central banks must distill lessons from the global crisis and make concrete reforms. |
Chemistry World
August 20, 2013 |
Latvian scientists look for the exit as funding situation worsens Recent events have left hundreds of scientists in Latvia -- without research funding and looking to either leave the country or research. |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2009
Yarek Aranowicz |
All Disquieting on the Eastern Front The contagion in Central and Eastern Europe has been called the worst economic crisis since the collapse of communism. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
David Fairlamb |
The Blooming of the Baltics As EU members, they'll bring fresh entrepreneurial vigor. |
FDIC FYI
November 26, 2002 |
Quarterly Banking Profile Commercial Banking Performance, Third Quarter 2002 Gains on securities sales keep earnings near record level... Weakness in overseas operations limits industry profits... Margins improve at community banks, decline at larger institutions... Strong mortgage demand fuels growth in loans... Asset-quality problems continue to grow at large banks |
Bank Technology News
December 2008
Michael Dumiak |
East On Ice Many American banks will be preoccupied this year with keeping their own doors open and staying ahead of the global economic crisis; but the issue of outsourcing abroad, how much and to where, is a vital strategic question that must be addressed. |
BusinessWeek
June 23, 2011
Ummelas & Eglitis |
In Eastern Europe, Cold Feet About Joining the Euro East Europeans have to decide if they want the pain and now-dubious gain of qualifying for membership in the euro zone. |
Finance & Development
September 2009 |
Flows to Eastern Europe Foreign banks have supported eastern European banks, but the financial crisis has reversed this trend. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2009
Levisohn & Kalwarski |
The Allures and Perils of Foreign Government Bonds Non-U.S. government debt has rallied strongly - especially in emerging markets - but potential defaults are still a problem. |
