Despite far-reaching banking sector reforms over the past few years, financial intermediation in Tajikistan continues to lag behind structural peers and the Caucasus and Central Asia region. At the same...
This paper summarizes evidence on financial instruments and regulatory approaches to spur private investment in pursuit of the 2030 Sustainable Developments Goals. Starting from a theoretical framework...
World Bank trust funds are financial instruments that create partnerships and platforms for financial, knowledge, and other collaborations around the world and across every area of development. They accept...
This Guidance Note (GN) aims to explain in a practical way certain requirements related to Financial Intermediary (FI) clients and to provide guidance to FI clients and IFC staff in making IFC FI projects...
Ratings for the Regional Infrastructure Development Fund Project for Indonesia were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality...
Value added tax (VAT) is the largest source of tax revenue on average in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), at 27.7 percent of total tax revenues in 2019. The need for action to ensure that VAT is...