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  • Capital for the future : saving and investment in an interdependent world (Chinese)

    The aim of this edition of global development horizons is to build scenarios for the global economy over, roughly, the next two decades, with special focus given to saving and investment. Developing countries'...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 77743 Document Date: November 5, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Bussolo,Maurizio,Dailami,Mansoor,Timmer,Hans

  • Capital for the future : saving and investment in an interdependent world (English)

    The aim of this edition of global development horizons is to build scenarios for the global economy over, roughly, the next two decades, with special focus given to saving and investment. Developing countries'...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 77743 Document Date: May 9, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Basu,Kaushik Chandra,Bussolo,Maurizio,Dailami,Mansoor,Timmer,Hans

  • What does the future hold for the international banking system? (English)

    The international banking industry faces a challenging future, having to consolidate at a time of heightened global financial volatility, anemic growth in advanced countries, and shifting global growth...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 73368 Document Date: October 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dailami,Mansoor,Adams-Kane,Jonathon

  • Looking beyond the euro area sovereign debt crisis (English)

    Three years into the euro area sovereign debt crisis, investors continue to shun periphery government bonds, European banks are under severe funding pressures in both the dollar and euro private term markets...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 67354 Document Date: March 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dailami,Mansoor

  • Bilateral M&A activity from the global south (English)

    This paper studies the factors associated with outbound bilateral mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity by firms located in emerging economies. The authors document recent trends in emerging market M&A...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5953 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dailami,Mansoor,Kurlat,Sergio Andres,Lim,Jamus Jerome

  • Global development horizons 2011 : Multipolarity - the new global economy (English)

    The world economy is in the midst of a transformative change. One of the most visible outcomes of this transformation is the rise of a number of dynamic emerging-market countries to the helm of the global...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 62698 Document Date: June 13, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Timmer,Hans,Dailami,Mansoor,Irving,Jacqueline Theresa,Hauswald,Robert B.H.,Masson,Paul R.

  • Global development horizons 2011 : Multipolarity - the new global economy (Chinese)

    The world economy is in the midst of a transformative change. One of the most visible outcomes of this transformation is the rise of a number of dynamic emerging-market countries to the helm of the global...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 62698 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Timmer,Hans,Dailami,Mansoor,Irving,Jacqueline Theresa,Hauswald,Robert B.H.,Masson,Paul R.

  • A vision for development : dialogues on the work of Vinod Thomas (English)

    This book examines the 35-year career of Vinod Thomas. He spent those 35 years within the World Bank Group in different positions and in different regions. This book is organized in four parts. First...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 73355 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rist, Ray C. [editor],Wolfensohn,James D.,Thomas,Vinod,Summers,Lawrence Henry,Fischer,Stanley,Leipziger,Danny M.,Nash,John D.,Edwards,Sebastian,Hutcheson,Thomas L.,Keesing,Donald B.,Matin,Kazi Mahbub-Al,Pursell,Garry,Yeats,Alexander James,Dailami,Mansoor,Dhareshwar,Ashok M.,Kaufmann,Daniel,Kishor,Nalin M.,Lopez-Rivera,Ramon,Wang, Yan,Stiglitz,Joseph Eugene,dos Reis Velloso, Joao Paulo,Junguito,Roberto,Mohan,Rakesh,Tolley, George S.,Georgieva,Kristalina I.,Gressani,Daniela,Grasso,Patrick G.,Boehmer,Hans-Martin,Tominaga,Jiro

  • Sovereign debt distress and corporate spillover impacts (English)

    In much of the standard corporate finance literature in which sovereign debt is treated as a risk free asset, corporate bond prices are seen to depend on idiosyncratic risk factors specific to the issuing...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5380 Document Date: July 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dailami,Mansoor

  • The new multi-polar international monetary system (English)

    Backed by rapid economic growth, growing financial clout, and a newfound sense of assertiveness in recent years, the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India, and China - are a driving force behind an incipient...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5147 Document Date: December 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dailami,Mansoor,Masson,Paul R.

  • Core course : building knowledge and expertise in infrastructure finance (English)

    The Economic Development Institute (EDI), in partnership with the University of Maryland Business School conducted a core course on infrastructure finance in Washington, D.C., from June 15-26, 1998. A...

    Document Type: WBI Working Paper Report No.: 49425 Document Date: August 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dailami,Mansoor

  • Global development finance 2005 : mobilizing finance and managing vulnerability (Vol. 3 of 3) : Summary (Chinese)

    This report is comprised of two volumes. Global Development Finance 2005 I: Analysis and Statistical Appendix addresses two key challenges in development finance: first, how to raise resources flowing...

    Document Type: Global Development Finance - formerly World Debt Tables Report No.: 34414 Document Date: April 20, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aykut,Dilek,Burns,Andrew,Bush,Neil Richard,Dailami,Mansoor,Hostland,Douglas,Kalsi,Himmat S.,Kim,Eung Ju,Lewis,Jeffrey D.-000361451,Ratha, Dilep,Van Horen,Neeltje

  • The emerging project bond market - covenant provisions and credit spreads (English)

    The emergence in the 1990s of a nascent project bond market to fund long-term infrastructure projects in developing countries merits attention. The authors compile detailed information on a sample of 105...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3095 Document Date: July 31, 2003 Disclosure Status: Author: Dailami,Mansoor,Hauswald,Robert B.H.

  • Managing risks of capital mobility (English)

    Inherent in pursuing openness to international capital flows is an awareness that it brings both benefits and risks. Much of the current debate is about how best to balance them. Major benefits for developing...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2199 Document Date: October 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Author: Dailami,Mansoor