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  • Unlocking the Potential of Viet Nam’s Capital Markets (English)

    Viet Nam, one of the fastest growing economies in the world in the past two decades, is aiming to become a high-income country by 2045. The role of capital markets, as a key element of a financial system...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 187911 Document Date: December 31, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kusuma,Ketut Ariadi,Sullivan,Matthew,Bango,Zsolt,Davis,Richard Mark,Zhao,Jing,Shindo,Tetsutaro,O'Reilly Gurhy,Bryan,Price, Will,Ngo,Quan Ha,Hang, Nguyen Le,Ta,Trang Minh

  • Chile - Financial Sector Assessment Program : Technical Note - Pension System (English)

    The pension system in Chile is known for the 1980 establishment of a defined contribution, individual account system managed by private pension funds (AFPs). In 2008 a major reform of the system took place...

    Document Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) Report No.: 174046 Document Date: October 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cohen,Charles,Dijkman,Miquel,Opferkuch,Beulah Chelva,Davis,Richard Mark,Stewart,Fiona Elizabeth

  • Estimating the Gains from International Diversification : The Case of Pension Funds (English)

    For pension funds, international assets represent an opportunity to improve their returns while possibly reducing risks. Nonetheless, pension funds in many developing countries face regulations that limit...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9635 Document Date: April 20, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Afanador,Juan Pablo,Davis,Richard Mark,Pedraza Morales,Alvaro Enrique

  • Estimating the Gains from International Diversification : The Case of Pension (English)

    For pension funds, international assets represent an opportunity to improve their returns while possibly reducing risks. Nonetheless, pension funds in many developing countries face regulations that limit...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 158654 Document Date: March 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Afanador Mojica,Juan Pablo,Davis,Richard Mark,Pedraza Morales,Alvaro Enrique

  • Pension Funds and Financial Repression (English)

    Pension funds in some economies are used as a captive audience to channel capital at below market rates to government. This policy is only one tool in the financial repression toolkit, but it is receiving...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 158984 Document Date: January 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Stewart,Fiona Elizabeth,Knaack,Peter

  • India - Groundwater governance case study (English)

    Groundwater comprises 97 percent of the worlds readily accessible freshwater and provides the rural, urban, industrial and irrigation water supply needs of 2 billion people around the world. As the more...

    Document Type: Other Environmental Study Report No.: 71727 Document Date: June 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Garduno,Hector,Romani,Saleem,Sengupta, Buba,Tuinhof,Albert

  • Ukraine - The impact of higher natural gas and oil prices (Ukrainian)

    This note addresses the issue of higher energy prices impact on Ukrainian economy. It concentrates on oil and natural gas prices, but notes how those prices relate to the price of other energy sources...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 38602 Document Date: December 6, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Ostojic,Dejan,Pindyyuk, Olga,Piontkivsky,Ruslan

  • Ukraine - The impact of higher natural gas and oil prices (English)

    This note addresses the issue of higher energy prices impact on Ukrainian economy. It concentrates on oil and natural gas prices, but notes how those prices relate to the price of other energy sources...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 38602 Document Date: December 6, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Ostojic,Dejan,Pindyyuk, Olga,Piontkivsky,Ruslan

  • Wetlands management (English)

    Many wetlands around the world are being lost or are under threat. In many cases, losses are caused by direct development activities such as irrigation systems, conversion to agricultural land, reclamation...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 26327 Document Date: March 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Hirji,Rafik Fatehali,Schutter, Joop de

  • Water conservation : irrigation (English)

    As demand for water continues to rise rapidly and new sources of supply become scarcer, the conservation of water is increasingly important. Competition among water users affects irrigated agriculture...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 26324 Document Date: March 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Hirji,Rafik Fatehali,Ochs,Walter John,Plusquellec,Herve Louis Paul

  • Lake management (English)

    According to the World Lake Vision (2003) it is estimated that lakes, both natural and manmade, store more than 90 percent of the world's surface fresh-water resources. They are heavily used for a variety...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 26326 Document Date: March 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Hirji,Rafik Fatehali,Mee, Lawrence

  • Wastewater reuse (English)

    As the demand for water increases and new sources of supply become more expensive to develop, there is an increasing need to use water more than once during the hydrological cycle. Wastewater from point...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 26325 Document Date: March 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Gool, Hugo van,Hirji,Rafik Fatehali

  • Environmental flows : case studies (English)

    The flows of the world's rivers are increasingly being modified through impoundments such as dams and weirs, extractions for agriculture and urban supply, maintenance of flows for navigation, inflows of...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 26122 Document Date: March 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Hirji,Rafik Fatehali

  • Environmental flows : concepts and methods (English)

    The flows of the world's rivers are increasingly being modified through impoundments such as dams and weirs, abstractions for agriculture and urban supply, maintenance of lows for navigation, drainage...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 26320 Document Date: March 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Hirji,Rafik Fatehali