Dossier 2013/02

Banking

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Customers at a branch office of Acleda Bank in Cambodia.
Editorial
– by Hans Dembowski

Specific business models

All dimensions of unspectacular, conventional banking are needed to drive development
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Financial markets
– by Jayati Ghosh

Too much of the same

Globally harmonised banking regulation does not serve developing countries’ needs
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Finance
– by Geoffrey Muzigiti, Oliver Schmidt

Moving forward

Financial inclusion is poor in sub-Saharan Africa, but improving thanks to formal sector banks and microfinance providers.
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Public-sector bank
– by Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho

Relative insulation

Brazil’s state-owned development Bank BNDES is probably more powerful than many of the country’s federal ministries
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Multilateral institutions
– by Kathrin Berensmann, Ulrich Volz, et al.

Crisis credit

The IMF and multilateral development banks support middle-income countries , but bypass low-income countries in global financial crisis
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International Finance Institutions
– by Korinna Horta

Most relevant review

The World Bank is reviewing its social and environmental Safeguards – and civil society organisations fear dilution
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Financial markets
Brazil’s financial regulators do not rely on ratings: a bank client at a cash point
– by Karl Heinz Bächstädt, Markus Henn, et al.

Rating lords

How rating agencies thwart development
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Food security
The CBOT exchange in Chicago is the heart of global speculation in agricultural commodities
– by Benjamin Luig, Armin Paasch

Risks compounded

Food security is hampered by financial speculation and liberalisation of commodity markets
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Post-2015 agenda
– by Eva-Maria Verfürth

“New spirit”

Members of UN High-Level Panel on Post-2015 Agenda involve business leaders in debate
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Interview
– by Iwan J. Azis

Missed opportunity

Iwan Azis explains what difference high interest rates in the rich world make in emerging markets
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Interview
– by Ulrich Schröder

Crisis-induced expansion

Government-owned development banks matter in the global financial crisis – and they must accept the principle of subsidiarity
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