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A decade after the global financial crisis, developing countries have increased their minimum capital requirements to help improve the resilience of banking systems. However, countries are still...

Reserve asset management in Asian economies is becoming more and more complex.  There has been a marked shift in the reserve currency asset markets over the last...

Digital technologies could bring new opportunities to provide financial services to vast underserved populations in Asia and the Pacific. People need to be well-prepared for this...

Last week, the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) was taken aback by more than a surprise. Just when it was dealing with the uncomfortable series of...

Da Afghanistan Bank (Afghanistan's Central Bank) and the World Bank today launched the Afghanistan National Financial Inclusion Strategy and announced the conclusion of the National Risk Assessment for Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing.  The...

Pakistan approached International Monetary Fund for 13th time since 1988 to get a bail-out. This programme is touted as a recipe to `reduce Pakistan’s public debt’...

From investing in health and education to providing water and sanitation, developing countries need $3.9 trillion each year to power their efforts toward the Sustainable Development...

There is certainly a correlation by and between when conservatives and Republicans talk about “de-regulation” and “freedom” of business, in the outright and total crushing of the...

Authors: Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Michael Lim Mah Hui* Over recent decades, the scope, size, concentration, power and even the purpose and role of finance have changed so...

The current situation in Libya is far from simple.  In April 2019, Khalifa Haftar received from the new Russian envoy, Lev Dengov, the polite order not to...