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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...

Since 1992, the Russian word Mafyia has been officially used in the Russian Federation’s documents to refer above all to organized crime, structured through stable groups...

Across the developing world, financial institutions have leveraged digital technologies and innovative business models to expand access to digital financial services (DFS), such as digital transaction...

Authors: Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Cyril Muller* If you are unbanked there is a high likelihood you are living on the edge of poverty, exclusion and...

Although central banks are among the most cautious institutions in the world, they are, perhaps surprisingly, among the first to implement and experiment with blockchain technology....