Key Insights From the International and Development Finance Institutions on How to Harness Repayable Grants to Build Financial Ecosystems and Nascent Businesses
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The objectives of USAID’s Rapid Financial Crisis Assessment for Armenia were to identify strengths and vulnerabilities of financial sector participants, assess overall soundness and stability of the financial and corporate sectors, highlight linkages between the macro-economy and the financial sector, and ascertain economic policy implications.
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The objective of this primer is to help identify the reforms required to develop an efficient government securities markets, both for the primary market in which government securities are issued and for the secondary market in which government securities are traded.
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From USAID’s Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing Project (FS Share) is a primer offering case studies, covering business models and partnerships, relevant to branchless banking and how technology can offer tools and services to facilitate this. Examples of these tools include card-based, mobile phone-based, or other ICT-based devices.
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This Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing Project (FS Share) paper examines how burdensome microeconomic policies can increase the cost and risk of lending and identify ways to remediate these barriers to facilitate financial sector development.
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An assessment of the priority constraints and recommendations, by area of concern, within Azerbaijan’s securities market. This document also reviews the legal and regulatory environment and the institutional infrastructure entailed in establishing that securities market.
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This report provides U.S. government program designers with a basic technical understanding of the core requirements to introduce finance secured by movable property, a tool used to increase access to finance, especially for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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This primer, Enabling Sub-sovereign Bond Issuances, provides U.S. government (USG) program designers with a basis of technical understanding of sub-national finance as a sustainable approach to supporting local government infrastructure development and improved service delivery.
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USAID’s Asia and the Middle East Economic Growth Best Practices Project conducted market research to determine (1) the investment interests of Indian diaspora living in the U.S. and (2) the conditions they would invest in a fixed-income security that finances Indian SMEs in social-impact sectors.
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