Financial Sector Policy for Developing Countries: A Reader

By: Caprio, Gerard (Editor)Contributor(s): Vittas, Dimitri (Editor) | Honohan, Patrick (Editor)Material type: TextTextSeries: World Bank e-LibraryPublication details: Washington, DC : World Bank, ©2002; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2002Description: xviii, 250 pages : illustrationsISBN: 9780821351765 ; 0821351761; 9780585460369; 0585460361 Subject(s): Finance Developing countries | Banks and banking Developing countries | International finance | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -Banks & BankingDDC classification: 332.1091724
Contents:
Foreword / Cesare Calari -- pt. I. Designing Policy for the Financial System. Looking Back at the World Bank's: World Development Report 1989: Finance and Development / Millard F. Long. From Good Bankers to Bad Bankers / Aristobulo de Juan. Impact of Early Financial Growth Strategies on Financial Structures and Problems in Three Asian Crisis Countries / David C. Cole. Risk Management and Stable Financial Structures for LDC, Inc / Yoon Je Cho and Andrew Sheng. Eggs in Too Few Baskets: The Impact of Loan Concentration on Bank-Sector Systemic Risk / Berry K. Wilson and Gerard Caprio -- pt. II. International and Intersectoral Linkages. Policy for Small Financial Systems / Biagio Bossone, Patrick Honohan and Millard F. Long. Dollarization, Private and Official: Issues, Benefits, and Costs / James A. Hanson. Policies to Promote Saving for Retirement / Dimitri Vittas. Financial Networks and Banking Policy / Patrick Honohan and Dimitri Vittas -- pt. III. Taking the Longer View.
Summary: The dramatic events of the late 1990s, which followed a wave of financial crises going back to the early 1980s, brought to center stage the issue of financial sector policy in developing countries. Many recent books have presented a chronology and interpretation of the crises, but it is little apreciated that these financial sector problems had been brewing for decades and that a small number of scholars had long been evolving an approach to undertanding the structure and dynamics of these sectors. Spearheaded by a group led by Millard Long, the World Bank began studying more than 20 years ago the problems, risks, and policy solutions surrounding private finance. This volume contains a collection of essays drawing on that accumulated experience and offering a wide perspective based on extensive real-world institutional experience. They are a useful reader on a wide range of the financial policy issues that are central in developing economies today. They reflect also the evolving approach of the Bank's financial sector team and represent the knowledge that the team has accumulated over the years.
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Foreword / Cesare Calari --
pt. I. Designing Policy for the Financial System. Looking Back at the World Bank's: World Development Report 1989: Finance and Development / Millard F. Long. From Good Bankers to Bad Bankers / Aristobulo de Juan. Impact of Early Financial Growth Strategies on Financial Structures and Problems in Three Asian Crisis Countries / David C. Cole. Risk Management and Stable Financial Structures for LDC, Inc / Yoon Je Cho and Andrew Sheng. Eggs in Too Few Baskets: The Impact of Loan Concentration on Bank-Sector Systemic Risk / Berry K. Wilson and Gerard Caprio --
pt. II. International and Intersectoral Linkages. Policy for Small Financial Systems / Biagio Bossone, Patrick Honohan and Millard F. Long. Dollarization, Private and Official: Issues, Benefits, and Costs / James A. Hanson. Policies to Promote Saving for Retirement / Dimitri Vittas. Financial Networks and Banking Policy / Patrick Honohan and Dimitri Vittas --
pt. III. Taking the Longer View.


The dramatic events of the late 1990s, which followed a wave of financial crises going back to the early 1980s, brought to center stage the issue of financial sector policy in developing countries. Many recent books have presented a chronology and interpretation of the crises, but it is little apreciated that these financial sector problems had been brewing for decades and that a small number of scholars had long been evolving an approach to undertanding the structure and dynamics of these sectors. Spearheaded by a group led by Millard Long, the World Bank began studying more than 20 years ago the problems, risks, and policy solutions surrounding private finance. This volume contains a collection of essays drawing on that accumulated experience and offering a wide perspective based on extensive real-world institutional experience. They are a useful reader on a wide range of the financial policy issues that are central in developing economies today. They reflect also the evolving approach of the Bank's financial sector team and represent the knowledge that the team has accumulated over the years.

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