Foreign Banking: Do Countries' WTO Commitments Match Actual Practices?

Do your commitments match your convictions?

How many of us keep pace day to day, up-holding our obligations to our bosses, families, and the community, even as our overall satisfaction with work and quality of life decline? And yet, our common response to the situation is: "I'm too busy to do anything about it now." Unfortunately, unless a personal or professional crisis strikes, very few of us step back, take stock of our day-to-day act...

Do foreign-owned banks affect banking system liquidity risk?

Dinger, Valeriya—Do foreign-owned banks affect banking system liquidity risk? Existing empirical research shows that foreign-owned banks play a stabilizing role in emerging economies’ banking systems. Anecdotal evidence suggests that this stabilizing role can be attributed to transnational banks’ access to more diversified sources of liquidity. There exists, however, no empirical evidence so fa...

Do efficient banking sectors accelerate economic growth in transition countries?

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Do Pacific Countries Receive Too Much Foreign Aid?

African Countries Short-changed in WTO Negotiations

For the first time, the 2015 World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference would be held in Africa, in Kenya, in December 2015. WTO Director General Roberto Azevêdo stated that the WTO has helped to boost trade growth, resolve trade disputes and support developing countries to integrate into the trading system. But most African countries question that if the multilateral trade negotiati...