Author/Editor: Bas B Bakker, Beatriz Garcia-Nunes, Weicheng Lian, Yang Liu, Camila Perez Marulanda, Adam Siddiq, Mariusz A Sumlinski, Yuanchen Yang, Dmitry Vasilyev.

Release Date:March, 2023

In the past decade, fintech has shaken up the financial sector in Latin America providing innovations in lending, payments, insurance, and regulation and compliance. This paper examines this more...

Author/Editor: Alina Carare, Lavinia Franco, Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Justin Lesniak, Dmitry Vasilyev, Yorbol Yakhshilikov.

Release Date:December, 2022

This paper investigates factors that predict variation in digital and non-digital remittance fees over time and across countries, exploring differences between CAPDR and other regions. The paper more...

Author/Editor: Aleksandra Babii, Alina Carare, Dmitry Vasilyev, Yorbol Yakhshilikov.

Release Date:May, 2022

Traditional models relying on standard variables like the U.S. Hispanic unemployment rate fared well in explaining remittances to CAPDR and Mexico during the pre-pandemic period. However, they fail more...

Author/Editor: Sriram Balasubramanian, Lahcen Bounader, Jana Bricco, Dmitry Vasilyev.

Release Date:April, 2021

Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? We look at four key case studies across advanced and emerging markets—the Nordics, India, Brazil, and Egypt—to try to answer this question. more...

Author/Editor: Dmitry Vasilyev.

Release Date:February, 2019

In the 1990s and early 2000s, Belize grew faster than its regional peers. By the mid-2000s, however, economic growth had slowed down to the regional average. A vicious circle of low growth and more...