Author/Editor: Kimberly Beaton, Valerie Cerra, Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov.

Release Date:July, 2021

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout more...

Author/Editor: Majid Bazarbash, Kimberly Beaton.

Release Date:August, 2020

Can fintech credit fill the credit gap in the consumer and business segments? There are few cross-country studies that explore this question. Focusing on marketplace lending, an important part of more...

Author/Editor: Ratna Sahay, Ulric Eriksson von Allmen, Amina Lahreche, Purva Khera, Sumiko Ogawa, Majid Bazarbash, Kimberly Beaton.

Release Date:July, 2020

Technology is changing the landscape of the financial sector, increasing access to financial services in profound ways. These changes have been in motion for several years, affecting nearly all more...

Author/Editor: Pelin Berkmen, Kimberly Beaton, Dmitry Gershenson, Javier Arze del Granado, Kotaro Ishi, Marie Kim, Emanuel Kopp, Marina V Rousset.

Release Date:March, 2019

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), financial technology has been growing rapidly and is on the agenda of many policy makers. Fintech provides opportunities to deepen financial development, more...

Author/Editor: Kimberly Beaton, Thomas Dowling, Dmitriy Kovtun, Franz Loyola, Alla Myrvoda, Joel Chiedu Okwuokei, Inci Ötker, Jarkko Turunen.

Release Date:November, 2017

The high level of nonperforming loans (NPLs) in the Caribbean has been, in large part, a legacy of the global financial crisis, but their persistence owes much to the weak economic recovery in the more...

Author/Editor: Kimberly Beaton, Serhan Cevik, Reza Yousefi.

Release Date:July, 2017

With 250 million migrants globally, remittances are one of the major sources of income in many developing countries. While there is abundant evidence that remittances facilitate consumption smoothing more...

Author/Editor: Kimberly Beaton, Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov.

Release Date:July, 2017

This paper estimates medium-term potential growth for a country undergoing significant structural and secular changes. Our forward-looking framework, incorporating three analytical more...

Author/Editor: Kimberly Beaton, Aliona Cebotari, Xiaodan Ding, Andras Komaromi.

Release Date:June, 2017

The paper applies a network analysis framework to analyze the regional and global integration of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We compare network-based measures of trade more...

Author/Editor: Kimberly Beaton, Svetlana Cerovic, Misael Galdamez, Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Franz Loyola, Zsoka Koczan, Bogdan Lissovolik, Jan Kees Martijn, Yulia Ustyugova, Joyce Wong.

Release Date:June, 2017

Outward migration has been an important phenomenon for countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC), particularly those in Central America and the Caribbean. This paper examines recent trends more...

Author/Editor: Kimberly Beaton, Aliona Cebotari, Andras Komaromi.

Release Date:March, 2017

We revisit the relationship between international trade, economic growth and inequality with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper combines two approaches: First, we more...