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Thematic Index

Palermo Convention, 249
Panama:
credit registries, 176
efficiency of banking industry, 7
housing finance, 209, 211, 216
interest rate spread, 6
small and medium enterprises, 187
state-owned banks, 151
Paraguay:
deposit insurance, 102
financial dollarization, 53, 95-96
money laundering, 243
Payments systems, 68, 85
Pension fund systems, 76
Peru:
banking crisis resolution, 72box
Commission for the Formalization of Informal Property (COFOPRI), 193
credit registries, 178box, 180-181
deposit insurance, 103-104
financial dollarization, 49, 51, 95-96
foreign banks, 129, 133, 136
housing finance, 210-211, 212box, 214, 216, 218-220
money laundering, 251
Mortgage Fund for Housing Promotion (Mivivienda), 216
nominal bonds, 64
property rights, 193box
public debt and deficit, 18fig
real estate value as percentage of GDP, 209
small and medium enterprises, 187
state-owned banks, 147, 152
sudden stops, 41
Petro-dollars, 79
Political view of state-owned banking, 141, 157
Postal savings, 147box
Poverty, 243
Price indexing of debt markets, 64
Privacy laws, 183
Private contracts, 167
Privatization of banks:
costs/benefits of, 149box
and foreign ownership, 132box
increases in, 141, 147-148
money laundering and, 248
Profitability by bank type, 152
Property fraud, 165-166
Property registries, 164-165, 193box
Property rights:
deepening credit markets, 166-168
enforcement of, 163
and financial development, 163-164
and financial stability, 23
housing finance and, 221
loans and weaknesses in, 132box
protection by country of, 166fig
Provisioning, 133-134, 230-231, 235
Public Banks. See State-owned banks
Public bonds, 33, 64
Public debt:
bank holdings of, 94fig
and public deficit, 18fig, 19fig
and SME access to financing, 196
and vulnerability to sudden stops, 43
Public deficit, 18fig, 19fig, 20tab

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