Image Credit: EBRD July 8, 2022/EBRD By Anton Usov EBRD-mobilised financing package of up to US$ 4.5 million for taxi company Sayohon in Tajikistan Firm will procure 100 electric vehicles and 30 charging stations GEF support and inclusive employment More than 60 per cent of the nearly 900,000 residents of Dushanbe, […]
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Middle East Needs Fairer Taxes to Aid Growth and Ease Inequality
(IMAGE: ANDREI VASILEV/ISTOCK BY GETTY IMAGES) July 6, 2022/IMFBlog By Jihad Azour, Priscilla Muthoora and Geneviève Verdier Countries in the Middle East and Central Asia have a long history of using taxes to develop their economies and promote social inclusion. The first income tax can be traced back 5,000 years to Ancient Egypt. […]
CPMI-IOSCO assesses that Turkey has implemented the Principles for financial market infrastructures for two FMI types but material gaps remain for the other three
July 6, 2022/IOSCO Turkey’s framework for systemically important payment systems (PSs) and securities settlement systems (SSSs) is consistent with the CPMI-IOSCO Principles for financial market infrastructures (PFMI). Most of the implementation measures for central counterparties (CCPs) are consistent or broadly consistent with the PFMI. A number of material gaps have […]
