Bank Model

This book sheds new light on the critical importance of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), a remarkably successful central bank that is a model for developing oil exporters worldwide.

This book sheds new light on the critical importance of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), a remarkably successful central bank that is a model for developing oil exporters worldwide. As a "swing producer", Saudi Arabia has traditionally stepped in to make up for oil supply shortfalls in other OPEC countries, or to scale back their own production when overabundance might lead to a price crash.

Inside the engine-room of China's economic growth–the China Development Bank. Anyone wanting a primer on the secret of China's economic success need look no further than China Development Bank (CDB)–which has displaced the World Bank as the world's biggest development bank, lending billions to countries around the globe to further Chinese policy goals. In "China's World Bank," Bloomberg authors Michael Forsythe and Henry Sanderson outline how the bank is at the center of China's domestic economic growth and how it is helping to expand China's influence in strategically important overseas markets.

As a low-income country, Ethiopia has made impressive progress in improving health outcomes. Ethiopia Health Extension Program examines how the country s Health Extension Program (HEP) has contributed to the move toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and it sheds light on how other countries may learn from Ethiopia s experiences of HEP when designing their own path to UHC. One of the government s UHC strategies, HEP was introduced with limited resources and few essential health services.