Documents et rapports
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Contagious Protests (anglais)
This paper explores the spillover of protests across countries using data on nonviolent and spontaneous demonstrations for 200 countries from 2000 to 2020. Using an autoregressive spatial model, the analysis...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9321 Date du document: 14 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arezki,Rabah,Dama,Alou Adesse,Djankov,Simeon,Nguyen,Ha Minh
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Reform Chatter and Democracy (anglais)
This paper explores the dynamics of media chatter about economic reforms using text analysis from about a billion newspaper articles in 28 languages. The paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9319 Date du document: 13 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arezki,Rabah,Djankov,Simeon,Nguyen,Ha Minh,Yotzov,Ivan Victorov
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Reversal of Fortune for Political Incumbents : Evidence from Oil Shocks (anglais)
Using a new dataset of 207 national elections across 50 democracies, this paper is the first to systematically examine the effects of oil price shocks on incumbents’ political fortunes in developed oil-importing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9287 Date du document: 22 juin 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arezki,Rabah,Djankov,Simeon,Nguyen,Ha Minh,Yotzov,Ivan Victorov
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Survival of Firms during Economic Crisis (anglais)
This paper estimates the survival time of nearly 7,000 firms in a dozen high-income and middle-income countries in a scenario of extreme economic distress, using the World Bank's Enterprises Surveys. Under...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9239 Date du document: 11 mai 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bosio,Erica,Djankov,Simeon,Jolevski,Filip,Ramalho,Rita
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Gendered Laws (anglais)
This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9080 Date du document: 17 décembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Djankov,Simeon,Goldberg,Pinelopi Koujianou
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Business Regulations and Poverty (anglais)
Using panel data for 189 economies from 2005 to 2013, this paper shows that business-friendly regulations are correlated with the poverty headcount at the country level. This association is significant...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8763 Date du document: 1 mars 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Georgieva,Dorina Peteva,Ramalho,Rita
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World Development Report 2019 : The Changing Nature of Work (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main Report (chinois)
The forthcoming World Development Report (WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Fears that robots will take away...
Type de document: Rapport sur le développement dans le monde Numéro du rapport: 130189 Date du document: 28 septembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Saliola,Federica,Chen,Rong - DECID,Connon,Davida Louise,Cusolito,Ana Paula,Gentilini,Ugo,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Sabarwal,Shwetlena,Santos,Indhira Vanessa,Zheng,Yucheng
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Communism as the unhappy coming (anglais)
This paper shows that Eastern Orthodox believers are less happy compared with Catholics and Protestants using data covering more than 100 countries around the world. Consistent with the happiness results...
Numéro du rapport: WPS8399 Date du document: 3 avril 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Nikolova,Elena
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World Development Report 2019 : The Changing Nature of Work (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main Report (anglais)
The forthcoming World Development Report (WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Fears that robots will take away...
Type de document: Rapport sur le développement dans le monde Numéro du rapport: 130189 Date du document: 16 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Saliola,Federica,Avitabile,Ciro,Chen,Rong - DECID,Connon,Davida Louise,Cusolito,Ana Paula,Gatti,Roberta V.,Gentilini,Ugo,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Kraay,Aart C.,Sabarwal,Shwetlena,Santos,Indhira Vanessa,Sharrock,David William,Tan,Consuelo Jurado,Zheng,Yucheng
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Public procurement regulation and road quality (anglais)
Public procurement regulation is an important instrument for using public resources efficiently and ensuring quality services to citizens. On average, the public procurement sector accounts for 14.5 percent...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8234 Date du document: 6 novembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Ghossein,Tania,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Saliola,Federica
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The road to 2020 : scenarios for a world in crisis (anglais)
The paper is based on a scenario workshop held on January 20, 2009, where leading financial and private sector development experts from IFC, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank discussed...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 69008 Date du document: 1 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Gregory,Neil,Klein,Michael Ulrich,Martin,Facundo S.
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Celebrating reform : doing business (anglais)
Reforming business regulation takes leadership-more than many other reforms. Committed leaders provide vision, energy and direction to improving business climates, often in the face of daunting challenges...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 58786 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Mcliesh,Caralee,Newton, James,Solf,Sylvia,Vicentini Vollmer,Adriana Ignacia,Jersild, Tom,Skopljak,Zoran,Larson,Adam J.,Minoski, Kiril,Morris,Janet,Johns,Melissa Marie,Lobet,Jean Michel,Ramalho,Rita,Dennis,Allen Curtis K.,Hertveldt,Sabine,Yap,Justin
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Review of the Dutch administrative simplification programme (anglais)
This note is a progress assessment of the Dutch government's recent regulatory reform initiatives. The assessment is carried out in light of the World Bank Group's 2007 examination of the Netherlands'...
Numéro du rapport: 58697 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon,Ladegaard,Peter Farup
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Review of Denmark's program for better business regulation (anglais)
The report is organized as follows: the executive summary (I) pulls together all major conclusions and recommendations of the report. The following five sections then focus on key requirements of any successful...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 58690 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bilberg,Martin Hansen,Djankov,Simeon,Ladegaard,Peter Farup,Rimmer,Stephen
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Review of Denmark's program for better business regulation (anglais)
This report is a brief review of the Danish government's 2001-2010 administrative burden reduction programs. The report is organized as follows. The executive summary: (i) pull together all major conclusions...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 58781 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bilberg,Martin Hansen,Djankov,Simeon,Ladegaard,Peter Farup,Rimmer,Stephen
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The World Bank research observer 24 (2) (anglais)
This issue includes the following: Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling, and child health by Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Norbert Schady; the regulation of entry: asurvey by Simeon Djankov; how relevant...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 62986 Date du document: 1 août 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abadzi,Helen,Deininger,Klaus W.,Djankov,Simeon,Feder,Gershon,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Ravallion,Martin,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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The regulation of entry : a survey (anglais)
Simplifying entry regulation has been a popular reform since the publication of Djankov and others (2002). The inclusion of business entry indicators in the World Bank's doing business project has led...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 76797 Date du document: 13 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon
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Bankruptcy regimes during financial distress (anglais)
A question frequently asked at the onset of economic crises is whether the existing bankruptcy regimes can adequately deal with the increase in corporate and bank failures. This paper describes how bankruptcy...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 50322 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Djankov,Simeon
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Natural resources and reforms (anglais)
The authors use a sample of 133 countries to investigate the link between the abundance of natural resources and micro-economic reforms. Previous studies suggest that natural resource abundance gives rise...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4882 Date du document: 1 mars 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin,Mohammad,Djankov,Simeon
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Democracy and reforms (anglais)
The authors use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be conducive to reforms, because politicians have the incentive to embrace growth-enhancing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4835 Date du document: 1 février 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin,Mohammad,Djankov,Simeon