Documents et rapports

Development Policy Retrospective 2021 : Facing Crisis, Fostering Recovery (anglais)

This report is the fifth Development Policy Financing (DPF) Retrospective. DPF, one of the Bank’s three complementary financing instruments, is non-earmarked budget financing that supports policy and institutional...

Diagonal Cumulation and Sourcing Decisions (anglais)

Products must fulfill predetermined rules of origin to be exported under the preferential access granted by a free trade area member. In turn, rules of cumulation establish which countries' inputs qualify...

Bridging the gender gap : identifying what is holding self-employed women back in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Republic of Congo (anglais)

Quantile decomposition methods are used to study the determinants of the gender gap in self-employment earnings across the earnings distribution of four Sub-Saharan countries: the Republic of Congo, Ghana...

Bridging the gap : identifying what is holding self-employed women back in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, the Republic of Congo, and Uganda (anglais)

Where have all the poor gone? : Cambodia poverty assessment 2013 (anglais)

Over the seven years from 2004 through 2011, Cambodian economic growth was tremendous, ranking amid the best in the world. Moreover, household consumption increased by nearly 40 percent. And this growth...

Where have all the poor gone? : Cambodia poverty assessment 2013 (khmer)

Over the seven years from 2004 through 2011, Cambodian economic growth was tremendous, ranking amid the best in the world. Moreover, household consumption increased by nearly 40 percent. And this growth...

Women and trade in Africa : realizing the potential (anglais)

Regional trade in Africa can play a vital role in diversifying economies and reducing dependence on the export of a few mineral products, in delivering food and energy security, in generating jobs for...

Gender-informing aid for trade : entry points and initial lessons learned from the World Bank (anglais)

The effects of policy interventions on women are of increasing concern to policy makers in all fields, and trade is no exception. This note reviews recent World Bank projects and studies that 'gender inform'...

The roles of openness and labor market institutions for employment dynamics during economic crises (anglais)

Employment effects of the recent global economic crisis have differed significantly across countries. An active public debate currently focuses on external shocks and the role of labor market policies...

Aid for trade : do countries that need it, get it? (anglais)

This paper is designed to help both the beneficiary governments and donors of aid-for-trade identify countries that are under-performing in trade and which are receiving less aid for trade than their global...

Trade protection : incipient but worrisome trends (anglais)

With the global economy teetering on the abyss of severe recession, political pressures demanding protection from import competition to protect employment are surfacing with increasing intensity around...

Unlocking global opportunities : the aid for trade program of the World Bank Group (anglais)

Aid for trade is a means to help developing countries, especially low-income countries, integrate into the world economy as a way to spur growth. The recent financial crisis and global recession have...