Documents et rapports

Jobs, Access to Credit, and Informality in MENA Countries (anglais)

This paper explores the link between jobs, access to Finance, and informality. Using longitudinal firm-level data for countries in the Middle East and North Africa, it documents that jobs creation is positively...

Libya : The Private Sector amid Conflict (anglais)

While the findings of this report refer to the pre-COVID-19 era, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis would further intensify Libya’s conflict-related crisis. COVID-19, in addition to creating a significant health...

Disclosable Restructuring Paper - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 (anglais)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 - Sequence No : 11 (anglais)

Helping Informal Firms in Egypt to Cope with COVID-19 Crisis (anglais)

A significant share of Egypt’s private sector is informal. The share of informal firms based on the CAPMAS Establishment Census (CEC) are the businesses that have a physical establishment. Across developing...

Addressing Informality in Egypt (anglais)

Informal jobs are often bad jobs, unproductive, poorly paid, risky, and unprotected. Informal firms perform poorly than their formal counterparts in terms of firm productivity, growth, and job creation...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 - Sequence No : 10 (anglais)

Country Private Sector Diagnostic : Creating Markets in Egypt - Realizing the Full Potential of a Productive Private Sector (Vol. 1 of 2) (arabe)

This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...

Country Private Sector Diagnostic : Creating Markets in Egypt - Realizing the Full Potential of a Productive Private Sector (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)

This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...

Country Private Sector Diagnostic : Creating Markets in Egypt - Realizing the Full Potential of a Productive Private Sector (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (arabe)

This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...

Country Private Sector Diagnostic : Creating Markets in Egypt - Realizing the Full Potential of a Productive Private Sector (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (anglais)

This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...

The Private Sector amid Conflict : The Case of Libya (anglais)

Libya’s economic stability should be a priority for the international community. Although the private sector is an integral part of the Libyan economy, limited systematic information is available on how...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 - Sequence No : 09 (anglais)

Jedad : Promoting Market Opportunities for Refugee and Host Community Businesses in Jordan (anglais)

Jedad is a business-to-business networking initiative supported by the World Bank team that aims to boost access to market and sales opportunities for micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Jordan with...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 - Sequence No : 08 (anglais)

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia provincial competitiveness study (anglais)

This report has prepared under the patronage of the Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah Governorate, this report presents the findings of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s first Provincial Competitiveness Study, which...

The jobs agenda for the Gulf cooperation council countries (anglais)

The economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) grew several folds over the past decades, making impressive improvements in key development indicators, supported by massive investments in extractive...

Small firms’ formalization : the stick treatment (anglais)

Firm informality is pervasive throughout the developing world, Bangladesh being no exception. The informal status of many firms substantially reduces the tax basis and therefore impacts the provision of...

Investment climate reforms and job creation in developing countries : what do we know and what should we do ? (anglais)

This paper reviews the literature on the role of the investment climate reforms in job creation. It finds that the current landscape of employment and private sector activity in developing countries indicates...

SME registration evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh (anglais)

Informality is pervasive in developing countries. In Bangladesh, the majority of firms are informal and as such they might not have access to prime markets, while lowering the tax base. The authors implemented...