Documents et rapports
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Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade (anglais)
Quality regulation has become the dominant instrument of trade policy. Panel evidence shows that regulations classified as sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade both increase...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10601 Date du document: 9 novembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zavala,Lucas,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Haygood,Ryan,Reed,Tristan,Reyes,Jose Daniel
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Using Individual-Level Randomized Treatment to Learn about Market Structure? (anglais)
Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An experiment that subsidizes a random sub-set of traders who buy cocoa from farmers in Sierra Leone illustrates this...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 185247 Date du document: 16 octobre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Casaburi,Lorenzo,Reed,Tristan
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Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing ? And If So, Why? And What Is Next? (anglais)
Data on global trade as well as capital and labor flows indicate a slowdown, but not reversal, of globalization post the 2008–09 financial crisis. Yet profound changes in the policy environment and public...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10392 Date du document: 5 avril 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Goldberg,Pinelopi Koujianou,Reed,Tristan
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Cartels, Antitrust Enforcement, and Industry Performance : Evidence from Mexico (anglais)
Forty percent of economic activities in Mexico weighed by sales have been investigated for illegal monopolistic practices since the Federal Competition Commission was established in 1993. By exploiting...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10269 Date du document: 22 décembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reed,Tristan,Pereira Lopez,Mariana De La Paz,Urrutia Arrieta,Ana Francisca,Iacovone,Leonardo
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Financing Vaccine Equity : Funding for Day-Zero of the Next Pandemic (anglais)
A lack of timely financing for purchases of vaccines and other health products impeded the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on analysis of contract signature and delivery dates in COVID-19...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10067 Date du document: 26 mai 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Agarwal,Ruchir,Reed,Tristan
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Policy Actions to Increase the Supply of COVID-19 Vaccines in the Short Term (anglais)
Vaccination rates in developing countries lag those in developed countries by a huge margin. This Research & Policy Brief identifies and quantifies the impact of six policy and regulatory actions that...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 162900 Date du document: 16 août 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Murthi,Mamta,Reed,Tristan
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The Falling Price of Cement in Africa (anglais)
Prices for several intermediate inputs, including cement, are higher in developing economies—particularly in Africa. Combining data from the International Comparison Program with a global directory of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9706 Date du document: 22 juin 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Leone, Fabrizio,Macchiavello,Rocco,Reed,Tristan
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How to End the COVID-19 Pandemic by March 2022 (anglais)
How can the world reach herd immunity against COVID-19 before the second anniversary of the pandemic, or March 2022? A study of vaccine demand and supply answers this question. A target of vaccinating...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9632 Date du document: 15 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Agarwal,Ruchir,Reed,Tristan
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Five Ways that COVID-19 Diagnostics Can Save Lives : Prioritizing Uses of Tests to Maximize Cost-Effectiveness (anglais)
Supplies of diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus), are still limited in many countries, and there is uncertainty about how to allocate the scarce supply across alternative...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 156888 Date du document: 23 février 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reed,Tristan,Waites,William,Manheim,David,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Vallini,Chiara,Gatti,Roberta V.,Hallett,Timothy B.
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Long-run Returns to Private Equity in Emerging Markets (anglais)
This paper provides the first evidence on the long-run returns to private equity in emerging and frontier markets using the cash flows from every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9366 Date du document: 26 août 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cole,Shawn Allen,Melecky,Martin,Molders,Florian,Reed,Tristan
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Demand-Side Constraints in Development : The Role of Market Size, Trade, and (In)Equality (anglais)
What is the pathway to development in a world marked by rising economic nationalism and less international integration? This paper answers this question within a framework that emphasizes the role of demand-side...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9342 Date du document: 29 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Goldberg,Pinelopi Koujianou,Reed,Tristan
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The Large-Firm Wage Premium in Developing Economies (anglais)
Large firms pay higher wages. In developing economies, the large-firm wage premium is comparable to the average gap between male and female wages, or two-thirds of the gap between urban and rural wages...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8997 Date du document: 9 septembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reed,Tristan,Tran,Trang Thu
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Assessing the Value of Market Access from Belt and Road Projects (anglais)
The present value of market access from the Belt and Road Initiative in Eurasia does not exceed its costs. Many transportation projects are of little value because they fail to create new least-cost paths...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8815 Date du document: 11 avril 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reed,Tristan,Trubetskoy,Alexandr
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Cameroon - City competitiveness diagnostic (anglais)
The purpose of this report is to help policymakers improve economic development and job creation in Cameroon’s cities. The report is part of the World Bank’s Technical Assistance project on Enhancing Economic...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 127432 Date du document: 18 juin 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hobson,Emma Sameh Wadie,Reed,Tristan,Zelezeck Nguimatsa,Serge,Bougna Lonla,Theophile