Documents et rapports

Economic Governance Improvements and Sovereign Financing Costs in Developing Countries (anglais)

Low- and middle-income country governments are increasingly tapping the global debt capital markets. This is increasing the amount of finance available for development, but at a considerably higher cost...

Debt Management Facility (DMF) news (issue 26) (anglais)

This issue of the Debt Management Facility (DMF) newsletter includes the following topics: (i) mark your calendars : DMF forum 2017; (ii) agence UMOA-Titres (AUT) joins DMF as a new IP; (iii) DMF activities...

Debt Management Facility (DMF) news (anglais)

This is the October 2016 edition of the Debt Management Facility (DMF) News. Topics covered in this twentieth fifth edition include the following: DeMPA methodology update, September 2016; announcing the...

Subnational debt management performance assessment methodology (SN DeMPA) (anglais)

Subnational debt levels in developing countries are becoming increasingly significant as central governments continue to decentralize spending responsibilities, revenue-raising authority, and borrowing...

African debt since HIPC : how clean is the slate? (anglais)

The paper finds a moderate evolution in public debt ratios since debt relief among heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and multilateral debt relief initiative (MDRI) recipient countries in Sub-Saharan...

The economic impact of Ebola on sub-Saharan Africa : updated estimates for 2015 (anglais)

The most severe impact of the Ebola epidemic, which began in Guinea in December 2013 and quickly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, has been in lost human lives and suffering. This report, prepared for...

Debt management performance assessment (DeMPA) methodology : Methodologie d'evaluation de la performance en matiere de gestion de la dette (DEMPA) (français)

The World Bank has developed a program, in collaboration with other partners, to assist developing countries in improving debt management. The objective of the program is to help strengthen capacity and...

Debt management performance assessment (DeMPA) methodology (russe)

The World Bank has developed a program, in collaboration with other partners, to assist developing countries in improving debt management. The objective of the program is to help strengthen capacity and...

Debt management performance assessment (DeMPA) methodology (anglais)

The World Bank has developed a program, in collaboration with other partners, to assist developing countries in improving debt management. The objective of the program is to help strengthen capacity and...

Debt management performance assessment (DeMPA) methodology : Metodologia de la herramienta de evaluacion del desempeno en la gestion de la deuda (DeMPA) (espagnol)

The World Bank has developed a program, in collaboration with other partners, to assist developing countries in improving debt management. The objective of the program is to help strengthen capacity and...

Cote d'Ivoire - CI: Post-conflict Reconstruction and Recovery Grant (PCRRG) : P122800 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (anglais)

The fiscal management of natural resource revenues in a developing country setting (anglais)

The exhaustibility and volatility of natural resource revenues pose well-known economic challenges, of which those facing oil producers are the most prominent. If oil revenues represent an important share...

Turkey - RESTORING EQUITABLE GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY LOAN : P112495 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02 (anglais)

Turkey - RESTORING EQUITABLE GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY LOAN : P112495 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (anglais)

Economic informality : causes, costs, and policies - a literature survey (anglais)

In this survey the author assemble recent theoretical and empirical advances in the literature on economic informality, analyzing the causes and costs of informality in developed and developing economies...

The concept of odious debt : some considerations (anglais)

Despite the popularity of the term among advocates of debt forgiveness, there is little agreement on a workable definition of "odious" debts and there are but few examples where the concept has been invoked...

The concept of odious debt : some considerations (anglais)

The purpose of this discussion paper is modest: (i) examine the main features of the traditional concept and categories of odious debts, and briefly examine whether a rule allowing the repudiation of odious...