Documents et rapports
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April 2024 Update to the Global Database of Shared Prosperity : What’s New (anglais)
This note introduces the 13th edition of the Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP). Shared prosperity is the growth in per capita household income or consumption of the poorest 40 percent of the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 191860 Date du document: 25 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carlos Sabatino,Carolina Diaz-Bonilla,Danielle Victoria Aron,Cameron Nadim Haddad,Minh Cong Nguyen,Haoyu Wu
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Exploring Alternatives for the Economic Inclusion of Low-Income, Artisanal Fisher Communities in Costa Rica : Case Study of Artisanal Fishing and Mollusk Gathering Communities in Puerto Cortés and Golfo Dulce (anglais)
This note provides insights into socio-economic conditions and economic inclusion opportunities for two low-income, artisanal fishing and mollusk-gathering communities in Costa Rica, and explores the role...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 192484 Date du document: 1 juin 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Martha Sanchez Galvis,Luz Rodriguez-Novoa
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A Customizable Microsimulation Tool to Analyze Distributional Effects of Country Fiscal Policies (anglais)
Microsimulation modelling has become a powerful tool to analyze the effects of fiscal policy changes. The World Bank’s Equity Policy Lab (EPL) has developed a customizable microsimulation tool to assess...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 156565 Date du document: 1 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gao,Jia,Inchauste Comboni,Maria Gabriela
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Global Integration Is More Important than Ever to Contain the Economic and Health Fallout and Exit the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis (anglais)
As the world faces its most significant health and economic crisis in almost one hundred years, international cooperation and global integration face their own watershed moment. Large developed economies...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 152015 Date du document: 24 août 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nixon, Stewart
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Inclusive Value Chains to Accelerate Poverty Reduction in Africa (anglais)
The rapid transformation of agri-food value chains in Africa and other developing countries hasimportant implications for economic growth and poverty reduction. Policy makers increasinglyrecognize this...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 146422 Date du document: 1 février 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Swinnen,Johan F. M.,Kuijpers,Rob
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Firm Performance and the Business Environment in Malaysia : A Comparison with High - Income and Upper - Middle - Income countries (anglais)
Firm-level survey data on registered private firms reveal that firms in Malaysia have much lower labor productivity than their counterparts in 43 upper-middle-income and 14 high-income countries. It will...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 138329 Date du document: 1 janvier 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin,Mohammad,Soh,Yew Chong
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Universal health coverage in Russia : extending coverage for the poor in the Post-Soviet Era (anglais)
Over the past two decades Russia experienced a significant increase in state-financed entitlements for health care through the Program of State Guarantees for Medical Care (PSG). The PSG, which is underpinned...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 127140 Date du document: 1 janvier 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Somanathan,Aparnaa,Sheiman,Igor M.,Salakhutdinova,Sevil Kamalovna,Buisman,Leander Robert
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Creating agricultural markets : how the Ethiopia commodity exchange connects farmers and buyers through partnership and technology (anglais)
Commodity exchanges can provide emerging market economies with orderly, transparent, and efficient markets by acting as mechanisms that mitigate price risk, discover equilibrium prices, and connect buyers...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 115706 Date du document: 1 avril 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Haile,Abenet Bekele,Volk,Ariane Tamara,Rehermann,Thomas
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Enhancing the benefits of formalization under a new status in Benin (anglais)
Benin, along with sixteen other OHADA countries in Africa, revised their commercial law to introduce a new status called entreprenant. This status is designed for micro and small businesses, and registering...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 110816 Date du document: 1 novembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Benhassine,Najy,Mckenzie,David J.,Pouliquen,Victor Maurice Joseph,Santini,Massimiliano
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Report of the Committee on Site (anglais)
The following is a selection from a report by the Committee on Site from the Inaugural Meeting of the Board of Governors of the IBRD held in Savannah, Georgia, March 8 to 18, 1946 in which the location...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104669 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Subjective well-being across the lifespan in Europe and Central Asia (anglais)
This paper uses data from the Integrated Values Survey, the Life in Transition Survey, and the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to analyze the relation between age and subjective well-being in the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125607 Date du document: 1 juillet 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bauer,Jan Michael,Levin,Victoria,Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria,Nie,Peng,Sousa-poza,Alfonso
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Myths and facts about female directors (anglais)
Women in the workforce are key to healthy economies, but this does not mean that adding more women to the board will necessarily increase shareholder value or that the financial crisis will not have happened...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 99388 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Adams, Renee B.
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Where informal procedures are quasi-formal : cross-border trade between West and Central Africa (anglais)
This note outlines the critical barriers that constrain trade between Nigeria and Cameroon, describes the practical norms that have emerged as a response to those constraints, and recommends key reforms...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 78406 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin,Mukhtar Ahmed,Hoppe,Mombert
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Sri Lankan population change and demographic bonus challenges and opportunities in the new millennium (anglais)
This paper examines the population changes and the related causative factors, namely fertility, mortality and international migration in Sri Lanka. During the past decades, the total size, as well as the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 74168 Date du document: 1 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Silva, W. Indralal
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Thailand - Renewable energy acceleration program (anglais)
Major new investment in generating capacity will be needed to satisfy Thailand’s rapid economic growth. As of 2008, installed capacity was 29.1GW. The latest power development plan (2008-2021) forecasts...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76167 Date du document: 1 août 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Where informal procedures are quasi-formal : cross-border trade between West and Central Africa : Formalisation des procédures informelles - le commerce transfrontalier entre l'Afrique occidentale et centrale (français)
This note outlines the critical barriers that constrain trade between Nigeria and Cameroon, describes the practical norms that have emerged as a response to those constraints, and recommends key reforms...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 78406 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin,Mukhtar Ahmed,Hoppe,Mombert
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Unemployment registration and benefits in ECA countries (anglais)
Public Employment Services (PES) in several Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries are severely limited by underfunded labor market programs, understaffing, and fragmented networks of employment offices...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 62253 Date du document: 1 avril 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kuddo,Arvo
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Unemployment registration and benefits in ECA countries : Inregistrarea somerilor si ajutorul de somaj in tarile ECA (Roumain)
Public Employment Services (PES) in several Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries are severely limited by underfunded labor market programs, understaffing, and fragmented networks of employment offices...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 62253 Date du document: 1 avril 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kuddo,Arvo
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The events in the Arab world, the recent global crisis, and the World Bank Group (anglais)
This quick note is to provide the reader with a perspective on how the World Bank Group has been challenged by and has responded to recent global crises. However, at this historical moment, one cannot...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 62243 Date du document: 1 mars 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Indrawati,Sri Mulyani
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Aide basée sur les résultats et services d’assainissement durables (français)
L’aide basée sur les résultats (OBA) subordonne l’octroi de fonds publics à l’obtention effective de résultats clairement définis qui contribuent directement à l’amélioration de l’accès aux services de...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57815 Date du document: 9 novembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Tremolet,Sophie Cecile Marie,Evans, Barbara