Documents et rapports
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Supply-Side Regulatory Drivers for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (anglais)
The brief is the first in a two-part series that provides an overview of the electricity sector's demand and supply side environmental regulations. This brief focuses on supply-side regulations and investigates...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 194257 Date du document: 30 septembre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Viktoriya Ereshchenko,Elena Popic
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March 2023 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) : What’s New (anglais)
The March 2023 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. In particular, some welfare aggregates have been revised...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 181012 Date du document: 1 mars 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: R.Andres Castaneda Aguilar,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Fujs,Tony Henri Mathias Jany,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Kotikula,Aphichoke,Lakner,Christoph,Lara Ibarra,Gabriel,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Montalva Talledo,Veronica Sonia,Nguyen,Minh Cong
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Digitizing Cash Transfers to Remote Rural Populations : Challenges and Solutions from the Experience of Zambia (anglais)
There is currently a major focus on digitization within African countries, with the interest of, on the one hand, increasing efficiency and lowering the cost-of-service delivery, and on the other hand...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 177338 Date du document: 1 octobre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hobson,Emma Sameh Wadie,Kilfoil,Craig Patrick,Martin,Andrea
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Guatemala Jobs Diagnostic (anglais)
Building back better’ has become a popular theme guiding the world’s post-Covid19 recovery efforts; in few middle-income countries this appears to be more pressing than in Guatemala. Over a decade of lackluster...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 157900 Date du document: 1 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Eberhard-Ruiz,Andreas
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Welfare and Competition (WELCOM) : A Simulation Approach (anglais)
This note focuses on the welfare and competition (WELCOM) microsimulation tool. WELCOM, an easy-to-use stata-based package with minimum data requirements, was conceived as part of larger World Bank efforts...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 151250 Date du document: 1 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos,Malasquez Carbonel,Eduardo Alonso,Granguillhome Ochoa,Rogelio
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The Fight against Corruption : Taming Tigers and Swatting Flies (anglais)
Corruption robs the public of precious resources, distorts the incentives to engage in productive activities, destroys confidence in public institutions, and spurs political instability. It disproportionately...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 145050 Date du document: 1 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chuah,Lay Lian,Loayza,Norman V.,Myers,C. Bernard
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Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey (anglais)
This paper examines the quality of management practices in Turkey and its relation to other firm-level characteristics such as firm performance, competition, and type of ownership. A key finding is that...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 136314 Date du document: 1 avril 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Del Carpio,Ximena Vanessa,Taskin,Temel
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Investing in Childcare for Women's Economic Empowerment (anglais)
Two thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s citizens depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Women make up a large part of the agricultural workforce: in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), over 80...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 129432 Date du document: 1 août 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Donald,Aletheia Amalia,Campos,Francisco Moraes Leitao,Vaillant,Julia,Cucagna,Maria Emilia
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Laos - Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : twenty-seventh report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (anglais)
The 27th Report to the Government of Lao PDR (GOL) of the Panel of Experts (POE) on its mission of November-December 2017 reviews achievement of the Resettlement Objectives and Provisions (ROPs) in the...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: POE27 Date du document: 1 mai 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mcdowell,David K.,Mann,Elizabeth,Talbot,Lee M.
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Expansion of the benefits package : the experience of Armenia (anglais)
The legacy of the Semashko system left Armenia with an oversized and overstaffed health system. Beginning in the 1990s the country focused on re-designing its health system in an attempt to rationalize...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 122829 Date du document: 1 janvier 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lavado,Rouselle F.,Hayrapetyan,Susanna,Kharazyan,Samvel
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Energy analytics for development: big data for energy access, energy efficiency, and renewable energy (anglais)
With unprecedented speed and scale, digital transformation is affecting multiple industries, including energy. A combination of technologies, and a more complex world demanding greater agility and new...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 119685 Date du document: 1 septembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lerner Nesbitt,Anna,Dalphond, Zhenia Viatchaninova,Gee, Matthew,Plagge, Thomas
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Migration and remittances : recent developments and outlook : Global compact on migration (anglais)
This Migration and Development Brief provides an update on worldwide remittance flows and the global migration crisis. It focuses on two Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators: reducing remittance...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 129451 Date du document: 27 avril 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ratha,Dilip Kumar,De,Supriyo,Plaza,Sonia,Schuettler,Kirsten,Seshan,Ganesh Kumar,Wyss,Hanspeter,Yameogo,Nadege Desiree
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How banks can seize opportunities in climate and green investment (anglais)
Climate change presents risks and opportunities for the financial sector in both emerging and advanced economies. Financial institutions cannot afford to be outside of the transition path to low-carbon...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 112688 Date du document: 1 décembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Li,Wenxin,Nguyen,Quyen Thuc,Narayanaswamy,Meera
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Indonesia - Sustaining the forest livelihoods of indigenous communities for the long term (anglais)
Indonesia’s biodiversity and cultural diversity are among what make it unique among the nations of the world. Out of more than one thousand government identified ethnic groups, roughly two hundred and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 125743 Date du document: 1 décembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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The Bank’s Fitness Center (anglais)
The World Bank Group’s well-equipped Fitness Centers have been a part of Bank life for numerous staff for many years—so long, in fact, that few people today recall its humble and precarious origins. In...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104651 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Real-time passenger information : getting it right (anglais)
The widening use of smartphones, high urbanization rates, and the rapid evolution of technologies are driving the expansion of real time passenger information (RTPI) systems for urban transport services...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 107701 Date du document: 1 novembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pulido,Daniel,Canales,Diego
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Real-time passenger information : getting it right (anglais)
The widening use of smartphones, high urbanization rates, and the rapid evolution of technologies are driving the expansion of real time passenger information (RTPI) systems for urban transport services...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 101140 Date du document: 1 novembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pulido,Daniel,Canales Salas,Diego
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Are we confusing poverty with preferences? (anglais)
Modifying the national poverty line to the context of observed consumption patterns of the poor is becoming popular. A context-specific poverty line would be more consistent with preferences. This paper...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125543 Date du document: 1 avril 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Boom,Bart van den,Halsema,Alex,Molini,Vasco
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Will migrants remit more if they can channel payments directly for education? lab-in-the-field and proof of concept trial results (anglais)
This note summarizes a proof of concept trial of a new product designed to allow migrants to send remittances for educational purposes. Migrant remittances are one of the largest international financial...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 90901 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Arcangelis, Giuseppe,Joxhe, Majlinda,Mckenzie,David J.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Yang,Dean
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Community based paralegalism in the Philippines : from social movements to democratization (anglais)
Community-based paralegalism has been active in the Philippines for the past 30 years, and yet its contribution to access to justice and the advancement of the rights and entitlements of the poor has been...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 86000 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Franco, Jennifer ,Soliman, Hector ,Cisnero, Maria Roda