In 2018, International Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) shareholders authorized a capital increase of 5.5 billion dollars, the largest increase in its history. The capital increase was based on a strategy...
On July 31, 2020, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and eight. It was resolved that the 2020 regular election of directors shall...
This paper explores new approaches to address risks and problems in five areas: disclosure of loan terms and conditions; marketing approaches to promote responsible borrowing; appropriate and tailored...
This paper studies the gender-based differences in access to and return from economic activities in the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) using panel datasets from Uganda and Ethiopia. The results show that...
The process of political change and transition across much of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continued into 2013, with a great degree of heterogeneity across countries. The crisis in Syria...
Established in 2010, the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) carries significant economic weight as three of its member countries represent a potentially large consumer market. Drawing on existing literature...
The volume on agricultural price distortions, inequality and poverty begins with a global study that uses the World Bank's linkage model to examine the economic impacts in various countries, regions and...
Under investment in infrastructure and social sectors during much of the 1990s has ignited a lively debate on "fiscal space"- that is, whether some countries could tolerate a larger public deficit if the...
This study provides an overview of how World Bank-financed policy-based loans (both structural adjustment loans and Development Policy Lending's) (DPLs) have supported social accountability approaches...
This note provides selected measurements of public sector size for the countries and territories of the Americas and discusses the resulting differences across countries and territories and across the...
This note provides selected measurements of public sector size for the countries and territories of the Americas and discusses the resulting differences across countries and territories and across the...
This note emphasizes that Community Foundations present a practical instrument to supplement larger cultural heritage projects and to support the preservation and use of cultural heritage applying community...
L’objectif de ce rapport est d’identifier des manières d’accroître la compétitivité du Bénin, du Burkina Faso, du Tchad et du Mali (les 4 principaux pays producteurs de coton) au moyen de réformes sectorielles...
The objective of this report is to identify ways of enhancing competitiveness through sector reforms in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali (the Cotton-4). The report promotes best practices to manage...
The World Bank, working together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), actively supports the development of a regional power market in the GMS: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Yunnan...
The Poverty Action Fund (PAF) was introduced in Uganda in 1998 to reorient government expenditures towards implementing its Poverty Education Action Plan (PEAP) as well as to account for Heavily Indebted...
One of the most difficult issues to be addressed in enabling, and conducting invasive control measures, is simply the need to apply practical legislative reasoning to the process. It is difficult because...
Foundation for Research on Women's Health, Productivity and the Environment (BAFROW) is a local women's Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in The Gambia that is considered an example of best practice...
La Fondation pour la recherche sur la santé des femmes, la productivité et l’environnement (BAFROW) est une ONG locale de femmes en Gambie qui est considérée comme étant un exemple de « meilleure pratique »...
This evaluation of the Mauritius Technology Diffusion Scheme was undertaken to serve as a "benchmark" for assessing matching grant schemes in other countries. It is the first microeconomic study evaluating...