Despite near-universal access to financial services in advanced economies, financial exclusion is stubbornly persistent in many emerging markets, leaving huge swaths of low-income populations unbanked...
On October 15, 2020, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and nine. It was resolved that the Council of Governors of the Agency considers...
Digital financial services (DFS) differ from traditional financial services in several ways that have major implications for regulators. The technology enables new operating models that involve a wider...
This paper uses nationally representative panel data and a combination of econometric approaches, to explore linkages between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare...
Environmental stress is a serious concern in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Recent years have witnessed important changes that are pushing the boundaries of the region's environmental...
This note studies the long-run impacts of policies aimed at fostering gender equality on economic growth in Brazil. After a brief review of gender issues in Brazil, this note describes a framework for...
The study is a joint product of the department of land affairs of South Africa and the World Bank. It analyzes an innovative land reform project in South Africa. The project was the result of collective...
This paper draws on a qualitative panel study of village politics in ten rural localities in Andhra Pradesh in order to examine the changes in configurations of local elites across two local elections...
Brazil has made considerable progress toward macroeconomic stability since reform measures began to take hold in the early 1990s, and its economy has produced stronger growth as a result-an average of...
Brazil has made considerable progress toward macroeconomic stability since reform measures began to take hold in the early 1990s, and its economy has produced stronger growth as a result-an average of...
In Community-Driven Development (CDD) programs, communities identify, prioritize, design and execute small scale investments. While relevance and community ownership have been high, it is also crucial...
Dans le cadre des programmes de développement axés sur la communauté (PDC), les communautés identifient, classent par ordre de priorité, conçoivent et exécutent de petits investissements. Bien que leur...
Le Burundi sort d’une décennie de baisse économique et sociale résultant du violent conflit civil des années 1990. Un accord de paix et de réconciliation a été signé en 2000 et la transition politique...
This document specifies, most east asian countries have increasingly shifted responsibilities for infrastructure services to subnational tiers of governments. Infrastructure service provision involves...
It is now recognized that invasive alien species (IAS) pose a major threat to agricultural and natural ecosystems, and to human health and livelihoods. These non-native species, which are accidentally...
The Swazi government is currently developing sector strategies aimed at achieving universal completion of 10-year basic education with good quality by 2015. This is one step further from universal primary...
The project ( 1996-2001 - US$22 million credit ) was uniquely designed as a risk management instrument - it conceived the establishment of a viable, government-run system of drought management, through...
Ce projet (1996–2001 - crédit de 22 millions de dollars) était exceptionnellement conçu comme un instrument de gestion des risques - il prévoyait la mise en place d’un système viable de gestion de la sécheresse...
Cette note décrit une méthodologie de collecte de l’information pour la surveillance des programmes de réformes micro-économiques. Pour faciliter l’explication de cette méthode, la note concentre uniquement...
This paper describes a methodology for collecting information to monitor reform programs at the microeconomic level. Since narrowing the focus makes the explanation of this methodology more tractable the...