Documents et rapports
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The poverty implications of alternative tax reforms : results from a numerical application to Pakistan (anglais)
This paper presents results from four simulations of the impact of potential tax reforms in Pakistan on poverty, shared prosperity, and inequality. The simulations are carried out in the context of a dynamic...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125564 Date du document: 1 août 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Feltenstein,Andrew,Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina,Newhouse,David Locke,Sedrakyan, Gohar
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Promoting financial inclusion for growth and development in Iraq (anglais)
A well-functioning financial sector is critical for efficient resource allocation leading to increased productivity, greater investment, and higher overall levels of economic growth. This is particularly...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 87549 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abdel Aziz,Teymour,Mcconaghy,Peter
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Asset prices, macro prudential regulation, and monetary policy (anglais)
Confidence in combining inflation-targeting-cum-flexible-exchange-rate regimes with isolated micro prudential regulation as a means to guarantee both macroeconomic and financial stability has been shattered...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 77453 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Canuto, Otaviano, Cavallari, Matheus
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Commodity markets review (September 2011) (anglais)
Non-energy commodity prices fell by 1.6 percent in August while energy prices dropped 6.3 percent. Most of the declines were for industrial commodities owing to concerns about demand and numerous macro...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 64839 Date du document: 12 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks : methods for investigation at local and national levels (anglais)
Effective planning for climate change adaptation programming in developing countries requires a fine-grained assessment of local vulnerabilities, practices and adaptation options and preferences. While...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51412 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kuriakose,Anne T., Bizikova, Livia ,Bachofen,Carina Andrea
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Strategic environmental assessment : improving water resources governance and decision making - case studies (anglais)
The overall goal of this report is to help water resources and environment professionals within the Bank and client countries use strategic environmental assessment (SEA) to effectively implement the principles...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: 48899 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hirji,Rafik Fatehali,Davis,Richard
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Methods for studying rural institutions, networks, and capacity in the developing world : mobilizing rural institutions (anglais)
This note outlines two methods developed by the Mobilizing Rural Institutions study to assess and compare the governance capacities of local institutions and their network relationships in any local context...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 69095 Date du document: 1 décembre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Agrawal,Arun,Mcsweeney,Catherine S.,Perrin,Nicolas
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Taking stock of community initiatives in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa : experience, issues, and challenges : Taking stock of community initiatives in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa : experience, issues, and challenges (anglais)
This paper clarifies the concepts of community initiatives since organizations involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS use different definitions of 'community.' It presents several HIV initiatives taken...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51705 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Delion,Jean J.,Dulvy,Elizabeth Ninan
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Brazil - Enhancing performance in Brazil's health sector : lessons from innovations in the state of Sao Paulo and the city of Curitiba (anglais)
The inadequacy of public services in Brazil today constrains the country's economic growth and social development. The volume of government expenditure is not the principal bottleneck: at over 40 percent...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44686 Date du document: 1 février 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Matzuda, Yasuhiko,Rinne,Jeffrey James,Shepherd,Geoffrey,Santos,Juliana Wenceslau Biriba
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Millennium development goals and Africa : an alternative view (anglais)
In this note the author argue that although the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can have been better specified, they have served a purpose, namely, to galvanize support among concerned donors to increase...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44895 Date du document: 1 février 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Leipziger,Danny M.
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Vocational education in the new EU member states : enhancing labor market outcomes and fiscal efficiency (anglais)
This report explores the fiscal aspects of vocational education reform in the context of secondary education as a whole and considers the implications of any changes in the vocational education (VE) system...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 40560 Date du document: 1 juin 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Canning,Mary,Godfrey,Martin E.,Holzer-Zelazewska,Dorota
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Strengthening energy security in Uruguay (anglais)
The Uruguayan energy sector is at the crossroads. As in the case of many other countries, high oil prices in the international market are taking their toll on an economy which imports all of its oil and...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 40243 Date du document: 1 mai 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Mauritania : the Rainfed Natural Resource Management Project (anglais)
This article, extracted from an Implementation Completion Report, centers on the Mauritania Natural Resources Management Project ( Projet de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles en Zones Pluviales - PGRNP...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33650 Date du document: 1 septembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ba, Amadou Omar
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Mauritanie : projet de gestion des ressources naturelles en zones pluviales (français)
Cet article, tiré d’un Rapport de fin d’exécution, porte sur le Projet de gestion des ressources naturelles en zones pluviales (PGRNP) de la Mauritanie (1998-2003) qui avait deux objectifs précis : 1)...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33650 Date du document: 1 septembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ba, Amadou Omar
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The manufacturing sector in sub-Saharan Africa : an analysis based on firm surveys in seven countries (anglais)
The economies of sub-Saharan Africa have gone through major changes over the last three decades. The Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) survey of the manufacturing sector in the first half...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 56891 Date du document: 1 septembre 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mazumdar,Dipak,Mazaheri,Ata
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Système de desserte à escales multiples ou Système de transbordement transport maritime de conteneurs entre l’Afrique de l’ouest et l’Europe (français)
Dans un système de desserte à escales de transport maritime de conteneurs, le fret destiné à une région est d’abord débarqué sur un port d’éclatement, puis acheminé vers sa destination finale par voie...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57139 Date du document: 1 mai 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Hub and spoke vs. multiple ports of call (anglais)
In a hub and spoke system of containerized seaborne trade, cargo to a region is delivered first to a primary hub port and then transported to its final destination, whether by sea, rail, road or inland...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57139 Date du document: 1 août 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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What factors determine auction prices in privatization? (anglais)
Do the timing and type of auction affect the sale price? What kind of restructuring is worth doing before privatization? The author examines how much these and other factors affect privatization prices...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 16873 Date du document: 30 juin 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lopez-De-Silanes,Florencio
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Structural adjustment lending in Jordan (anglais)
This Precis entitled, Structural adjustment in Jordan, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Jordan : Industrial and trade policy adjustment loan...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 28684 Date du document: 1 juin 1996 Auteur: EBRAHIMI, FARAH
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Structural adjustment lending in Jordan : El ajuste estructural en Jordania (espagnol)
This Precis entitled, Structural adjustment in Jordan, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Jordan : Industrial and trade policy adjustment loan...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 28684 Date du document: 1 juin 1996 Auteur: EBRAHIMI, FARAH