Documents et rapports
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Natural disaster damage indices based on remotely sensed data : an application to Indonesia (anglais)
Combining nightlight data as a proxy for economic activity with remote sensing data typically used for natural hazard modeling, this paper constructs novel damage indices at the district level for Indonesia...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125567 Date du document: 1 septembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Strobl,Eric,Skouas, Emmanuel,Tveit,Thomas Breivik
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Arab development symposium second : invigorating SMEs in the Arab World (anglais)
In March 2010, the Arab fund for economic and social development and the World Bank (Middle East and North Africa region) agreed to hold joint high-level development seminars around issues pertaining to...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 90146 Date du document: 1 mars 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Limam, Imed,Rouis,Mustapha
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Changing for the better : the path to upper-middle-income status in Uzbekistan (anglais)
As a low-middle-income country with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of US$1,715 and a population of 30 million (nearly half of all of the Central Asian population), Uzbekistan has seen stable...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 78250 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carneiro,Francisco Galrao,Trushin,Eskender
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Commodity markets review (December 2011) (anglais)
Non-energy commodity prices fell by 3.3 percent in November a fourth straight monthly decrease on continued concerns about global demand, and in part due to dollar appreciation (up 1.3 percent against...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 66772 Date du document: 9 décembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Mainstreaming environment and climate change in the implementation of poverty reduction strategies (anglais)
Poverty reduction strategies (PRSs) provide a central framework for macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in developing countries. Because of the numerous and complex links between environment...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 50082 Date du document: 1 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Griebenow, Gonzalo, Kishore, Sunanda
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Climate policy processes, local institutions, and adaptation actions : mechanisms of translation and influence (anglais)
This paper focuses on the experience of the national level adaptation planning efforts and the lessons that can be derived for more effective adaptation from an examination of local governance of development...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51414 Date du document: 1 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Agrawal,Arun,Perrin,Nicolas,Chhatre,Ashwini,Wahlen,Catherine Benson,Kononen,Minna Maria
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Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (anglais)
Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) is a process that contributes to security and stability by disarming combatants, removing them from military structures, and socially and economically...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51415 Date du document: 1 février 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nezam,Taies,Marc,Alexandre
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Tax compliance costs for small business in South Africa, web-survey of tax practitioners : provincial data analysis (anglais)
At the request of the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service (SARS), the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS, a multi-donor facility of the World Bank Group) provided assistance...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51708 Date du document: 1 décembre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Coolidge,Jacqueline,Ilic,Domagoj,Kisunko,Gregory
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Global food price crisis : trade policy origins (anglais)
The current spike in global food prices has deep roots in decades of trade distorting policies that have encouraged inefficient agricultural production in rich countries and discouraged efficient production...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44898 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chauffour,Jean-Pierre Christophe
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Brazil : the role of the tobacco control program in curbing smoking (anglais)
Available evidence indicates that there was a significant decline in smoking in Brazil between 1989 and 2006. About two decades ago, the government launched a tobacco control program, with a marked acceleration...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44689 Date du document: 1 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Iglesias,Roberto Magno,Jha,Prabhat K.,Pinto,Marcia,Cilia De Mira Godinho,Maria Joana,Costa e Silva, Vera Luiza da
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Brazil : the role of the tobacco control program in curbing smoking : Brasil : o papel do programa nacional de controle do tabagismo em seu esforco para controlar o tabagismo (portugais)
Available evidence indicates that there was a significant decline in smoking in Brazil between 1989 and 2006. About two decades ago, the government launched a tobacco control program, with a marked acceleration...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44689 Date du document: 1 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Iglesias,Roberto Magno,Jha,Prabhat K.,Pinto,Marcia,Cilia De Mira Godinho,Maria Joana,Costa e Silva, Vera Luiza da
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Communication-Based assessment for Bank operations (anglais)
The World Bank and other development organizations work closely with governments to improve the living conditions of people in developing countries, expanding their development visions and helping them...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 40561 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chaman-Ruiz, Karla,Mitchell, Paul
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Sénégal - Programme urbain de développement et de décentralisation (PUDD) (français)
Le Programme urbain de développement et de décentralisation pour le Sénégal, qui a bénéficié d’un crédit de 75 millions de dollars, a été mis en œuvre entre 1998-2004. Il comportait 4 objectifs de développement :...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 35531 Date du document: 1 décembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Farvacque-Vitkovic,Catherine D.
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Senegal - Urban development and decentralization program (anglais)
The Senegal - Urban Development and Decentralization Program provided a credit of $75 million and was implemented over the years 1998-2004. It had 4 development objectives: (i) improve the financial and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 35531 Date du document: 1 décembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Farvacque-Vitkovic,Catherine D.
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Ethnic networks and access to credit : evidence from the manufacturing sector in Kenya (anglais)
It is often anecdotally observed that networks can facilitate exchange, but there are few empirical studies that explore the significance of such networks. In this paper the authors analyze the impact...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 56883 Date du document: 1 décembre 2001 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Biggs,Tyler S.,Raturi,Mayank,Srivastava,Pradeep
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Questions liées aux inégalités de sexes en Éthiopie : mise en œuvre de la politique nationale de promotion féminine (français)
La Politique nationale de promotion féminine (Politique sur la femme) définie en 1993, avait pour objectifs de créer des structures appropriées au sein des institutions et des services publics, et d’élaborer...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57143 Date du document: 1 juillet 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Gender issues in Ethiopia : implementing the national policy on women (anglais)
The National Policy on Women (Women's Policy) formulated in 1993, aimed to create appropriate structures within government offices and institutions to establish equitable and gender-sensitive public policies...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57143 Date du document: 1 septembre 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Power project finance : experience in developing countries (anglais)
This study analyzes the 1994-96 private power market to assess trends in market competition, financing structures and sources, and risk allocation. This analysis will provide insights to help governments...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 18901 Date du document: 31 janvier 1998 Auteur: Babbar,Suman,Schuster,John
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Telecommunications is dead, long live networking : the effect of the information revolution on the telecom industry (anglais)
The author looks at how the drivers of the information revolution are transforming the structure of the telecommunications industry. The end of natural monopoly, the breakdown of the old pricing mechanisms...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 17126 Date du document: 31 juillet 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bond,James P.
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From foodline to lifeline : rural roads in Morocco (anglais)
This Precis entitled, From foodline to lifeline : rural roads in Morocco, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Impact evaluation report, Morocco : Socioeconomic impact of...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 28687 Date du document: 1 juin 1996 Auteur: Gentile,Angela M.