Documents et rapports
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The distributional impact of taxes and social spending in Croatia (anglais)
This paper describes the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty, and examines recent policy changes and whether there is room for an increased role for fiscal policy in improving the well-being...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125568 Date du document: 1 septembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Inchauste Comboni,Maria Gabriela,Rubil, Ivica
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Why MENA needs a finance and private sector Marshall plan (anglais)
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a largely middle income (MIC) region however, it tends to perform more like a low income (LIC) region on many critical financial and private sector economic indicators...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 90147 Date du document: 1 mars 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ridenour,Stefanie Lynn
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How to avoid middle-income traps? : evidence from Malaysia (anglais)
Malaysia's structural transformation from low to middle income has made it one of the most prominent manufacturing exporters in the world. However, in the competitive global economy, like many other middle-income...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 78651 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Flaaen, Aaron,Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Mishra,Saurabh
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Commodity markets review (January 2012) (anglais)
Non-energy commodity prices fell by 2.7 percent in December, a fifth straight monthly decrease, on concerns about global demand, and in part due to dollar appreciation (up 3.0 percent against the euro)...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 66773 Date du document: 13 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and climate change : the economic problem (anglais)
Climate change is both a cause and an effect of biodiversity change. Along with anthropogenic dispersion, climate change is the main driver of change in the geographical distribution of both beneficial...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 58165 Date du document: 1 novembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Perrings,Charles Aubrey
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Securing tenure rights and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) : costs and lessons learned (anglais)
This paper attempts to contribute to the discussion of scaling-up the recognition of tenure rights within the efforts to reduce forest carbon emissions and to put the costs of recognizing tenure rights...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 54655 Date du document: 1 décembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hatcher, Jeffrey
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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: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 54681 Date du document: 1 août 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Agrawal,Arun,Perrin,Nicolas
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Umbrella restructuring of a multicountry program (horizontal APL) : restructuring the multicountry HIV/AIDS program (MAP) in Africa (anglais)
This volume documents the experience of a sector-level umbrella restructuring of a multicountry program (horizontal adaptable program loan (APL)). Eight HIV/AIDS projects were restructured having a total...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51709 Date du document: 1 octobre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mohammad,Nadeem,Mugwagwa,Norbert O.
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Global food price crisis : trade policy options (anglais)
The current global food price crisis has deep historical roots in the distortions of the world trading system. Trade policy options to deal with the crisis involve correcting these historical distortions...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44899 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chauffour,Jean-Pierre Christophe
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Hospital performance in Brazil : the search for excellence : Desempenho hospitalar no Brasil : a busca da excelencia (portugais)
Hospitals are at the center of the health care universe in Brazil. When ill, many Brazilians go straight to the hospital for want of a family doctor or primary care network. Hospitals are a critical part...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44690 Date du document: 1 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Couttolenc,Bernard F.,La Forgia, Gerard M.
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Hospital performance in Brazil : the search for excellence (anglais)
Hospitals are at the center of the health care universe in Brazil. When ill, many Brazilians go straight to the hospital for want of a family doctor or primary care network. Hospitals are a critical part...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44690 Date du document: 1 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Couttolenc,Bernard F.,La Forgia, Gerard M.
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Scaling up demand-side energy efficiency improvements through programmatic CDM,Scaling up demand-side energy efficiency improvements through programmatic CDM,Scaling up demand-side energy efficiency improvements through programmatic CDM (Accélérer les améliorations de l’efficacité énergétique du côté de la demande grâce aux MDP programmatiques) (anglais)
Improving energy efficiency (EE) is one of the most promising approaches for achieving cost-effective global greenhouse gases (GHG) reductions. However, it is severely underrepresented in the Clean Development...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 47734 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Figueres, Christiana, Philips, Michael
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Communicating the impact of communication for development : recent trends in empirical research (anglais)
The UN Millennium Development Goals call for not only greater financial commitment in international assistance programs but also innovative strategies to tackle the serious economic, health, education...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 40543 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Inogaki, Nobuya
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Tanzania - Urban sector rehabilitation (anglais)
The Urban Sector Rehabilitation Project (URSP) consisted of a large program of infrastructure rehabilitation works and institutional reform activities covering 8 project towns - Arusha, Iringa, Morogoro...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 35533 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Tanzanie : Réhabilitation du secteur urbain (français)
Le projet de réhabilitation du secteur urbain (PRSU) consistait en un grand programme de travaux de réhabilitation des infrastructures et d’activités de réforme institutionnelle couvrant 8 villes : Arusha...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 35533 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Le changement du climat et l’Afrique subsaharienne : problèmes et opportunités (français)
C’est essentiellement en raison des menaces potentielles sur le développement et les vies humaines de ce que l’on connaît sous le nom de changement climatique que la Banque mondiale s’implique dans un...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 22119 Date du document: 1 juillet 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dalfelt,Arne
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Climate change and Sub-Saharan Africa : issues and opportunities (anglais)
Largely due to the potential threats to development, and human lives of well known climate changes, the World Bank is getting involved in a range of activities under the subject. The note focuses on climate...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 22119 Date du document: 31 octobre 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dalfelt,Arne
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Bidding for private concessions : the use of World Bank guarantees (anglais)
This report identifies the critical issues that are involved in the tendering and evaluation stages of bidding for private concessions. It draws on a survey of bidding experience in eight water and toll...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 18926 Date du document: 31 janvier 1998
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Liberalizing telecommunications and the role of the World Trade Organization (anglais)
In February 1997, sixty-nine governments of high-income and developing countries agreed to liberalize their basic telecommunications services under an agreement negotiated through the World Trade Organization...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 17127 Date du document: 31 juillet 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Braga,Carlos Alberto Primo
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Restructuring Senegal's ailing banks (anglais)
This Precis entitled, Restructuring Senegal's ailing banks, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Senegal : Fourth structural adjustment credit and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 28688 Date du document: 1 juin 1996 Auteur: EBRAHIMI, FARAH