Documents et rapports
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Regressive or progressive? The effect of tobacco taxes in Ukraine (anglais)
Tobacco taxes are usually considered regressive as the poorest individuals allocate larger shares of their budget towards the purchase of tobacco related products. However, because these taxes also discourage...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125569 Date du document: 1 septembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Meneses,Francisco Jalles
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Ten years after Morocco's family code reforms : are gender gaps closing? (anglais)
In 2004, the Government of Morocco (GoM) made major amendments to its family code, known as the Moudawana, which covers personal status issues such as marriage, divorce, alimony, child support, child custody...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 90148 Date du document: 1 avril 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Prettitore,Paul Scott
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Investment financing in the wake of the crisis : the role of multilateral development banks (anglais)
Sustained growth in emerging markets and developing economies requires long-term, reliable capital to finance productive investment, including in basic infrastructure. However, the availability and composition...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 78974 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chelsky,Jeffrey Allen,Morel,Claire Valerie,Kabir,Mabruk
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Commodity markets review (February 2012) (anglais)
The dollar price of non-energy commodities rose by 2.9 percent in January, the first increase in six months, on various weather-related supply constraints, improving macro sentiment, and in part due to...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 66774 Date du document: 10 février 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Mitigating climate change through restoration and management of coastal wetlands and near-shore marine ecosystems : challenges and opportunities (anglais)
There is overwhelming consensus amongst climate scientists that the Earth's warming in recent decades has been caused primarily by human activities that have increased the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs)...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 60578 Date du document: 1 mars 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Crooks, Stephen,Herr, Dorothee,Tamelander, Jerker,Laffoley, Dan,Vandever, Justin
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Capitalizing on assets : vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Nepal (anglais)
Nepal's geographical landscape of plains, hills and mountains exposes it to severe climatic conditions. Out of the three regions, the plain, also called Terai, has the greatest risk of flooding, especially...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 54656 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dulal,Hari Bansha,Brodnig,Gernot,Onoriose, Charity G.,Thakur, Hemanta K.
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Sharing benefits from carbon finance : lessons from the Guangxi CDM project (anglais)
Carbon finance projects are often intended to be both a payment for an environmental service (PES) and an instrument to facilitate sustainable development in developing countries. To enhance livelihood...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 53194 Date du document: 1 décembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brodnig,Gernot
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Quality and marketing of cotton lint in Africa (anglais)
This paper presents an analysis of the objective outcome of cotton sector liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of quality, marketing, and pricing. It gives an overview of the world cotton market...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51710 Date du document: 1 octobre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Estur,Gerald
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Information access, governance, and service delivery in key sectors : themes and lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia (anglais)
Kenya and Ethiopia are focused on four key sectors: health, education, water and sanitation, and private sector development. As part of the World Bank Netherlands Partnership Program on nurturing information...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44900 Date du document: 1 juillet 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Khadiagala,Gilbert M,Kpundeh,Sahr John
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Prova Brasil : building a framework to promote measurable progress in learning outcomes : Prova Brasil : desarrollo de un marco de referencia para promover el progreso cuantificable de los resultados de aprendizaje (espagnol)
Building on two decades of education reform, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) implemented a key instrument for measuring education quality in 2005, when it first administered Prova Brasil, a nationwide...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44691 Date du document: 1 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amorim,Erica Pereira,Parandekar,Suhas D.,Welsh,Andrea
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Prova Brasil : building a framework to promote measurable progress in learning outcomes : Prova Brasil : construindo um arcabouco para mensurar o progresso nos resultados da aprendizagem (portugais)
Building on two decades of education reform, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) implemented a key instrument for measuring education quality in 2005, when it first administered Prova Brasil, a nationwide...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44691 Date du document: 1 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amorim,Erica Pereira,Parandekar,Suhas D.,Welsh,Andrea
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Prova Brasil : building a framework to promote measurable progress in learning outcomes (anglais)
Building on two decades of education reform, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) implemented a key instrument for measuring education quality in 2005, when it first administered Prova Brasil, a nationwide...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44691 Date du document: 1 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amorim,Erica Pereira,Parandekar,Suhas D.,Welsh,Andrea
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Setting standards for communication and governance : the example of infrastructure projects (anglais)
This paper outlines a number of practical initiatives to strengthen the role of development communication in infrastructure projects. The authors aim to facilitate better quality projects and to build...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 40562 Date du document: 1 juin 2007 Auteur: J.M. Hass, Lawrence,Mazzei,Leonardo,O'Leary,Donal T.
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Nigeria - Design of the community social development project (CSDP) (français)
L’examen de conception du Projet nigérian de développement social communautaire (PDSC) a commencé en mars 2005, l’évaluation du projet ayant été prévue début 2006. La conception du PDSC intègre des éléments...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 35534 Date du document: 1 février 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Watkins,Sharon L.
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Nigeria - Design of the community social development project (CSDP) (anglais)
The concept review for the Nigeria Community Social Development Project (CSDP) began in March 2005 with project appraisal scheduled for early 2006. The design of the CSDP incorporates innovative elements...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 35534 Date du document: 1 février 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Watkins,Sharon L.
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Améliorer la gestion de la fertilité du sol en Afrique subsaharienne (français)
L’Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) compte plus de 60 millions de petits exploitants agricoles. La baisse de la fertilité des sols est un obstacle fondamental à la croissance agricole et la cause majeure de...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57145 Date du document: 1 août 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Graeme Donovan, Frank Casey
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Improving soil fertility management in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
There are more than 60 million smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Declining soil fertility is a fundamental impediment to agricultural growth and a major reason for slow growth in food production...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 57145 Date du document: 1 octobre 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Graeme Donovan, Frank Casey
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Financing Jamaica's Rockfort Independent Power Project : a review of experience for future projects (anglais)
The Rockfort power project in Jamaica is one of the first cases in which financing from multilateral financial institutions has been successfully used to mobilize private sector financing for a limited...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 18927 Date du document: 28 février 1998 Auteur: Sutherland, Basil
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What the transformation of telecom markets means for regulation (anglais)
In most countries, telecommunications regulators no longer regulate a static, monopolistic industry that provides essentially a single product, telephone service, but a dynamic, multiproduct, multi operator...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 17383 Date du document: 31 juillet 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Smith, Peter
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Debt management in the Philippines (anglais)
This Precis entitled, Debt management in the Philippines, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Philippines : Debt management program project, Report...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 28689 Date du document: 1 juin 1996 Auteur: Mcnees,Pat A.