In fragile states and areas beset by insecurity and conflict, the time available for a face-to-face interview is typically limited. That prevents administering the lengthy household consumption expenditure...
Against the backdrop of a slowing global economy and lower commodity prices, economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is stagnating. The World Bank 2015 MENA economic monitor report projects...
Successful entry into export markets and the subsequent survival of export flows are crucial if a country is to grow and diversify its export base. The accumulated experience of firms that export a particular...
Asset disclosure (AD) systems also referred to as financial disclosure or asset declarations can play two important roles within broader anticorruption efforts prevention and enforcement. On the prevention...
Tertiary education in Chile has been transformed radically over the past 20 years. As recently as 1990, tertiary education was an elite system centered on a handful of traditional universities which served...
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) supported High Forest Biodiversity Conservation Project intended to increase the ecological security of globally significant biological resources, especially within...
Ce document porte sur l’état des services météorologiques et climatiques d’Europe et d’Asie centrale. À l’échelle du globe, la précision et la valeur des services météorologiques et climatiques augmentent...
Au début de l’année 1998, la Banque mondiale a préparé un document sur les politiques de décentralisation et de participation qui ont été décrites sans être entièrement mises en œuvre par le gouvernement...
In early 1998, the World Bank prepared a paper on the decentralization and participation policies outlined but not fully implemented by the Congolese government in the early days of the third republic...
A project finance structure allows water projects with attractive cash flows and risk profiles to secure long-term private capital. But even in industrial countries the credit strength of off-taking municipal...
This Precis entitled, Poland's reforms : achievements and unfinished agenda, complements the Bank ' s Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Evaluation Study : Poland country assistance review, Report...
This Precis entitled, Poland's reforms : achievements and unfinished agenda, complements the Bank ' s Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Evaluation Study : Poland country assistance review, Report...
Ce précis, intitulé « Les réformes en Pologne : l’acquis et l’inachevé », vient compléter l’étude d’évaluation du Département de l’évaluation des opérations de la Banque (OED) de la Banque mondiale, intitulée...
On September 14, 1990 , the International Development Association (IDA) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and fifty one. It was resolved that, the terms and conditions upon which...
On October 3, 1986, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and fifty-one. It was resolved that the Board of Governors of the Corporation consider...
On September 19, 1961, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and fifty-one. It was resolved that the Board of Governors of...
This press release announces the appointment of Walter Hill as Special Representative of the Bank's Paris office on October 17, 1949.