Documents et rapports
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Western Balkans Regular Economic Report : Invigorating Growth (anglais)
Economic growth in the Western Balkans slowed to 2.6 percent in 2023, from the 3.4 percent reached in 2022, reflecting the impact of a weak European economy weighed down by sequential shocks. Overall...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 188979 Date du document: 5 avril 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Natasha Rovo,Richard Record,Isolina Rossi
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Digitizing Court Systems: Benefits and Limitations (anglais)
The eagerness with which governments across the world rushed to digitize their court systems during the COVID-19 pandemic might create an impression that new technologies alone can solve the multitude...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 186855 Date du document: 22 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maroz,Raman,Popova,Oleksandra,Santiago Satizábal Acosta
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October 2022 Update to the Global Database of Shared Prosperity : What’s New (anglais)
The October 2022 update introduces the 10th edition of the Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP). Shared prosperity, defined as the growth in per capita household income or consumption of the poorest...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 177271 Date du document: 21 octobre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sabatino Gonzalez,Carlos Gerardo,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Wu,Haoyu
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Solar Systems Bring Light to Remote Areas of Yemen (anglais)
A 250,000 US dollars ESMAP grant helped support the reengagement of the World Bank in the Yemeni power sector through the 50 million IDA-funded Yemen Emergency Electricity Access Project. ESMAP-funded...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 169206 Date du document: 1 mars 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Assessing and Mapping Renewable Energy Resources : Second Edition (anglais)
Understanding the location and potential of renewable energy resources is a crucial pre-requisite to their utilization, and to scaling up clean and secure sources of electricity generation such as biomass...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 107219 Date du document: 1 décembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knight,Oliver
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Increasing Taxes on Tobacco in Low and Middle-Income Countries : Hurting or Saving the Poor? (anglais)
Policy makers hesitate to increase tobacco taxes over concerns about taxes being regressive and potentially increasing poverty and inequality. This note summarizes a set of studies of the effects of raising...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 151248 Date du document: 1 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Gonzalez Icaza, María Fernanda
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How Do Cultural Differences Affect Trade Reciprocity between Developed and Developing Countries? (anglais)
Cultural distance in this Brief refers to the gap between development narratives promoted from the developed world—from experts, policymakers, and international organizations—versus political-economy practices...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 142846 Date du document: 1 octobre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Singh,J.P.
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Does Automation in Rich Countries Hurt Developing Ones? : Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico (anglais)
Following a couple of decades of offshoring, the fear today is of reshoring. Using administrative data on Mexican exports by municipality, sector and destination from 2004 to 2014, this paper investigates...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 135294 Date du document: 1 janvier 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Artuc,Erhan,Christiaensen,Luc,Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge
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The impact of strengthening agricultural extension services : evidence from Ethiopia (anglais)
Extension services have been implemented on a large scale in developing countries for decades. However, there is little evidence on their impact on the productivity and welfare of farmers. Our study aims...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 125802 Date du document: 1 avril 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Molina,Ezequiel,Vaillant,Julia
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Sustainable infrastructure financing for small towns in China : approaches to attract long-term capital for small-scale infrastructure projects (anglais)
China has experienced rapid urbanization in the past three decades, which has successfully brought unparalleled economic growth, employment creation and improvement in living standards. This paper is focused...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 121427 Date du document: 1 novembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Campanaro,Alessandra,Reja,Binyam
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Mobilizing private climate finance - Green bonds and beyond (anglais)
The international market for green bonds and securities that raise capital for specific climate or environmental sustainability purposes has experienced tremendous growth and could reach an annual market...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 110881 Date du document: 1 décembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rosembuj,Flavia,Bottio,Sebastiano
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Lao People's Democratic Republic Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project : twenty-fifth report of the international environmental and social panel of experts (anglais)
This report responds to a request from the Government of Lao PDR (GoL) to comment on an Action Plan (AP) to close the Resettlement Implementation Period (RIP) as defined in the Concession Agreement for...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 108522 Date du document: 1 septembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mcdowell,David K.,Mann,Elizabeth,Talbot,Lee M.
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Mr. Wolfensohn Arrives at the Bank (anglais)
June 1, 2003, marked the eighth anniversary of the arrival of James D. Wolfensohn to assume his duties as President of the World Bank Group. Anniversaries are a good time to look back and see from where...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104649 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Mobility for all : getting the right urban indicator - shifting from the proximity of transport tothe accessibility of opportunities (anglais)
Most urban transport projects have focused on improving the ability of citizens to move freely and swiftly about the city. Typically, that ability has been measured by the share of the population living...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 102768 Date du document: 1 novembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Peralta-Quirós, Tatiana
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Missing girls in the South Caucasus countries : trends, possible causes, and policy options (anglais)
Sex ratios at birth rose sharply in the South Caucasus countries after 1991, but recent data indicate that this trend is turning. What caused this rise, and what can be done to accelerate its normalization?...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125541 Date du document: 1 avril 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das Gupta,Monica
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Public-private partnerships in prison construction and management (anglais)
Over recent years lower income countries have shown increasing interest in the potential benefits of public private partnerships in the prison field. This paper opens with a brief survey of the history...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 83347 Date du document: 1 décembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Richards,Rob Allen,English,Paul B.
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Why is voluntary financial education so unpopular? : Evidence from Mexico (anglais)
The global economic crisis, microfinance over indebtedness debate, and increasing number of individuals in developing countries using credit cards for the first time have all led to financial literacy...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 83945 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Lara Ibarra,Gabriel,Mckenzie,David J.
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The impact of universal coverage schemes in the developing world : a review of the existing evidence (anglais)
The document is organized as follows. Chapter two provides an introduction to the conceptual framework guiding this study. It is organized in three sections. First, it discusses the concept of universal...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 75326 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Alfonso,Eduardo Andres,Diaz Cuervo,Beatriz Yadira,Giedion,Ursula
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China - Wind reinsurance facility (anglais)
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) worked together with Marsh in assessing the feasibility of a reinsurance facility for large and medium scale wind farms in China. Although wind energy insurance...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76153 Date du document: 1 août 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Philippines - Renovating urban services and housing for the poor Urban Partnerships for Sustainable Upliftment (UPSURGE) Project (anglais)
The Republic of the Philippines is an archipelago in South-East Asia with more than 7,000 islands. The Philippines has an average population of 101,833,938 (2011 Index Mundi) and the numbers keep on growing...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 125742 Date du document: 1 juillet 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed