Documents et rapports
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Educated Workers and Managers in the EU-27 (anglais)
This Brief highlights issues related to the education and skill level of workers and top managers in firms in 27 European Union countries (the EU-27), using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES). The...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 197382 Date du document: 22 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mohammad Amin
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Measuring Poverty in Sao Tome and Príncipe : Methodology and Recent Estimates (portugais)
The measurement of poverty is essential for the Government of Sao Tome and Príncipe (STP) to follow its national and international commitments. Given the ambiguity of the definition of poverty, several...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 166837 Date du document: 23 mars 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Costa,Rita D.
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Measuring Poverty in Sao Tome and Príncipe : Methodology and Recent Estimates (anglais)
The measurement of poverty is essential for the Government of Sao Tome and Príncipe (STP) to follow its national and international commitments. Given the ambiguity of the definition of poverty, several...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 166837 Date du document: 23 mars 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Costa,Rita D.
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Five Ways that COVID-19 Diagnostics Can Save Lives : Prioritizing Uses of Tests to Maximize Cost-Effectiveness (anglais)
Supplies of diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus), are still limited in many countries, and there is uncertainty about how to allocate the scarce supply across alternative...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 156888 Date du document: 23 février 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reed,Tristan,Waites,William,Manheim,David,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Vallini,Chiara,Gatti,Roberta V.,Hallett,Timothy B.
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Russia Economic Report : Recession and Growth Under the Shadow of a Pandemic (anglais)
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has triggered a deep global economic recession. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) shock is the most adverse peacetime shock to the global economy in a century. The Russian...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 150982 Date du document: 1 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sanghi,Apurva,Emelyanova,Olga
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Russia Economic Report : Recession and Growth Under the Shadow of a Pandemic : Russia : Recession and Growth Under the Shadow of a Pandemic (russe)
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has triggered a deep global economic recession. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) shock is the most adverse peacetime shock to the global economy in a century. The Russian...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 150982 Date du document: 1 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sanghi,Apurva,Emelyanova,Olga
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Value Chain Development for Jobs in Lagging Regions : Let's Work Program in Tunisia : Overview of the Approach, Impact, and Findings (anglais)
This report provides an overview of a World Bank activity to support structural change for competitiveness and employment opportunities in Tunisia's lagging regions based on value chain and cluster analysis...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 149983 Date du document: 1 janvier 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Weber,Michael,Salhab,Jade
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Governance for SME Sustainability and Growth (anglais)
As small and medium enterprises (SMEs) evolve from start-up to maturity, they need to grow into governance. This paper introduces the International Finance Corporation (IFC) governance methodology for...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 141427 Date du document: 1 janvier 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ryabota,Vladislava,Volynets,Alexey K.,Kravatzky,Axel,Carrington,Helen
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The power of standardization : testing information disclosure in a multi-country study (anglais)
Governments and academics have focused on financial education as a tool to improve financial wellbeing, but the efficacy of these initiatives is mixed. As an alternative to educating financial consumers...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 120287 Date du document: 1 octobre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gine,Xavier,Martinez,Cristina,Mazer,Rafael Keenan
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Blockchain in financial services in emerging markets part one : current trends (anglais)
Financial institutions around the world find themselves continually barraged by external innovations they are often unable to absorb and internalize. The emergence of innovative digital financial technologies...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 120261 Date du document: 1 août 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Niforos, Marina
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World Bank Institute Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (anglais)
March 2005 marks the 50th anniversary of the World Bank Institute (WBI), formerly known as the Economic Development Institute (EDI). On March 11, 1955 the World Bank announced the establishment of an Economic...
Numéro du rapport: 104676 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Are public libraries improving quality of education? : When the public good provision is not enough (anglais)
This paper quantifies the contributions to poverty reduction observed in Sri Lanka between 2002 and 2012 to 2013. The methods adopted for the analysis gen This paper analyzes the relation between public...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125421 Date du document: 1 septembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rodrguez-Lesmes,Paul,Trujillo,Jose Daniel,Valderrama,Daniel
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Benefits of the ECOWAS CET and EPA will outweigh costs in Nigeria, but competitiveness is the real issue (anglais)
This note analyzes the benefits of ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET) and Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will outweigh costs in Nigeria, but competitiveness is the real issue. After decade-long...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 93642 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Coste,Antoine,Von Uexkull,Jan Erik
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Independent verification in results-based financing (anglais)
With pressure for greater accountability and value for money in public budgets, widening the use of results-based financing (RBF) and setting up adequate independent mechanisms to verify results is becoming...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 72605 Date du document: 1 mai 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Illouz,Esther,Tineo,Luis
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A new data tool to BOOST public spending efficiency : Un nou instrument pentru date, BOOST, util pentru eficientizarea cheltuielilor publice (Roumain)
The BOOST data tool makes it easy to analyze how the allocation and use of public expenditure can be made more efficient. BOOST makes detailed public spending data, including data on sub-national spending...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 67685 Date du document: 1 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kheyfets,Igor,Mastruzzi,Massimo,Merotto,Dino Leonardo,Sondergaard,Lars M.
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A new data tool to BOOST public spending efficiency (anglais)
The BOOST data tool makes it easy to analyze how the allocation and use of public expenditure can be made more efficient. BOOST makes detailed public spending data, including data on sub-national spending...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 67685 Date du document: 1 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kheyfets,Igor,Mastruzzi,Massimo,Merotto,Dino Leonardo,Sondergaard,Lars M.
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SME innovators and gazelles in MENA : educate, train, certify, compete! (anglais)
The Middle East North Arica (MENA) region faces no greater challenge than employment generation. An expanding literature on 'gazelles' suggests that a small percentage of fast-growing small and medium...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 64502 Date du document: 1 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Stone,Andrew H. W.,Badawy,Lina Tarek Mohamed
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Strengthening mathematics education in Sri Lanka (anglais)
A well-informed and knowledgeable community is of vital importance for the economic and social development of a modem society. The knowledge and skills required for present day activities are much more...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 64526 Date du document: 1 juillet 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aturupane,Harsha,Dissanayake,Visaka Udeni Karalliadde,Jayewardene,Delorine Romaine,Shojo,Mari,Sonnadara,Don Upul Jayasiri
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Currency wars yesterday and today (anglais)
An energetic debate on the danger of a global currency war has flared up in recent months, stoked by a renewed move to 'quantitative easing' in the United States, resurgent capital flows to developing...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 58315 Date du document: 1 décembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brahmbhatt,Milan,Canuto,Otaviano,Ghosh,Swati R.
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Making a large irrigation scheme work : a case study from Mali (anglais)
Located in the heart of Mali, the Office du Niger (ON) is one of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The French, who began the scheme in 1932, planned on developing about 1,000,000...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 55273 Date du document: 1 avril 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed