Documents et rapports
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The Pandemic’s Extensive Reform Agenda : How Can the Development Community Contribute? (anglais)
The COVID-19 crisis requires policy reforms on many fronts, from debt sustainability to climate-smart recovery. This Research & Policy brief draws on theory and empirical evidence to explore the opportunities...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 168657 Date du document: 15 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Smets,Lodewijk,Record,Richard James Lowden
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Just Coal Transition in Western Macedonia, Greece - Insights from the Labor Market (anglais)
This report analyzes the consequences for the labor force of Western Macedonia’s (Greece) decarbonization as part of Europe’s new Green Deal. Already, the region records the highest unemployment rate of...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 154104 Date du document: 31 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen,Luc,Ferré,Céline
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Shortening Supply Chains for Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota (anglais)
The latest note examines the impact of a social enterprise's attempts to shorten the supply chain between farmers and small retail stores in Bogota, an idea that was one of the winners of the SME ideas...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 140547 Date du document: 1 août 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Iacovone,Leonardo,Mckenzie,David J.
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Modelo Peru : A mobile money platform offering interoperability towards financial inclusion (anglais)
Like most emerging markets, Peru suffers from low banking penetration and faces challengesto providing financial services. Beginning in 2015, a strategy called Modelo Peru emerged as acollaboration between...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 128786 Date du document: 1 mai 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Del Carpio Ponce,Paola Elvira
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OBA in infrastructure : the experience so far (anglais)
Increasing access to basic infrastructure services is critical to reducing poverty and enabling poor and marginalized people to participate in and benefit from economic development. Too often, however...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 116228 Date du document: 1 juin 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Administrative Circular, The President’s Food Conservation Program, October 13, 1947 (anglais)
On October 5 1947, U.S President Harry S. Truman announced the food conservation program in a radio and television address. This program was proposed by the Citizens Food Committee and was supported by...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104687 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Tenure security premium in informal housing markets : a spatial hedonic analysis (anglais)
This paper estimates slum residents' willingness to pay for formalized land tenure in Pune, India. In so doing, it offers evidence that the legal assurance of slum residents' occupancy of their lands could...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125440 Date du document: 1 décembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nakamura,Shohei
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Addressing the gender gap in Europe and Central Asia (anglais)
The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region's relative advantage in gender equality compared to other regions eroded in the 1999-2009 period. As a result, the region now looks more similar to the rest of...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 71408 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sattar,Sarosh
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Expanding access and enhancing the economic benefits of education in the Maldives : challenges and prospects (anglais)
Human capital is the central determinant of economic well-being and social advancement in the modern global economy. The key characteristic that distinguishes between advanced economies, middle-income...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 68615 Date du document: 1 mai 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aturupane,Harsha,Shojo,Mari
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Are Jordan and Tunisia's exports becoming more technologically sophisticated? Analysis using highly disaggregated export databases (anglais)
There is a growing consensus that what you export matters for growth (see for instance, Haussman and al. 2007 and Krishna and Maloney (2011)). This paper examines whether and to what extent Jordan and...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 67248 Date du document: 1 février 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Diop,Ndiame,Ghali,Sofiane
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Infrastructure and employment creation in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)
The report estimates Middle East and North Africa's (MENA's) infrastructure investment and maintenance needs through 2020 at 106 billion dollars per year or 6.9 percent of the annual regional gross domestic...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 67730 Date du document: 1 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Freund,Caroline,Ianchovichina,Elena
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Private activity in telecommunications recovered in 2010 but remained below pre-financial crisis levels (anglais)
In 2010, eight new telecom projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in seven low and middle income countries. These projects involved investment commitments of US$4.2...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 66325 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jett,Alexander Nicholas
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Strengthening public financial management in post-conflict countries (anglais)
Understanding how to rebuild resilient states in post-conflict countries is an urgent priority for the international community. A new cross-country study of public financial management reforms in post-conflict...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 60817 Date du document: 1 avril 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fritz,Verena Maria,Hedger, Edward,Fialho Lopes,Ana Paula
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Rising global interest in farmland and the importance of responsible agricultural investment (anglais)
While the issue has been hotly debated, this debate has suffered from two main weaknesses. On the one hand, there has been a dearth of rigorous empirical analysis of what is happening on the ground. On...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 56583 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Private sector participation in urban rail : getting the structure right (anglais)
There is growing interest in using rail transit, trams, metros, light rail, to solve urban transportation problems, particularly road congestion and air pollution. In developing urban rail projects, a...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 56734 Date du document: 1 avril 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Menzies,Iain,Mandri-Perrott,Xavier Cledan
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Microfinance managers consider online funding : is it finance, marketing, or something else entirely? : Los gerentes microfinancieros evaluan el financiamiento en linea : ¿Se trata de finanzas, comercializacion, o algo completamente diferente? (espagnol)
Online platforms are changing the way we engage with the world. Face book links, eBay auctions, ePal chats, even second life avatars-these are all online platforms that connect people, ideas, products...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 49145 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Burand,Deborah Kay
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Microfinance managers consider online funding : is it finance, marketing, or something else entirely? : Perspectives de financement en ligne pour les IMF : finance, marketing, ou instrument totalement inedit? (français)
Online platforms are changing the way we engage with the world. Face book links, eBay auctions, ePal chats, even second life avatars-these are all online platforms that connect people, ideas, products...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 49145 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Burand,Deborah Kay
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Microfinance managers consider online funding : is it finance, marketing, or something else entirely? (arabe)
Online platforms are changing the way we engage with the world. Face book links, eBay auctions, ePal chats, even second life avatars-these are all online platforms that connect people, ideas, products...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 49145 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Burand,Deborah Kay
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Microfinance managers consider online funding : is it finance, marketing, or something else entirely? (anglais)
Online platforms are changing the way we engage with the world. Face book links, eBay auctions, ePal chats, even second life avatars-these are all online platforms that connect people, ideas, products...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 49145 Date du document: 1 avril 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Burand,Deborah Kay
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Africa's growth turnaround : from fewer mistakes to sustained growth (anglais)
After stagnating for much of its postcolonial history, economic performance in Sub?Saharan Africa has markedly improved. Since 1995, average economic growth has been close to 5 percent per year. Has Africa...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 57753 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Page,John