Documents et rapports
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Resource Misallocation and Distortions : Some Evidence from East Asia (anglais)
Developing East Asia has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past few decades thanks to a combination of policies that fostered outward-oriented and labor-intensive growth, investments in basic...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 177542 Date du document: 3 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Nicola,Francesca
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Empirical Evidence on Firm Growth and Jobs in Developing Countries (anglais)
Economic growth does not contribute enough to job creation. As shown in Merotto, weber and Aterido (2018), a bit more than half of growth episodes contributed to reducing unemployment. A significant part...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 155244 Date du document: 18 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Buba,Johanne,Franco Gonzalez,Alvaro,Rizvi,Anam
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How Should Business Training be Priced? : A Demand Experiment in Jamaica (anglais)
This note examines how sensitive the demand for business training is to price, and whether charging a higher price causes firm owners to exert more effort in training.
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 153375 Date du document: 28 septembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maffioli,Alessandro,Mckenzie,David J.,Ubfal,Diego Javier
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Blockchain Governance and Regulation as an Enabler for Market Creation in Emerging Markets (anglais)
Developing a proper governance and regulatory framework for blockchain-based applications will be essential to providing market participants the stability they need to fully engage with the technology...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 131343 Date du document: 1 septembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Niforos,Marina
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World Bank’s First Development Loans to Chile, 1948 (anglais)
Reconstruction was the World Bank’s main mission until 1948. On May 9, 1947, an agreement was signed granting a reconstruction loan to France in the amount of 250 million dollars. In August 1947 there...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104690 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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What are the impacts of Syrian refugees on host community welfare in Turkey? : a subnational poverty analysis (anglais)
In recent years, Turkey has been host to more than two million Syrians seeking refuge. Initially concentrated in the southeastern regions, these refugees now reside throughout the country. There are many...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125498 Date du document: 7 décembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De,Yang,Judy,Inan,Osman Kaan
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International comparative study : engineering education in India (anglais)
The central and state governments of India have been pursuing several reforms in the higher education sector. In engineering education, the government has already embarked on several reforms within the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 78182 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Saeki,Hiroshi,Imaizumi,Saori
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A new jobs data tool : introducing BuDDy - a business diagnostics and dynamics tool (russe)
The Business Diagnostics and Dynamics Tool (BuDDy) tool uses formal sector business data that governments already collect to analyze patterns and trends in employment and diagnose constraints to growth...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76211 Date du document: 1 octobre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Boccardo,Jessica,Merotto,Dino Leonardo
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A new jobs data tool : introducing BuDDy - a business diagnostics and dynamics tool (anglais)
The Business Diagnostics and Dynamics Tool (BuDDy) tool uses formal sector business data that governments already collect to analyze patterns and trends in employment and diagnose constraints to growth...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76211 Date du document: 1 octobre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Boccardo,Jessica,Merotto,Dino Leonardo
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Are Jordan and Tunisia's exports becoming more technologically sophisticated? And why it matters (anglais)
The last decade has witnessed two interesting features in international trade. First, high-tech products have become the fastest growing segment of international trade. Second, developing countries are...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 67734 Date du document: 1 février 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Diop,Ndiame,Ghali,Sofiane
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Making the grade : smallholder farmers, emerging standards, and development assistance programs in Africa (anglais)
Agro-food standards, including those relating to product quality, food safety, and the environmental and social impacts of production, have become the focus of intense controversy among those concerned...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 64931 Date du document: 1 octobre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Private activity in infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia remained stable in 2010 (anglais)
In 2010, 23 infrastructure projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closing in five low- and middle-income countries in Europe and Central Asia, involving investment commitments...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 66328 Date du document: 31 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Parulekar,Koustubh
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Rebalancing, growth, and development in a multipolar global economy (anglais)
Reduction of large and persistent external imbalances is currently a key focus of G-20 discussions. The paper argues that in a progressively multipolar world economy, the goals of global rebalancing, growth...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 61937 Date du document: 1 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Qureshi,Mohammad Zia Masoom
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Scenarios for branchless banking in 2020 (anglais)
The growing use of branchless banking channels over the coming years is inevitable in most countries. But it's far less certain whether large numbers of the unbanked poor will use these alternative channels...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 56623 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pickens,Mark,Porteous,David John,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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Scenarios for branchless banking in 2020 (arabe)
The growing use of branchless banking channels over the coming years is inevitable in most countries. But it's far less certain whether large numbers of the unbanked poor will use these alternative channels...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 56623 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pickens,Mark,Porteous,David John,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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From growth theory to policy design (anglais)
This paper focuses on how growth theory can guide growth policy design. It first argues that policy matters for growth, in particular when policy variables are interacted with country?specific variables...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 57756 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aghion,Philippe,Durlauf,Steven
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Annual estimates of distortions to agricultural incentives in europe's transition economies (anglais)
This working paper summarizes annual estimates of covered product Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRAs), for each of the focus economies of Europe's transition economies, their key distortion indicators defined...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 56115 Date du document: 1 août 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Valenzuela,Ernesto,Kurzweil,Marianne,Croser,Johanna Louise,Nelgen,Signe,Anderson,Kym
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Health system innovations in Central America: lessons and impact of new approaches : Innovaciones en el sistema de salud de America Central: lecciones e impactos de nuevos enfoques (espagnol)
Health Systems Innovations in Central America reports on how these experiences fared -- a hospital in Panama, a nutrition program in Honduras, primary care extension in Guatemala, a subset of hospitals...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 33004 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: La Forgia, Gerard M. [editor]
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Health system innovations in Central America: lessons and impact of new approaches (anglais)
Health Systems Innovations in Central America reports on how these experiences fared -- a hospital in Panama, a nutrition program in Honduras, primary care extension in Guatemala, a subset of hospitals...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 33004 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: La Forgia, Gerard M. [editor]
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Nicaragua - responding to the needs of farmers using agricultural technology, knowledge and innovation systems (anglais)
The Nicaraguan agricultural and livestock sector experienced wide policy shifts over the last two decades. State intervention during the Sandinista period (1979--1990) was reversed by subsequent governments...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 31118 Date du document: 1 novembre 2004 Auteur: Piccioni,Norman Bentley,Santucci,Fabio Maria