Documents et rapports
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The Road Not Taken? : Responding to the Energy Price Shock in East Asia (anglais)
Several countries in East Asia have increased fossil fuel subsidies to keep consumer prices lower than currently high international prices. These subsidies are discouraging the shift in consumption away...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 177801 Date du document: 16 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pollitt,Hector Ben,Islamaj,Ergys,Kitchlu,Rahul,Le,Duong Trung,Mattoo,Aaditya
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The Early Labor Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Developing Countries : Evidence from High-frequency Phone Surveys (anglais)
The economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sharply reduced mobility and economic activity, disrupting the lives of people around the globe. This brief presents estimates on the crisis’...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 156058 Date du document: 1 janvier 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Khamis,Melanie,Prinz,Daniel,Newhouse,David Locke,Palacios-Lopez,Amparo,Pape,Utz Johann,Weber,Michael
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Using the Market to Hire Skills as an Alternative to Business Training (anglais)
This note reports on a new approach to improving business practices in growing firms - using the market to insource or outsource skills instead of training the entrepreneur.
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 155245 Date du document: 1 décembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Stephen J.,Mckenzie,David J.
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Competition Works : Driving Microfinance Institutions to Reach Lower-Income People and the Unbanked in Peru (anglais)
Competition from commercial banks is prompting microfinance institutions in urban areas ofPeru and other Latin American nations to provide more service to lower-income groups. Wherehigher-income clients...
Numéro du rapport: 133878 Date du document: 26 octobre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rebolledo Dellepiane,Miguel Angel,Paniagua,Gloria
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Declining wages for college-educated workers in Mexico : are younger or older cohorts hurt the most? (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: 125499 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Campos-Vazquez,Raymundo M.,Lopez-Calva,Luis-Felipe,Lustig,Nora C
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Dissemination Note on the Social Assessment for India Tuberculosis Control Project, 1997 (anglais)
In observance of the World Tuberculosis (TB)Day on March 24, 2007 the World Bank GroupArchives features the Dissemination Note“Social Assessment Influences Design of theIndia TB Control Project” issued...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104691 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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School-based education improvement initiatives : the experience and options for Sri Lanka (anglais)
Most developing countries following independence opted for strong central control and direction of the education system, partly because of limited resources and the need to plan carefully and partly because...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 77759 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Aturupane,Harsha,Kellaghan,Thomas,Shojo,Mari
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Active labor market programs : how, why, when, and to what extent are they effective? (russe)
Active labor market programs (ALMPs) aim to keep workers employed, bring them into employment, increase their productivity and earnings, and improve the functioning of labor markets. ALMPs to retain employment...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76212 Date du document: 1 décembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brown,Alessio Julian Gerard,Koettl-Brodmann,Johannes
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Active labor market programs : how, why, when, and to what extent are they effective? (anglais)
Active labor market programs (ALMPs) aim to keep workers employed, bring them into employment, increase their productivity and earnings, and improve the functioning of labor markets. ALMPs to retain employment...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76212 Date du document: 1 décembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brown,Alessio Julian Gerard,Koettl-Brodmann,Johannes
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From degraded pasturelands to climate-smart livestock production systems in Northwest Cameroon (anglais)
The Tugi Silvopastoral Project (TUSIP) is a climate-smart livestock and pasture management pilot program that was introduced in the village of Tugi in the Gutah Hills of the Northwest Region (NWR) of Cameroon...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 68000 Date du document: 1 février 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Agwe,Jonathan N.,Azah, Chick Herman,Ibrahim,Muhammad Akbar,Nji,Ajaga,Pezo Quevedo,Danilo Alfredo
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Morocco moves forward on an arduous path reforming its doing business indicators (anglais)
The 2012 Doing Business (DB) Report lauds Morocco as the country that has achieved the biggest improvement in its ranking in 2011. The acknowledgment of the country's performance reflects a spectacular...
Numéro du rapport: 67735 Date du document: 1 février 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Al-Abdulrazzaq,Ali,Hassan, Youssef Saadani,De Meneval,Philippe Jean Marie
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Private activity in Latin America declined sharply but became more dispersed in 2010 (anglais)
In 2010, 54 infrastructure projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in 11 low and middle-income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, involving investment commitments...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 66329 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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The SDR and its potential as an international reserve asset (anglais)
Since the onset of the global financial crisis, there has been an upswing of interest among some prominent policy makers and academics in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Special Drawing Right (SDR)...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 62095 Date du document: 1 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chelsky,Jeffrey Allen
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Global Environment Facility (GEF) annual country portfolio evaluation report 2010 (anglais)
This third annual country portfolio evaluation report provides a synthesis of the main conclusions and recommendations of the two country portfolio evaluations (CPEs) finalized by the Evaluation Office...
Type de document: Rapport annuel Numéro du rapport: 60582 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carugi,Carlo
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Banking the poor via G2P payments (anglais)
Governments make regular payments to at least 170 million poor people worldwide far more than the 99 million or so who have active microloans. In this focus note, the authors look at government-to-person...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 56624 Date du document: 1 décembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pickens,Mark,Porteous,David John,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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Banking the poor via G2P payments (arabe)
Governments make regular payments to at least 170 million poor people worldwide far more than the 99 million or so who have active microloans. In this focus note, the authors look at government-to-person...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 56624 Date du document: 1 décembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pickens,Mark,Porteous,David John,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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Eight reasons we are given not to worry about the U.S. deficits (anglais)
The large U.S. current account deficit over the last decade-and the corresponding surpluses in China and elsewhere-has been interpreted in two very different ways. Many mainstream economists view the phenomena...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 57757 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Frankel,Jeffrey A.
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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Europe's transition economies (anglais)
In a recent World Bank report on the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region's trade patterns, performance and policies, the priority trade policy reforms recommended reducing the mean and variance of tariffs...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 56117 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Kym,Swinnen,Johan F. M.
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Institutions, performance, and the financing of infrastructure services in the Caribbean (anglais)
This book reviews the access to services, investment needs, tariffs, and efficiency of fifteen Caribbean countries across five infrastructure sectors (telecommunications, electricity, water and sanitation...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 32927 Date du document: 1 janvier 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jha, Abhas Kumar [editor]
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Korea's experience in promoting e-business adoption among micro and small enterprises : La experiencia coreana en promover la adopcion del negocio electronico en pequenas y micro empresas (espagnol)
In Korea, around 3.1 million small enterprises (99.2 percent of the total) operate with less than 50 employees. Micro & small businesses (MSBs), however, have lagged well behind in the adoption of IT...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 31119 Date du document: 1 décembre 2004 Auteur: Yoon, Jeongwon,Hanna,James C.