Documents et rapports
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Implications of Heightened Global Uncertainty for the East Asia and Pacific Region (anglais)
Macroeconomic, financial, and policy-related uncertainty have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic globally and in individual developing economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. Uncertainty...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 192419 Date du document: 4 juillet 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jongrim Ha,Ergys Islamaj,Aaditya Mattoo
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How a Program to Increase Exporting May Have Actually Reduced Exports (anglais)
Colombia’s exports are highly concentrated in a few commodities such as petroleum, coal, coffee, and gold. A key policy goal is to diversify and expand this export base. However, one key barrier to being...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 179391 Date du document: 1 janvier 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Iacovone,Leonardo,Meager,Rachael,Mckenzie,David J.
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Revisiting Labor Market Regulations in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)
Labor regulations are important determinants of resource allocation, productivity, and labor market outcomes. They can protect workers’ rights, enhance job security, and improve working conditions. However...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 168118 Date du document: 24 janvier 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hatayama,Maho
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Institutional Investing : A New Investor Forum and Growing Interest in Sustainable Emerging Markets Investments (anglais)
Achieving the sustainable development goals is estimated to require additional financing on the order of 2.6 trillion dollars in emerging markets and low-income countries in 2030. A substantial increase...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 143353 Date du document: 1 février 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Klimenko,Svetlana V.,Bouye,Eric,Lauridsen,Morten Lykke
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Why did poverty decline in India? : a nonparametric decomposition exercise (anglais)
This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 and 2012. The analysis employs a nonparametric decomposition method that measures the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125506 Date du document: 1 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Balcázar,Carlos Felipe,Desai,Sonal,Murgai,Rinku,Narayan,Ambar
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Robert S. McNamara, World Bank President : April 1, 1968 – June 30, 1981 (anglais)
Robert S. McNamara became World Bank President on April 1, 1968 and served two full five-year terms and a partial term, leaving on June 30, 1981. When McNamara came to the World Bank, it was lending about...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104700 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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An assessment of skills in the formal sector labor market in Bangladesh : a technical report on the enterprise-based skills survey 2012 (anglais)
Education and skill development have played a crucial role in economic growth, poverty reduction and social transformation in Bangladesh, particularly the inclusion of women in the labor force in the last...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 81941 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nomura,Shinsaku,Hong,Seo Yeon,Nordman,Christophe Jalil,Sarr,Leopold Remi,Vawda,Ayesha Y.
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Croatia - A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth : celebrating 40 years of progress : Croatia - A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (russe)
Croatia`s current economic challenges include sluggish growth, excessive public spending, high unemployment, and a deteriorating external environment. Croatian economy was making a fragile recovery and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76218 Date du document: 1 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Madzarevic-Sujster,Sanja
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Croatia - A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth : celebrating 40 years of progress : celebrating 40 years of progress (anglais)
Croatia`s current economic challenges include sluggish growth, excessive public spending, high unemployment, and a deteriorating external environment. Croatian economy was making a fragile recovery and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76218 Date du document: 1 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Madzarevic-Sujster,Sanja
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Incentivizing calculated risk-taking :evidence from an experiment with commercial bank loan officers (anglais)
This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and lending decisions. The paper first shows that, while high-powered...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6146 Date du document: 1 juillet 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cole,Shawn Allen,Kanz,Martin,Klapper,Leora
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Filling the data gap on gender in rural Kenya (anglais)
Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in Kenya and its performance greatly affects the poor. In addition to its importance as a source of food and income, the sector directly accounts for 24...
Numéro du rapport: 69532 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Poverty in MENA : advances and challenges (anglais)
On February 29, 2012, the World Bank released an updated dataset of internationally comparable poverty estimates. Poverty is assessed against two internationally comparable poverty lines: $1.25 and $2...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 68272 Date du document: 1 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Serajuddin,Umar,Vishwanath,Tara
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GEF annual country portfolio evaluation report 2011 (anglais)
Annual country portfolio evaluation report 2011 is the fourth in the series. It introduces and describes a new multiannual cycle of country-level evaluations for the Global Environment Facility (GEF-5)...
Type de document: Rapport annuel Numéro du rapport: 68262 Date du document: 31 décembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carugi,Carlo
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Special economic zones : what have we learned? (anglais)
It has been more than 50 years since the establishment of the first modern special economic zones (SEZs). During this time, SEZs have been credited with underpinning the dramatic export-oriented growth...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 64430 Date du document: 1 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Farole,Thomas
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Protecting branchless banking consumers : policy objectives and regulatory options (arabe)
In ever larger numbers, poor people in developing and emerging market countries are accessing financial services offered by formal providers outside of traditional bank branches. Transformational branchless...
Numéro du rapport: 70475 Date du document: 1 octobre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dias,Denise Leite,Mckee,Katharine
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Protecting branchless banking consumers : policy objectives and regulatory options : Protéger les consommateurs de services de banque à distance : objectifs stratégiques et options réglementaires (français)
In ever larger numbers, poor people in developing and emerging market countries are accessing financial services offered by formal providers outside of traditional bank branches. Transformational branchless...
Numéro du rapport: 70475 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dias,Denise Leite,Mckee,Katharine
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Protecting branchless banking consumers : policy objectives and regulatory options (chinois)
In ever larger numbers, poor people in developing and emerging market countries are accessing financial services offered by formal providers outside of traditional bank branches. Transformational branchless...
Numéro du rapport: 70475 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dias,Denise Leite,Mckee,Katharine
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Protecting branchless banking consumers : policy objectives and regulatory options : Protección de los consumidores de la banca sin sucursales : objetivos de políticas y opciones de reglamentación (espagnol)
In ever larger numbers, poor people in developing and emerging market countries are accessing financial services offered by formal providers outside of traditional bank branches. Transformational branchless...
Numéro du rapport: 70475 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dias,Denise Leite,Mckee,Katharine
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Protecting branchless banking consumers : policy objectives and regulatory options (anglais)
In ever larger numbers, poor people in developing and emerging market countries are accessing financial services offered by formal providers outside of traditional bank branches. Transformational branchless...
Numéro du rapport: 70475 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dias,Denise Leite,Mckee,Katharine
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Climate change, mitigation, and developing country growth (anglais)
This paper deals with global mitigation strategy. More specifically the main purpose is to address the question of whether growth in the developing world is consistent with long?run climate change objectives...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 57763 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Spence,Andrew Michael