Documents et rapports
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Training Microenterprise Owners by Zoom (anglais)
Digital technology offers the potential to lower the costs of delivering business training, and to enable it to be scaled across a wide geographic area. But there are questions about how feasible such...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 185033 Date du document: 28 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Davies,Elwyn Adriaan Robin,Deffebach,Peter William,Iacovone,Leonardo,Mckenzie,David J.
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Rural Employment in Africa : Trends and Challenges (anglais)
Africa’s rural population continues to expand rapidly and labor productivity in agriculture and many rural off farm activities remains low. This paper uses the lens of a dual economy and the associated...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 168926 Date du document: 23 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen,Luc,Maertens,Miet
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Blended Concessional Finance : Governance Matters for Impact (anglais)
Blended concessional finance, the combination of concessional funds with other types of finance on commercial terms, has great potential to mobilize capital and accelerate high-impact private sector investments...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 143355 Date du document: 1 mars 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sierra-Escalante,Kruskaia,Karlin,Arthur S.,Lauridsen,Morten Lykke
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Is random forest a superior methodology for predicting poverty? : an empirical assessment (anglais)
Random forest is in many fields of research a common method for data driven predictions. Within economics and prediction of poverty, random forest is rarely used. Comparing out-of-sample predictions in...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125655 Date du document: 1 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pave Sohnesen,Thomas,Stender,Niels
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Seventh Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the WBG and IMF, Mexico City, Sept. 1952 (anglais)
The Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group meet once a year in the fall to discuss the work of their respective institutions. Following the established tradition...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104702 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Managing the balancing act : energy subsidies and energy affordability (anglais)
Many Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries are faced with a difficult balancing act of cutting subsidies to the energy sector while protecting affordability for consumers. This study assesses at the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 83946 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ruggeri Laderchi,Caterina,Olivier,Anne,Trimble,Christopher Philip
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Managing the balancing act : energy subsidies and energy affordability (russe)
Many Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries are faced with a difficult balancing act of cutting subsidies to the energy sector while protecting affordability for consumers. This study assesses at the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 83946 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ruggeri Laderchi,Caterina,Olivier,Anne,Trimble,Christopher Philip
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Promoting youth opportunities and participation in Morocco (anglais)
This quick note is based on the report of the same name which was prepared just prior to the Arab Spring. The study anticipates the demands for social and economic inclusion articulated by Moroccan young...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 73001 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: La Cava,Gloria,Ivanic,Maros,Jillson,Irene Anne,Morgandi,Matteo,Serajuddin,Umar,Vishwanath,Tara
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Trade finance during the 2008-9 trade collapse : key takeaways (anglais)
Trade finance matters for trade, and when financial markets and world trade collapsed three years ago, a shortage in trade finance was hailed as a possible culprit. Because of the potential for global...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 64687 Date du document: 1 septembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chauffour,Jean-Pierre Christophe,Malouche,Mariem
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Branchless Banking 2010 : who’s served? at what price? what’s next? : La banca sin sucursales en 2010 : ¿a quién presta servicios? ¿a qué precio? ¿Hacia dónde se dirige? (espagnol)
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 82620 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Pickens,Mark
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Branchless Banking 2010 : who’s served? at what price? what’s next? : Banque à distance 2010 : pour qui? à quel prix? quelles perspectives? (français)
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 82620 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Pickens,Mark
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Branchless Banking 2010 : who’s served? at what price? what’s next? (chinois)
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 82620 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Pickens,Mark
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Branchless Banking 2010 : who’s served? at what price? what’s next? (anglais)
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 82620 Date du document: 1 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Pickens,Mark
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Macro crises and targeting transfers to the poor (anglais)
A central question for policy makers concerned with helping the poor through a macro crisis is how to target scarcer resources at a time of greater need. Technical arguments suggest that finer targeting...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 57765 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kanbur,Ravi
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Simulating the effects of supply and demand elasticities on political-economic equilibrium (anglais)
Wallace's (1962) pioneering study brought to agricultural economics a focus on the role of supply and demand elasticity's in determining the efficiency with which agricultural policy transfers income among...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55965 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bullock,David Streed
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Consumer participation in Infrastructure regulation - evidence from the East Asia and Pacific Region (anglais)
Consumer Participation in Infrastructure Regulation draws on results of a survey questionnaire conducted among 45 infrastructure regulators in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. It finds that EAP...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 34478 Date du document: 1 novembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Muzzini,Elisa
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Whither Latin American capital markets? (anglais)
"Whither Latin American Capital Markets?" a study published by the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank in June 2004, analyzes the status and prospects for capital market development in...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33198 Date du document: 1 avril 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De La Torre,Augusto,Schmukler,Sergio L.
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Whither Latin American capital markets? : Hacia donde van los mercados de capital de America Latina? (espagnol)
"Whither Latin American Capital Markets?" a study published by the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank in June 2004, analyzes the status and prospects for capital market development in...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33198 Date du document: 1 avril 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De La Torre,Augusto,Schmukler,Sergio L.
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How will we know millennium development results when we see them? Building a results-based monitoring and evaluation system to give us the answer (anglais)
Results based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a powerful public management tool to help policy makers track progress and demonstrate the outcomes and impacts of a given policy, program, or project...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 31268 Date du document: 1 mai 2004 Auteur: Rist, Ray C.,White,Elizabeth M.,Kusek,Jody Zall
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Improving tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa: things that work (anglais)
This document reports on a regional training conference entitled Improving Tertiary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Things That Work! Which was held in Accra, Ghana on September 23-25, 2003 in the effort...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 29713 Date du document: 1 avril 2004 Auteur: Bollag,Burton S.