Part of a three-region set of papers analyzing coal-related labor market challenges in Poland, this paper focuses on Silesia. The findings call for a more territorial-oriented approach to brokering the...
Part of a three-region set of papers analyzing coal-related labor market challenges in Poland, this paper focuses on Silesia. The findings call for a more territorial-oriented approach to brokering the...
Insurance technology, better known as Insurtech, is a rapidly growing industry that is beginning to disrupt traditional insurance provision in advanced and emerging economies alike, and is creating opportunities...
This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth...
On April 3rd, 1986, Barber Conable was selected as the seventh president of the World Bank Group, a position which he formally took over on July 1st of that year. In honor of the 25th anniversary of that...
This report supports a joint World Bank-IFC initiative to review and evaluate economic growth prospects for Khatlon oblast in order to develop a private sector-driven strategy for accelerating the region's...
The Joint Social and Economic Assessment (JSEA) has been prepared in response to a request from the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MoPIC) in Yemen, and was undertaken jointly by the...
In the first semester of 2011, twelve new water and sewerage projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in four lower- and upper-middle income countries. Additionally...
There is a consensus that jobs are vital in translating economic growth into lasting poverty reduction and social cohesion. But who creates jobs is an understudied field. This economic premise argues that...
As of December 2009, cross-border funders reported commitments to microfinance1 of US$21.3 billion, reflecting a 17 percent increase (US$3 billion) over 2008 commitments. Although this rate of increase...
As of December 2009, cross-border funders reported commitments to microfinance1 of US$21.3 billion, reflecting a 17 percent increase (US$3 billion) over 2008 commitments. Although this rate of increase...
As of December 2009, cross-border funders reported commitments to microfinance1 of US$21.3 billion, reflecting a 17 percent increase (US$3 billion) over 2008 commitments. Although this rate of increase...
This study on Latin America is based on a sample of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador, two of the poorest South American tropical...
Over the past 30 years there has been considerable research on the political economy of reform. Yet despite this, little is known about strategies for managing the politics of change-moving from a bad...
Brazil has developed a community-led, market-based approach to land reform in which poor rural laborers and farmers, either landless or with insufficient land for subsistence, form beneficiary associations...
Brazil has developed a community-led, market-based approach to land reform in which poor rural laborers and farmers, either landless or with insufficient land for subsistence, form beneficiary associations...
Renewable energy (RE) resources have been attracting growing interest in both the industrialized and the developing world in the last five to eight years. The main drivers for this interest and accelerated...
On October 3, 2004, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number seventy. It is resolved that parity of voting power should be achieved immediately by...
This note discusses about six farmer innovators from Ethiopia that took part in the recent international workshop on Promoting Local Innovation (PROLINNOVA), which was held in March 2004 at the Furra Institute...
Cette note porte sur six agriculteurs innovateurs d'Éthiopie qui ont participé au récent atelier international sur la promotion de l'innovation locale (PROLINNOVA) tenu au Furra Institute of Development...