Documents et rapports
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Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People’s Perspectives from Wielkopolska (anglais)
Part of a three-region set of papers analyzing coal-related labor market challenges in Poland, this paper focuses on Wielkopolska, which is most advanced in the transition out of coal. Finding viable job...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 177190 Date du document: 18 octobre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen,Luc,Ferré, Céline,Honorati,Maddalena,Gajderowicz,Tomasz Janusz,Wrona,Sylwia Michalina
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Artificial Intelligence : Investment Trends and Selected Industry Uses (anglais)
The global race to fund, develop, and acquire artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and start-ups is intensifying, with commercial uses for AI proliferating in advanced and emerging economies alike...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 143357 Date du document: 1 septembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mou,Xiaomin
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Is living in African cities expensive? (anglais)
Although several studies have examined why overall price levels are higher in richer countries, little is known about whether there is a similar relationship at the urban and city level across countries...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125660 Date du document: 1 avril 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nakamura,Shohei,Harati,Rawaa,Lall,Somik V.,Dikhanov,Yuri M.,Hamadeh,Nada,Vigil Oliver,William,Rissanen,Marko Olavi,Yamanaka,Mizuki
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World Bank Concerns and Policies during the 1973-74 OPEC Embargo (anglais)
To mark Energy Week 2011 at the World bank, and to consider the issue of rising oil prices, the Archives has chosen to highlight a drawing by Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, created during the 1973-74 OPEC oil...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104707 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Empowering communities : the local initiatives support program in Russia (anglais)
Prosperity from economic growth is not shared evenly among Russia's population and regions. Local communities and rural territories face serious development challenges: including poor living conditions...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 89227 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Khachatryan,Gagik,Shulga,Ivan,Sukhova,Anna
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Empowering communities : the local initiatives support program in Russia (russe)
Prosperity from economic growth is not shared evenly among Russia's population and regions. Local communities and rural territories face serious development challenges: including poor living conditions...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 89227 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Khachatryan,Gagik,Shulga,Ivan,Sukhova,Anna
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School health and nutrition in Sri Lanka (anglais)
School health and nutrition (SHN) programs are critical for achieving education for all (EFA) as research has shown that improvements in health status contribute to improvements in learning and academic...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 97773 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Drake, L. J.,Peiris, R.,Dixon. R.,Palfreyman, A.,Ebenezer,Roshini Mary,Lokubalasuriya, A.,Kwon,Jae Hyung,Medagama, R. S..,Bundy,Donald A. P.,Aturupane,Harsha,De Silva, N.
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Inclusion and resilience : the way forward for social safety nets in MENA (anglais)
The Arab Spring and subsequent transitions provide opportunities for better governance, economies free of cronyism and more inclusive models of growth. Social Safety Nets (SSN) will be a key component...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 73006 Date du document: 1 septembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Silva,Joana C. G.,Levin,Victoria,Morgandi,Matteo
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Private investment in large transport projects increases during the first semester of 2011, concentrated in India and the road sector (anglais)
In the first semester of 2011, 34 new transport projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in nine low- and middle-income countries, involving investment commitments (hereafter...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 73206 Date du document: 1 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kingston,Nicholas Alexander
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The drought and food crisis in the Horn of Africa : impacts and proposed policy responses for Kenya (anglais)
As the world begins to feel the effects of climate change, the frequency of droughts is increasing in the Horn of Africa. In Kenya, the drought and food crisis affect welfare through two main channels...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 65758 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Demombynes,Gabriel,Kiringai,Jane Wangui
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Foreign capital investment in microfinance : reassessing financial and social returns (anglais)
Despite the financial crisis, in the past four years foreign investment in microfinance, including both debt and equity, has quadrupled to reach US$13 billion. This growth has been driven as much by public...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 63334 Date du document: 1 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reille,Xavier,Forster,Sarah Jacqueline,Rozas,Daniel
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Foreign capital investment in microfinance : reassessing financial and social returns : Inversion extranjera de capital en microfinanzas: reevaluacion de los beneficios sociales y los financieros (espagnol)
Despite the financial crisis, in the past four years foreign investment in microfinance, including both debt and equity, has quadrupled to reach US$13 billion. This growth has been driven as much by public...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 63334 Date du document: 1 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reille,Xavier,Forster,Sarah Jacqueline,Rozas,Daniel
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Foreign capital investment in microfinance : reassessing financial and social returns : Investissements etrangers en microfinance : re-evaluer les rendements financiers et sociaux (français)
Despite the financial crisis, in the past four years foreign investment in microfinance, including both debt and equity, has quadrupled to reach US$13 billion. This growth has been driven as much by public...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 63334 Date du document: 1 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reille,Xavier,Forster,Sarah Jacqueline,Rozas,Daniel
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Global distortions to key agricultural commodity markets (anglais)
The regional books that provided detailed estimates of distortion in developing economies are all country focused. While they include commodity details for their particular country, they are not able to...
Numéro du rapport: 56138 Date du document: 1 mars 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anderson,Kym,Croser,Johanna Louise,Nelgen,Signe,Valenzuela,Ernesto
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Consensus, confusion, and controversy - selected land reform issues in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
Land reform can broadly be divided into land tenure reform-the establishment of secure and formalized property rights in land-and land redistribution-the transfer of land from large to small farmers. The...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 34515 Date du document: 1 novembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Binswanger,Hans P.,Bruce,John W.,Byamugisha,Frank Fulgence K.,Crasta,Glen Thomas,Van Den Brink,Rogier J. E.
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 71 : Reclassification of Slovenia (anglais)
On June 8, 1988, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number seventy one. The Council of Governors hereby resolves that: i) Slovenia is hereby reclassified...
Type de document: Rapport aux Administrateurs Numéro du rapport: 82444 Date du document: 31 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Poverty in Ecuador (anglais)
The note looks at poverty in Ecuador, assessing macroeconomic developments through its policies to maintain stability with fiscal discipline, and increase economic productivity and competitiveness, in...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 34198 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sanchez,Carolina
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Poverty in Ecuador : Pobreza en Ecuador (espagnol)
The note looks at poverty in Ecuador, assessing macroeconomic developments through its policies to maintain stability with fiscal discipline, and increase economic productivity and competitiveness, in...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 34198 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sanchez,Carolina
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Nicaragua sustainable charcoal production in the Chinandega Region Emergency Project : Sustainable charcoal production in Posoltega following Hurricane Mitch (anglais)
The Charcoal Emergency Project took place from January to June 1999 in the Tololar community, Posoltega, Nicaragua. The objective of the project was to "harvest" (or collect) the logs and trees that fell...
Type de document: Rapport de l'ESMAP Numéro du rapport: 35946 Date du document: 1 janvier 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cassagne, Bernard,Engracia de Trinidad, Maria,Girard, Philippe,Masse,Rene
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Participatory video: rural people document their knowledge and innovations (anglais)
Indigenous knowledge and local initiatives are usually documented and disseminated by outsiders, who make their own interpretations in the process. Participatory Video (PV) provides an opportunity for...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 31260 Date du document: 1 août 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed