Documents et rapports
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Reforming Labor Law for the Changing Nature of Work : Evidence from Mongolia (anglais)
This paper examines labor market regulations in Mongolia, particularly focusing on the new Labor Law enacted in January 2022. The review of the labor and minimum wage regulations suggests that the Mongolian...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 192084 Date du document: 31 mai 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Maho Hatayama,Batchuluun, Altantsetseg
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IFC Technology Code of Conduct : Progression Matrix - Public Draft (anglais)
This report presents developing artificial intelligence sustainably: toward a practical code of conduct for disruptive technologies.
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 147676 Date du document: 1 mars 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Myers,Gordon I.,Nejkov,Kiril
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Developing Artificial Intelligence Sustainably : Toward a Practical Code of Conduct for Disruptive Technologies (anglais)
The adoption and diffusion of artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies will play an important role in market creation and growth. Development finance institutions have a role to play in...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 147670 Date du document: 1 mars 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Estimating poverty rates in target populations : an assessment of the simple poverty scorecard and alternative approaches (anglais)
The performance of the simple poverty scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125523 Date du document: 1 août 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Diamond,Alexis,Gill,Michael,Rebolledo Dellepiane,Miguel Angel,Skoufias,Emmanuel,Vinha,Katja Pauliina,Xu,Yiqing
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1962 Presidential Transition – Eugene Black to George Woods (anglais)
Eugene Black speaks with George Woods who succeeded him as fourth President of the World Bank, International Development Association, and Chairman of the International Finance Corporation. The two portraits...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 104716 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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The Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies (PITA) : moving forward on information and communications technology (ICT) and innovation (anglais)
The economy of the Palestinian territories, hampered by years of conflict, occupation, and insecurity remains dependent on foreign aid and the public sector remains the largest employer. Jobs are too few...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 75217 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abukumail,Ali H.
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Private activity in infrastructure in East Asia and the Pacific slows down (anglais)
In 2011, 85 new infrastructure projects reached financial or contractual closure in lower and upper-middle income countries in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region: China (63), Indonesia (1), Lao...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 84027 Date du document: 1 septembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Verink,Bastiaan Johan
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A new look at microfinance apexes (anglais)
This paper uses the shorthand term 'microfinance' to refer to financial services for low-income people. Apex facilities exist for other sectors besides microfinance for instance, lending to exporters or...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 71311 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Forster,Sarah Jacqueline,Duflos,Eric Bertrand Pierre,Rosenberg,Richard
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A new look at microfinance apexes : Una nueva mirada a las instituciones de segundo piso dedicadas a las microfinanzas (espagnol)
This paper uses the shorthand term 'microfinance' to refer to financial services for low-income people. Apex facilities exist for other sectors besides microfinance for instance, lending to exporters or...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 71311 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Forster,Sarah Jacqueline,Duflos,Eric Bertrand Pierre,Rosenberg,Richard
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Migration, taxation, and inequality (anglais)
International migration is intimately intertwined with issues of taxation, inequality and public welfare benefits, both in home and destination countries. In home countries the emigration of workers, especially...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 68486 Date du document: 1 mai 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mohapatra,Sanket,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca,Ratha,Dilip Kumar
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Agricultural protection growth in Europe, 1870-1969 (anglais)
Dramatic changes took place in agricultural policies in Europe in the 19th and 20th century. In the 1860s European nations agreed on a series of trade agreements which spread free trade across the continent...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55954 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Swinnen,Johan F. M.
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 80 : election of Directors (anglais)
On August 1, 2008, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number eighty. It was resolved that: (i) the 2008 regular election of Directors should take place...
Type de document: Rapport aux Administrateurs Numéro du rapport: 82453 Date du document: 1 août 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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The Germany-Serbia remittance corridor: challenges of establishing a formal money transfer system (anglais)
This report provides an overview of remittance flows from Germany to Serbia and analyzes why a large part of remittance transfers take place outside financial institutions. The study presents a series...
Type de document: Autre étude sur le secteur financier Numéro du rapport: 36338 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barberis,Corrado,De Luna-Martinez,Jose,Endo,Isaku
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Gestion en pro de resultados : seguimiento a cargo de la sociedad civil en la Republica Dominicana (espagnol)
Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s, a series of unfortunate events drove the Dominican Republic in 2003, to a rapid decline in its socioeconomic...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 34643 Date du document: 1 octobre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carlson,Samuel C.,John-Abraham,Indu
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Gestion en pro de resultados : seguimiento a cargo de la sociedad civil en la Republica Dominicana : Managing for results : civil society monitoring in the Dominican Republic (anglais)
Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s, a series of unfortunate events drove the Dominican Republic in 2003, to a rapid decline in its socioeconomic...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 34643 Date du document: 1 octobre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carlson,Samuel C.,John-Abraham,Indu
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What makes FDI work? A panel analysis of the growth effect of FDI in Africa (anglais)
A panel analysis of the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth is conducted using data from 47 African countries over the last two decades (1980-2000). Overall, the analysis shows...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 33119 Date du document: 1 février 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lumbila,Kevin N.
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Reforming intergovernmental fiscal relations in the Czech Republic (anglais)
The Czech Republic has largely overcome the challenges associated with its legacy of socialism, the 1993 breakup of Czechoslovakia, and its transition to a market economy. In addition, the country's evolving...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 30196 Date du document: 1 octobre 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Martinez-Vazquez,Jorge,Oliveira, João do Carmo
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Case study 4 - Poland : participation in macroeconomic policy making and reform (anglais)
In January 1999, Poland launched a new pension system that was the result of 5-6 years of broad outreach campaigns and complex negotiations within the government and between the government and key stakeholder...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 27556 Date du document: 1 mars 2003
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The evolution of science and technology : Latin America and the Caribbean in comparative perspective : The evolution of science and technology: Latin America and the Caribbean in comparative perspective (anglais)
This study focuses on the evolution of science and technology in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Extensive empirical evidence lends support to the proposition that the ability to innovate, develop...
Type de document: Série d'études du Groupe du développement humain et social de LAC Numéro du rapport: 32471 Date du document: 1 décembre 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hansen,Thomas Nikolaj,Agapitova,Natalia,Holm-Nielsen,Lauritz B.,Vukmirovic,Ognjenka Goga
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Uganda - Adjustment operations in support of education (anglais)
In a bold effort to achieve Universal Primary Education (UPE) by 2000, the Government of Uganda decided in 1996 to remove primary school fees for up to four children in each family (of whom two should...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 29918 Date du document: 1 septembre 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Murphy,Patrick D.