Documents et rapports
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Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality (anglais)
Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, one of the Sustainable Development Goals, is a highly complex and challenging undertaking. We must address multiple issues, discrimination, violence...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 151295 Date du document: 1 juin 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rana,Ahmed Nauraiz
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New estimates of extreme poverty for children (anglais)
This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125591 Date du document: 1 octobre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Newhouse,David Locke,Suarez Becerra,Pablo,Evans,Martin C
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The World Bank's role as mediator in the 1950's (anglais)
September 19, 2016 marked the 56th anniversary of the signing of the Indus Basin treaty by India and Pakistan. The agreement signified the end of a long dispute between the two countries and opened the...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 121396 Date du document: 1 septembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Value for money from public education expenditure on elementary education in India (anglais)
The World Bank has been supporting the Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE)program for India through its support to the flagship program of the Government of India, theSarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 107183 Date du document: 1 avril 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Infrastructure policy unit : 2012 PPI data update - energy sector (anglais)
In 2012, 244 new energy projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in 35 lower- and upper-middle income countries. Total investment commitments (hereafter, investment)...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 115124 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Verink,Bastiaan Johan
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Advancing financial inclusion through use of market archetypes (anglais)
This focus note provides a framework that regulators, policy makers, financial service providers, donors, and investors can use to identify the most productive next steps in their respective markets. It...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 78234 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Faz De Los Santos,Pedro Xavier, Moser, Ted
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Cairo transport app challenge : leveraging ICT entrepreneurship and open innovation to solve daily challenges (anglais)
There is a momentum in Egypt for a critical assessment of pressing development challenges in the aftermath of dramatic political shifts in the country. This change is fueling demand for new, more open...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 75862 Date du document: 1 mars 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paradi-Guilford,Cecilia Maria,Halewood,Naomi J.,Wahby,Eman Fouad, Kouesney, Nehal Hassan El,Rossotto,Carlo Maria
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Trade and climate change : an analytical review of key issues (anglais)
The last decade has witnessed an increasing global awareness of human impact on the planet's climate and its likely consequences. However, strategic and structural complexities hinder further compliance...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 71595 Date du document: 1 août 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Onder,Harun
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Development and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) : challenges and opportunities (anglais)
Many parts of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have experienced volatility and fragility due to conflict over the course of the region's long and complex history. These conflicts have had significant...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 64500 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lind,Lene Natasha,Gustafsson,Sara,Raghavan,Vikram
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 86 : modernizing MIGA's mandate: amendments to MIGA's convention (anglais)
On July 30, 2010, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number eighty-six. It was resolved that Article 11 - covered risks and Article 12 - eligible...
Type de document: Rapport aux Administrateurs Numéro du rapport: 82459 Date du document: 30 juillet 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Agricultural price distortion and stabilization : stylized facts and hypothesis tests (anglais)
This paper describes agricultural policy choices and tests some predictions of political economy theories. It begins with three broad stylized facts: governments tend to tax agriculture in poorer countries...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55957 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Masters,William Alan,Garcia,Andres F.
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Institutional arrangements for transport corridor management in Sub-Saharan Africa : Mecanismes institutionnels de gestion des corridors en Afrique subsaharienne (français)
Corridor efficiency is important to the competitiveness of most of the African economies, especially those that are landlocked. Corridors can be defined as a collection of routes linking several economic...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 43039 Date du document: 1 octobre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Adzibgey, Yao,Kunaka,Charles,Mitiku,Tesfamichael Nahusenay
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Institutional arrangements for transport corridor management in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
Corridor efficiency is important to the competitiveness of most of the African economies, especially those that are landlocked. Corridors can be defined as a collection of routes linking several economic...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 43039 Date du document: 1 octobre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Adzibgey, Yao,Kunaka,Charles,Mitiku,Tesfamichael Nahusenay
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Educacion para todos : la inclusion de los ninos con discapacidad (espagnol)
About 40 million of the 115 million children who do not attend school are physically challenged youth. This paper describes the status of the Education For All initiative and concludes with the following...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 37044 Date du document: 1 février 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Peters,Susan J.
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The U.S.-Guatemala remittance corridor : understanding better the drivers of remittances intermediation (anglais)
This study reports on recent development and future potential for U.S.-based Guatemalan workers cross-border retail transfers to be more formal, cheaper, and disposed to the cross-sale of financial products...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 38059 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cheikh Rouhou Ep Abid,Hela,Jarque,Rodrigo,Hernandez-Coss,Raul E.,El-Swaify,Radwa O.
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Nugormesese: an indigenous basis of social capital in a West African community (anglais)
The primary objective of this article is to present nugormesese as an indigenous mechanism of social capital in Buem-Kator, a farming community on the Ghana side of the Ghana-Togo border area. The concept...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 34346 Date du document: 1 novembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Le Nugormesese : une base traditionnelle de capital social dans une communauté ouest-africaine (français)
Le principal objectif de cet article est de présenter le nugormesese comme un mécanisme indigène de capital social à Buem-Kator, une communauté agricole du Ghana située à la frontière avec le Togo. Le...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 34346 Date du document: 1 novembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Infrastructure, productivity and urban dynamics in Cote d'ivoire: an empirical analysis and policy implications (anglais)
Recent contributions in economic geography reflect renewed interest in issues of location and spatial concentration of economic activities, yet there are still few empirical studies of developing countries...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 34247 Date du document: 1 juillet 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bogetic, Zelijko,Sanogo,Issa
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Infrastructure, productivity, and urban dynamics in Cote D'Ivoire : an empirical analysis and policy implications (anglais)
Recent contributions in economic geography reflect renewed interest in issues of location and spatial concentration of economic activities, yet there are still few empirical studies of developing countries...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 33167 Date du document: 1 juin 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bogetic,Zeljko,Sanogo,Issa
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Human rights and social accountability (anglais)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the common features and linkages between rights based approaches to development and social accountability and suggest how social accountability initiatives can be...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 33011 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ackerman, John M.