Documents et rapports
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Blended Concessional Finance and COVID-19 (anglais)
Blended concessional finance, the combination of commercial funds from development finance institutions (DFIs) and the private sector with concessional finance from public institutions, foundations, or...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 157648 Date du document: 1 février 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sierra-Escalante,Kruskaia,Karlin,Arthur S.
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Are tobacco taxes really regressive? : evidence from Chile (anglais)
Tobacco taxes are deemed regressive, because the poorest families tend to allocate larger shares of their budget to purchase tobacco. However, as taxes also discourage tobacco use, some of the most adverse...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125647 Date du document: 1 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Meneses Ponzini,Francisco Juan Alberto
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Multilateral Investment Guantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors Resolution; no. 99 : 2016 Regular Election of Directors (anglais)
On July 28, 2016, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number ninety nine. It is resolved that the 2016 Regular Election of Directors shall take place...
Type de document: Rapport aux Administrateurs Numéro du rapport: 107342 Date du document: 28 juillet 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Getting smart about financial inclusion : lessons from the smart aid index : Une approche intelligente de l'inclusion financiere : les lecons de l'indice smartaid (français)
Indices are frequently used to motivate behavior - think of the World Bank's doing business reports or the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP's) human development index. By measuring and benchmarking...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 93306 Date du document: 1 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: El-Zoghbi,Mayada,Scola Gahwiler,Barbara Bernadette Maria
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Getting smart about financial inclusion : lessons from the smart aid index : Instrumentos inteligentes para la inclusion financiera : ensenanzas del indice smartaid (espagnol)
Indices are frequently used to motivate behavior - think of the World Bank's doing business reports or the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP's) human development index. By measuring and benchmarking...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 93306 Date du document: 1 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: El-Zoghbi,Mayada,Scola Gahwiler,Barbara Bernadette Maria
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Getting smart about financial inclusion : lessons from the smart aid index (anglais)
Indices are frequently used to motivate behavior - think of the World Bank's doing business reports or the United Nations Development Program's (UNDP's) human development index. By measuring and benchmarking...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 93306 Date du document: 1 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: El-Zoghbi,Mayada,Scola Gahwiler,Barbara Bernadette Maria
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Good policies and practices on rural transport in Africa : monitoring and evaluation (anglais)
This publication is part of a series aimed at promoting good policies and practices on rural transport in Africa. A recent review of the status of Rural Transport Knowledge Products and Practice (Riverson...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 93781 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Airey,Anthony
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FY15-FY17 MNA business planning (anglais)
The new Bank structure that is to come into force on July 1, 2014 will bring with it a new business planning structure. This MNA K&L fast brief provides a brief overview of this process. The focus here...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 90140 Date du document: 1 mars 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Biswas,Shanu
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MENA regional brief (anglais)
The process of political change and transition across much of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continued into 2013, with a great degree of heterogeneity across countries. Violence in Syria has escalated...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 78069 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Byam,Gerard A.
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Public spending for long-run growth : a practitioners' view (anglais)
By financing public goods and services that enhance productivity and promote private investment, public spending is widely believed to be critical for long-run growth. Such effects are distinct from any...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 74074 Date du document: 1 décembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gemmell,Norman,Misch,Florian,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca
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Agricultural protection and poverty in Indonesia : a general equilibrium analysis (anglais)
A general equilibrium modeling approach is used to estimate the effects within Indonesia of unilateral and global trade liberalization, including effects on poverty incidence. It is concluded that global...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55938 Date du document: 1 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Warr,Peter George
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Cutting red tape in Lima : how municipal simplification improves investment climate (anglais)
Regulatory simplification has become a part of many countries' efforts to improve the investment climate and the overall economy. Reducing red tape can lift constraints on private sector development and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 39242 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anthony,Sarah Ellen,Artemiev,Igor E.,Haggarty,Luke Augustine,Samad,Taimur,Sislen,David N.
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Cutting red tape in Lima : how municipal simplification improves investment climate : Agilizacion de los tramites burocraticos en Lima : Como se beneficia el clima de inversion con la simplificacion municipal (espagnol)
Regulatory simplification has become a part of many countries' efforts to improve the investment climate and the overall economy. Reducing red tape can lift constraints on private sector development and...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 39242 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Anthony,Sarah Ellen,Artemiev,Igor E.,Haggarty,Luke Augustine,Samad,Taimur,Sislen,David N.
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Recruiting, retaining, and retraining secondary school teachers and principals in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
This working paper is based on country case studies of Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Uganda, and an extensive literature review. In many parts of Africa, the demand for secondary teachers...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 39167 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chapman,David W.,DeJaeghere, Joan G.,Leu, elizabeth,Mulkeen,Aidan Gerard
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Using traditional knowledge in economic development : the impact of raised field irrigation on agricultural production in Puno, Peru (anglais)
The Andean region of Puno, known as the altiplano, is located at 3,830 meters above sea level. The terrain is prone to flooding, and thus difficult to cultivate. In order to deal with this situation, Andean...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 39133 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Middleton, Melisande
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Improving nutrition in Ethiopia - a multi-sectoral challenge (anglais)
Child malnutrition follows from a host of factors, including food insecurity, disease, limited maternal education and poor nutritional knowledge and practices. Using the baseline survey for the evaluation...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38705 Date du document: 1 juin 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kuhl,Jesper J.
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Alternative dispute resolution - when it works, when it doesn't (anglais)
Alternative dispute resolution encompasses arbitration, mediation, conciliation, and other methods-short of formal litigation-for resolving disputes. Alternative dispute resolution offers several advantages...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33752 Date du document: 1 septembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Messick,Richard E.
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Models for recognizing indigenous land rights in Latin America (anglais)
This paper represents an important dimension in filling Latin America history's gaps through the lens of land rights. The continent was populated by many nations, functioned in harmony with nature, had...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 30886 Date du document: 1 octobre 2004 Auteur: Roldan Ortega, Roque
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Sénégal : Projet pilote en éducation en appui à l’alphabétisation des femmes (français)
L’objectif du Projet pilote d’éducation en faveur de l’alphabétisation des femmes était de relever les taux d’alphabétisation des populations de Dakar et des zones plus développées, et particulièrement...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 31061 Date du document: 1 avril 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Watkins,Sharon L.
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Senegal : Education pilot in support of female literacy (anglais)
The aim of the Senegal Pilot Female Literacy Project was to raise the literacy rates of populations in Dakar and the more developed areas and, most importantly, to remote areas that cannot be reached via...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 31061 Date du document: 1 avril 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Watkins,Sharon L.