Documents et rapports
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September 2022 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) : What’s New (anglais)
The September 2022 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves two changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. First, this update adopts the 2017 Purchasing Power Parities...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 175886 Date du document: 1 mars 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: R.Andres Castaneda Aguilar,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Fujs,Tony Henri Mathias Jany,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Lakner,Christoph,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Schoch,Marta,Tetteh Baah,Samuel Kofi,Viveros Mendoza,Martha Celmira
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Can the Luck of the Draw Help Social Safety Nets? (anglais)
Lottery, a simple random draw, has been used in selecting beneficiaries of public work programs in context as diverse as Argentina and the Central African Republic. However, despite a burgeoning literature...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 157912 Date du document: 1 avril 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bance,Paul G. A.,Schnitzer,Pascale
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Health and Distributional Effects Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages : the case of Kazakhstan (anglais)
Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been linked to a range of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and over 12 types of cancer (Singh, et...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 149172 Date du document: 1 juin 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Mandeville,Kate,Alonso Soria,Ana Cristina
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Enhancing local economic impact (anglais)
This note provides guidance on how to ensure that an agricultural investment generates positive impacts on the local economy by encouraging and supporting opportunities arising for individuals, farmers...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 124299 Date du document: 1 mars 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Creating pro-poor transport : connecting the dots - transport, growth, and poverty reduction (anglais)
Transport plays a crucial role in connecting people to goods and services and fostering sustainable development. The literature links improved transport infrastructure to economic growth and poverty reduction...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 102766 Date du document: 1 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Alam,Muneeza Mehmood
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Helping hand or the long arm of the law? : do carrots or sticks work best for bringing informal firms into the formal sector? (anglais)
Since 2004, 75 percent of countries have adopted at least one reform making it easier to register a business. Yet, despite these efforts, the majority of firms in most developing countries remain informal...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 78241 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: de Andrade, Gustavo Henrique,Bruhn,Miriam,McK
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Building monitoring and evaluation capacity in the Republic of Yemen (anglais)
This note disseminates key lessons learned from the World Bank financed project in the Republic of Yemen, monitoring and evaluation of the poverty reduction strategy paper and reform programs, which established...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76976 Date du document: 1 mars 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ivins,Ingrid B.,Hwang,Helena
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Peru - Clean hands, healthy children (anglais)
In 2004 when this Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) project was approved, diarrheal diseases were one of the three main causes of morbidity and mortality for children under the age of five in Peru...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 125737 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Increasing trade in banking and insurance services in West Africa monetary zone (anglais)
This policy note identifies a limited number of 'quick wins' for integration of the banking and insurance sectors in West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) which could be used as confidence building successes...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 63812 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Musuku,Thilasoni Benjamin,Elat, Patrick,Lovegrove,Andrew,Reichert,Oliver Erik
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Climate change and urban water utilities : challenges and opportunities (anglais)
This report is part of a larger World Bank effort that seeks to provide analytical and strategic assistance to Bank staff and utilities in client countries as they begin to consider the implications of...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 54235 Date du document: 1 avril 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Danilenko,Alexander V.,Dickson,Eric,Jacobsen,Michael Peter Steen
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New private infrastructure activity in developing countries recovered in the first half of 2009 thanks to the electricity sector, but the crisis continues to impact projects (anglais)
This review of new private participation in infrastructure (PPI) projects, covering the period up to June 2009, sheds some light on the recent activity and the short-term impact of the financial crisis...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 69427 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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New private infrastructure activity in developing countries recovered in the first half of 2009 thanks to the electricity sector, but the crisis continues to impact projects (anglais)
New private activity in infrastructure continues to take place in developing countries despite the financial and economic crisis. New projects are being tendered and brought to financial or contractual...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 53060 Date du document: 1 octobre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre
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Output-based aid in telecommunications : new models for universal access in Latin America (anglais)
During the 1990s many Latin American countries developed universal access programs, financed through universal service funds, to increase telecommunications access in rural and low-income areas. The mechanism...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 47637 Date du document: 1 février 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Muente Kunigami,Arturo
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Managing lakes and lake basins for sustainable use (anglais)
Lakes and reservoirs are the world's major repository of accessible freshwater. They are central to the livelihoods and economies of a large fraction of the world's population, as well as being centers...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 47312 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Building infrastructure and social capital in rural Egypt (anglais)
Disparity in growth rates between Upper and Lower Egypt has been dramatic. While national per capita income averaged 3 percent growth annually beginning in the mid 1990s, and growth rates in metropolitan...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 41240 Date du document: 1 août 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Larson,Gunnar,Soliman,Ayat
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Post-conflict security sector and public finance management: lessons from Afghanistan (anglais)
In recent years, international organizations like OECD and the World Bank have concluded that standard principles of Public Finance Management (PFM) are equally applicable to all areas of the national...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 36893 Date du document: 1 juillet 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Post-conflict security sector and public finance management : lessons from Afghanistan (anglais)
In recent years, international organizations have concluded that standard principles of Public Finance Management (PFM) are equally applicable to all areas of the national budget, including the security...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 36988 Date du document: 1 juillet 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Middlebrook,Peter James,Simpson, Rima,Melloul,Karene Eliane
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Is microfinance an effective strategy to reach the Millennium Development Goals? : Constituye el microfinanciamiento una estrategia eficaz para alcanzar los objetivos de desarrollo del milenio? (espagnol)
The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have galvanized the development community with an urgent challenge to improve the welfare of the world's neediest people. Donor agencies are orienting...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33454 Date du document: 1 août 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin,Littlefield,Elizabeth L.,Morduch,Jonathan J.
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Is microfinance an effective strategy to reach the Millennium Development Goals? (arabe)
The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have galvanized the development community with an urgent challenge to improve the welfare of the world's neediest people. Donor agencies are orienting...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33454 Date du document: 1 janvier 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin,Littlefield,Elizabeth L.,Morduch,Jonathan J.
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La microfinance est-elle une stratégie efficace pour atteindre les objectifs du millénaire pour le développement ? (français)
Les objectifs de développement pour le Millénaire (ODM) adoptés par les Nations Unies mobilisent les forces de la communauté du développement qui s’emploie à relever d’urgence le défi que pose l’amélioration...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 33454 Date du document: 1 janvier 2003 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin,Littlefield,Elizabeth L.,Morduch,Jonathan J.