This note examines how sensitive the demand for business training is to price, and whether charging a higher price causes firm owners to exert more effort in training.
Agro-food standards, including those relating to product quality, food safety, and the environmental and social impacts of production, have become the focus of intense controversy among those concerned...
In 2010, 23 infrastructure projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closing in five low- and middle-income countries in Europe and Central Asia, involving investment commitments...
The growing use of branchless banking channels over the coming years is inevitable in most countries. But it's far less certain whether large numbers of the unbanked poor will use these alternative channels...
The growing use of branchless banking channels over the coming years is inevitable in most countries. But it's far less certain whether large numbers of the unbanked poor will use these alternative channels...
Pendant vingt ans d’activités de développement, les rapports sur la « crise » de la désertification, de la pénurie de denrées alimentaires et de l’inefficacité économique ont été démentis par des contre-propos...
Throughout two decades of development activity, reports on the "crisis" of desertification, food scarcity, and economic inefficiency have been challenged by local counter-narratives which show local people...
The Indonesia Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project (COREMAP) is the first operation supported by the World Bank to focus exclusively on coral reef ecosystems. COREMAP is being implemented in...
The legal structure of the modern corporate form has four fundamental elements--separate identity, limited liability for shareholders, centralized management, and transferability of shares. These, together...