Documents et rapports
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Another attempt to reform Brazil's intergovernmental financing arrangements : preliminary results and future prospects (anglais)
Since the mid-1990s, Brazil has struggled, with limited success, to reform its intergovernmental financing arrangements. Every four years, the electoral cycle brings promises of much needed reforms. Recently...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88640 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Araujo,Jorge A. De Thompson R.,Barroso,Rafael Chelles
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Long-term finance in EMEs : navigating between risks and policy choices (anglais)
Emerging market economies (EMEs) are making important strides in developing long-term finance capital market vehicles to support investment in strategic areas such as infrastructure. However, since last...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 89224 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Canuto,Otaviano,Silva,Anderson Caputo,Garcia-Kilroy,Catalina
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A framework to assess the fiscal risks of public bodies : Jamaica (anglais)
This note outlines a framework for assessing the extent of fiscal risks inherent in the operations of public bodies (PBs), highlighting eight applications in Jamaica. Scenario analysis and stress testing...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88612 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cazorla,Marta Riveira,Longmore,Rohan,Verhoeven,Marinus
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Information for export survival : an analysis of Georgian export performance and survival in international markets (anglais)
Successful entry into export markets and the subsequent survival of export flows are crucial if a country is to grow and diversify its export base. The accumulated experience of firms that export a particular...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88992 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenna,Jonathan Miles,Reyes,Jose Daniel,Varela,Gonzalo J.
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Sharing prosperity by closing South Asia's infrastructure gap (anglais)
While South Asia's average gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the past decade was only slightly lower than in East Asia and the Pacific, the region significantly lags behind in terms of infrastructure...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88928 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Andres,Luis Alberto,Basnyat,Ashma,Biller,S. A. Dan,Herrera Dappe,Matias
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The commodity super cycle : is this time different? (anglais)
Some analysts believe that the commodity price boom of the new millennium has played itself out. However, natural resource based commodity prices (with the exception of shale gas and its downward pressure...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88949 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Canuto,Otaviano
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Public research organizations and agricultural development in Brazil : how did Embrapa get it right? (anglais)
One of the most extraordinary events in Brazil in the past 30 years has been the country's agricultural revolution. In the 1970s, food scarcity was a concrete risk in a country experiencing rapid urbanization...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88490 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Correa,Paulo Guilherme,Alkmin Junqueira Schmidt,Cristiane
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Three perspectives on Brazilian growth pessimism (anglais)
Over the last few years, Brazil's growth has significantly decelerated. Accompanying this slowdown, a change in commentary on Brazil's economic future has emerged, and is reflected in a recent ratings...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88848 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Canuto,Otaviano,Schellekens,Philip
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Future without oil? : diversifying options for Trinidad and Tobago (anglais)
Trinidad and Tobago (T and T) is an example of successful diversification within the oil and gas sector and the country is now a global player in the energy industry. Diversifying its asset base so that...
Numéro du rapport: 87852 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carneiro,Francisco Galrao,Cazorla,Marta Riveira,Jaupart,Pascal Jean Edouard,Longmore,Rohan
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Is aging bad for the economy? Maybe (anglais)
The world's aging population is expected to shape the future of economies across the globe. Without behavioral adaptation by current and future generations, this demographic transformation is likely to...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88221 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Onder,Harun,Pestieau,Pierre
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Making global value chains work for development (anglais)
Global value chains (GVCs) are playing an increasingly important role in business strategies, which has profoundly changed international trade and development paradigms. GVCs now represent a new path for...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 88053 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Taglioni,Daria,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
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Sluggish post crisis growth : policies, secular stagnation, and outlook (anglais)
In the aftermath of the recent global financial crisis, advanced economies have continued to experience sluggish growth. Is this slow post crisis growth the result of a policy response that was overly...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 86483 Date du document: 1 avril 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Canuto,Otaviano,Griffith,Breda,Nallari,Yugandhar Raj
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Urbanization, gender, and business creation in the informal sector in India (anglais)
This economic premise examines the intersection of four important development themes: urbanization, agglomeration, gender, and informality. Although urbanization has continued at a rapid pace, formalization...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 87096 Date du document: 1 avril 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kanbur,Ravi,O'Connell Stephen D.
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Why is reducing energy subsidies a prudent, fair, and transformative policy for Indonesia? (anglais)
If there was one bold and timely policy to transform Indonesia, this is it. In 2012, spending on energy subsidies claimed more than one-fifth of the central government's budget, that is, more than three...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 86815 Date du document: 1 mars 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Diop,Ndiame
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Access to finance, product innovation, and middle-income growth traps (anglais)
After experiencing an initial period of rapid growth, many developing countries have fallen into the middle-income 'trap', stuck between low-wage, low-technology markets and high-income, innovation-based...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 86114 Date du document: 1 mars 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Agenor,Pierre-Richard,Canuto,Otaviano,Jelenic,Michael Christopher
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Nothing to fear but fear itself : evidence on imported intermediates in Indonesia (anglais)
The combination of an increasing trade imbalance, concerns about deindustrialization after several years of booming commodity prices, and rising imports of intermediate inputs and capital goods over the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 85983 Date du document: 1 mars 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rahardja,Sjamsu,Varela,Gonzalo J.
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Global value chains in the current trade slowdown (anglais)
Real growth in global trade has decelerated significantly since its sharp recovery in 2010. Year-on-year growth in global real trade1 decelerated from 13.3 percent at the end of the first quarter of 2010...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 86232 Date du document: 1 mars 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ferrantino,Michael Joseph,Taglioni,Daria
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Does FDI work for Africa? Assessing local spillovers in a world of global value chains (anglais)
The extent to which developing countries benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI) depends on whether they are able to realize the productivity-enhancing benefits of knowledge and technology spillovers...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 84951 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Farole,Thomas,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
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Reforming subsidies in Morocco (anglais)
The cost of the subsidy system in Morocco peaked at 6.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, an amount larger than the country's total investment budget for that year. Direct subsidies to households...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 84516 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Araar,Abdelkrim,El Massnaoui,Khalid,Verme,Paolo
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What makes cities more competitive? Lessons from India (anglais)
Policy makers in both developed and developing countries want to accelerate spatial development, make cities more competitive, attract new entrepreneurs, boost economic growth, and promote job creation...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 83905 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kerr,William Robert,O'Connell, Stephen D.