Documents et rapports
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Promoting E-commerce in Georgia : Exploring Constraints to Online Participation using Baseline Data from an Experimental Study (anglais)
E-commerce has the potential to expand market opportunities for businesses. However, it is not guaranteed. The World Development Report on Digital Dividends (World Bank 2016) highlights the importance...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 151178 Date du document: 16 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Apedo Amah, Marie Christine,Coville, Aidan,Piza, Caio,Raja, Siddhartha,Scarpari, Raquel
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Re-thinking the Approach to Informal Businesses : Typologies, Evidence and Future Exploration (anglais)
Interventions to incentivize business formalization over the past decades have shown mixed results (Bruhn and McKenzie, 2013; Bruhn and McKenzie, 2018; Floridi et al., 2019) and brought limited knowledge...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 154463 Date du document: 18 novembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Marusic, Andreja,Nielsen, William Iver,Ghossein, Tania,Solf, Sylvia
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Barriers to Competition in Product Market Regulation : New Insights on Emerging Market and Developing Economies (anglais)
Reforms to foster competition in product markets have been shown to improve productivity and support economic growth in advanced economies (AEs). However, relatively little is known about restrictions...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 152883 Date du document: 8 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dauda, Seidu,Drozd, Maciej Adam
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Policy Options to Mitigate Political Risk and Attract FDI (anglais)
Political risks covers a wide range of issues, and this note focuses on a subset of political risk: the risks that arise from government actions, whether political or regulatory, that can affect the profitability...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 151742 Date du document: 12 août 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kher, Priyanka,Chun, Dongwook
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Less Burden, More Transparency, and Higher Quality : Electronic System for Business Safety Inspections in Peru (anglais)
Business safety inspections are commonly cited as one of the most important bureaucratic barriers to doing business around the developing world (World Bank 2019, 2020). In Peru, the business safety inspection...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 151049 Date du document: 21 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barron Ayllon, Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles, Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia, Diego,Goicoechea, Ana
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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment Outcomes in Developing Countries : A Literature Review of the Effects of FDI on Job Creation and Wages (anglais)
This survey of literature explores the heterogeneous effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on employment outcomes in three types of domestic firms: foreign-owned local firms that are affiliates of...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 150072 Date du document: 26 juin 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Saurav, Abhishek,Liu, Yan,Sinha, Aarushi
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Foreign Direct Investment, Backward Linkages, and Productivity Spillovers : What Governments Can Do to Strengthen Linkages and Their Impact (anglais)
This note provides an up-to-date summary of the academic evidence around the drivers and channels for technology transfer and productivity spillovers by multinational corporations (MNC) operating in host...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 148401 Date du document: 1 mai 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jordaan, Jacob Arie,Douw, Willem,Qiang, Zhenwei
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Investment Linkages and Incentives : Promoting Technology Transfer and Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) (anglais)
This note seeks to provide an overview of investment incentive policy as a tool for Governments seeking to promote technology transfer and productivity spillovers by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 148402 Date du document: 1 mai 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Sabha, Yassin,Liu, Yan,Douw, Willem
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Strengthening Service Delivery of Investment Promotion Agencies : The Comprehensive Investor Services Framework (anglais)
Research shows that investment promotion agencies (IPAs) may be the best public institutions to meet government objectives for attracting, establishing, retaining, expanding, and linking productive private...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 146891 Date du document: 1 mars 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heilbron, Armando,Aranda Larrey, Yago
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Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Corporate Tax Incentives : Methodological Approaches and Policy Considerations (anglais)
Developing countries are increasingly offering tax breaks to attract investors and pursue various policy objectives such as encouraging investments in research and development (R and D) and increasing...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 146704 Date du document: 1 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kronfol, Hania,Steenbergen, Victor
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Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity : A Literature Review on the Effects of FDI on Local Firm Productivity (anglais)
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the productivity of domestic firms is significant, but the economic gains from FDI are not guaranteed to be large or positive for individual firms. The...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 149549 Date du document: 1 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Saurav, Abhishek,Kuo, Ryan Chia
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How Countries can Fully Implement the New York Convention : A Critical Tool for Enforcement of International Arbitration Decisions (anglais)
The year 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, the most important international convention in the area of international...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 144707 Date du document: 30 décembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Forneris, Xavier,Mocheva, Nina Pavlova
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Tanzania and Implementation of East Africa Mutual Recognition of Veterinary Medicines (anglais)
Tanzania has the third largest livestock population in Africa (after Ethiopia and Sudan), but the competitiveness of Tanzania’s livestock sector faces many challenges, including lack of access to good-quality...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 135603 Date du document: 1 janvier 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baregu, Solomon Simon,Wigenge, Raymond Nicholaus,Shrader, Hans,Thendiu, Isaac Njoro
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Albania : Trade Impact of CEFTA (anglais)
Regional free trade agreements (FTAs) have a sizable effect on exports and foster economic growth. While reducing tariffs in member countries, regional FTAs harmonize trade policy across regions and reduce...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 134055 Date du document: 1 décembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Competitive Fruit and Vegetable Products in Albania (anglais)
Albania is heavily dependent on its agricultural sector, which accounts for 20.3 percent of GDP, 49 percent of employment and 8.5 percent of total exports. The fruit and vegetable sector represents 20...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 134056 Date du document: 1 décembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Which Countries are Better Prepared to Compete Globally in the Disruptive Technology Age? (anglais)
This note provides a rapid, forward-looking analysis of countries’ share of the global private sector. By using technology-enabled Unicorns as a leading indicator of the future’s global private sector...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 131210 Date du document: 1 octobre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mulas, Victor
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Supporting Entrepreneurs at the Local Level : the Effect of Accelerators and Mentors on Early-Stage Firms (anglais)
We investigate the association between entrepreneurship support programs and the likelihood of receiving funding for early-stage firms. We use a novel database of 2,887 early-stage technology companies...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 129790 Date du document: 6 septembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Qian, Kathy Xin,Mulas, Victor,Lerner, Mattathias Aron
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Expanding access to finance for small-scale businesses secured transactions reform : an Indonesia case study (anglais)
A lack of access to finance has been one of the biggest impediments to the development and growth of the small-scale business sector in Indonesia. While micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 111735 Date du document: 5 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Transforming health through e-payments in India (anglais)
The World Bank Group (WBG), in collaboration with the Government of Bihar, is implementing a government-to-person (G2P) health payments project with co-funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 119413 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Isern, Jennifer,Sharma, Anita Kumari,Marin Espinosa, Ana Georgina
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Fixed income instruments to mobilize institutional investors for SME financing in EMEs (anglais)
Emerging market economies (EMEs) face significant funding gaps in strategic sectors, such as infrastructure and small and medium enterprise (SME) financing, that if not addressed can stifle growth. In...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 119412 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Carvajal, Ana Fiorella,Loladze, Tamuna,Hammersley, James Walter,Anderson, Jeffrey David,Walley, Simon Christopher,Kemmish, Richard