This Brief uses data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) in 27 European Union countries (the EU-27) to gain insights into the adoption of management practices in the region's private sector...
In this note, we summarize three energy sector models used in Lebanon, Kosovo and the Comoros, three countries that had significant energy-sector challenges and limited fiscal space available to finance...
Do countries more exposed to macroeconomic volatility grow less than more stable nations? Are profligate governments more likely to exacerbate volatility? What about the role of the financial sector; are...
Turkey’s economy expanded rapidly in the 2000s, and per capita income is now close to World Bank’s high income threshold of U$12,736. While part of this economic growth was attributable to human and physical...
Turkey’s economy expanded rapidly in the 2000s, and per capita income is now close to World Bank’s high income threshold of U$12,736. While part of this economic growth was attributable to human and physical...
The cashew sector forms the core of Guinea-Bissau’s economy. Data from 2010 household survey show that cashew accounts for 26 percent of income (net of remittances) for female headed households and for...
Croatia has recently piloted a spending review (SR) as a mechanism to identify options for budgetary savings that can be realized either by improving efficiency or by reducing ineffective or low-priority...
According to the World Bank (2013), migrant remittances to developing countries in 2013 totaled United States (U.S.) 414 billion, dollars quadruple the approximately U.S. 100 billion dollars remitted to...
The country policy and institutional assessment (CPIA) assesses the quality of a country’s present policy and institutional framework. The CPIA ratings are used as part of the country performance rating...
This brief provides some practical examples of the strategies and processes which can be used to build such updates as platforms for policy dialogue, drawing on the experience of five years of production...
Improving the quality of macroeconomic and fiscal policymaking is central to the World Bank’s poverty reduction mission, and is the mandate of its macroeconomics and fiscal policy management global practice...
The US authorities announced in December 2014 an intention to normalize relations with Cuba, including measures to ease economic sanctions and the ban on US citizens’ travel to Cuba. The impact of the...
Development policy operations (DPOs) provide quick-disbursing general budget support against a program of critical structural reforms in areas of sectoral or overall economic policy. DPOs have become a...
Natural resources are being discovered in more countries, both rich and poor. Many of the new and aspiring resource exporters are low-income countries that are still receiving substantial levels of foreign...
The main purpose of this note is to share the knowledge and experience within the World Bank and to the community of stakeholders on the Public Sector Governance Program, the first Program for Results...