This Factsheet provides an overview of the finance, competitiveness and innovation sector in France according to key performance indicators.
This Factsheet provides an overview of the Justice sector in France according to key performance indicators.
This Factsheet provides an overview of the gender sector in France according to key performance indicators.
This factsheet provides an overview of the tourism sector in France according to key performance indicators.
This brief showcases the gender landscape in France on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains, minimizes...
IFC maintains a strategic relationship with France through the French Treasury, Proparco and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). IFC, with the support of the French Treasury, serves as the Secretariat...
Are governments locally biased when buying goods and services? Can this home bias explain the low integration of procurement markets? Using one million procurement contracts awarded in France and Spain...
All children should be able to read by age 10. Reading is a gateway for learning as the child progresses through school - and conversely, an inability to read constrains opportunities for further learning...
The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. At the outset of school closures, the French...
This paper reviews the emerging big data literature applied to urban transportation issues from the perspective of economic research. It provides a typology of big data sources relevant to transportation...
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. The French Ministry of Education mobilised its network...
Doing business 2020 is the 17th in a series of annual studies investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing business presents quantitative indicators on...
The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus extend the recent empirical literature, which is mainly concerned with its measurement...
Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 covers 11 areas of business regulation. Ten of these areas - starting a business, dealing with...
This report discusses the speech by the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at the One Planet Summit, Paris, France in December 2017. He informed to honored to co-host this summit with them, to focus...
Doing Business 2018 is the 15th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This economy profile presents the Doing Business...
Mosquito abatement is a public good. A simultaneous model of mosquito abundance and abatement response is developed. This paper uses data from a cluster randomized controlled experiment conducted over...
This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for France. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. Doing Business...
The portability of social benefits is gaining importance given the increasing share of individuals working at least part of their life outside their home country. Bilateral social security agreements (BSSAs)...
Doing Business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes...