Documents et rapports

The Gendered Impact of Social Norms on Financial Access and Capital Misallocation (anglais)

This paper provides evidence on the nature of financial constraints faced by women entrepreneurs, especially in contexts of stringent social norms. Using micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys...

Responsibility Sharing and the Economic Participation of Refugees in Chad (anglais)

The Global Compact on Refugees recognizes the importance of responsibility sharing for hosting, protecting, and assisting refugees, while emphasizing the potential of economic participation to reduce the...

Brazil - Progestão Mato Grosso : Public Sector Management Efficiency Project (anglais)

The development objective of Progestão Mato Grosso: Public Sector Management Efficiency Project for Brazil is to improve efficiency in public resource management in selected departments of the State of...

Brazil - Progestão Alagoas: Public Sector Management Efficiency Project (anglais)

The development objective of Progestão Alagoas: Public Sector Management Efficiency Project for Brazil is to improve efficiency in public resource management in selected departments of the State of Alagoas...

Two Heads Are Better Than One : Agricultural Production and Investment in Côte d’Ivoire (anglais)

Low levels of agricultural productivity and investment hinder economic growth in developing countries. This paper presents results from a field experiment in Côte d'Ivoire, which randomized wives’ participation...

Competing with Logistics Clusters : Vignettes from the International Experience (anglais)

This report intends to shed light on the international experience with the development of logistics clusters in support of increased competitions in global and regional markets. It will do so through the...

Official Documents- Disbursement Letter for GPSA Grant TF0A4473 (anglais)

Vietnam - Distribution Efficiency Project : procurement plan for works and goods (anglais)

Economic partnership agreements : Does preferential access of non-LDC African countries increase (anglais)

Negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) states were started in 2000 and aim at establishing reciprocal free trade...

Armenia - Education Financing And Management Reform Project (anglais)

The economics of administering import quotas with licenses-on-demand (anglais)

This paper examines the effects of rationing import quotas by licenses-on-demand. We analyze the Nash equilibrium for a game where prizes are allocated on a prorated basis and bidding is costless. Factors...

Social funds : assessing effectiveness (anglais)

Social fund projects have been highly effective in delivering small-scale infrastructure, but less so in achieving consistently positive and significant improvements in outcomes and welfare impacts. While...

Applying growth theory across countries : what have we learned from a decade of empirical research on growth? (anglais)

The potential problem of reverse causality has been obvious to everyone. It has usually been met with the standard econometric dodge: using lagged values of slow-moving variables as instruments. But this...

Indonesia - Financial Sector Development Project (anglais)

Overall, the assessment of the project was highly unsatisfactory. Various reasons contributed to negative results, among them, prudential banking regulations were strengthened only in theory, since timely...

Egypt - Industry Projects (anglais)

Announcement of World Bank Lends Four Hundred Million US Dollars to Argentina for Financial Reform on February 16, 1993 (anglais)

This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of four hundred million US dollars for Argentina to support reforms in the financial sector, and to provide resources for Argentina’s debt...

Conformed Copy - L3526 - Financial Sector Development Project - Loan Agreement (anglais)

Announcement of Madagascar Launches Public Sector Adjustment Program on July 1, 1988 (anglais)

This press release announces credit from International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's concessionary lending affiliate, one hundred twenty-five million US dollars for Madagascar to launch...

Announcement of Brazil's Agro-Industries to Receive Long-Term Financing on June 17, 1988 (anglais)

This press release announces World Bank loan of three hundred million US dollars for Brazil to finance agro-industrial projects through the country's commercial banking system at market interest rates...

Policy based lending and the World Bank (anglais)

The Bank since its inception has been interested in the economic policies and performance of its member countries. Even as it evolved into primarily a project lending institution making loans for specific...