Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher imports...
The development objective of the Burundi - Access to Finance to Import Strategic Commodities Project is to increase access to trade finance to allow Burundi to import critical commodities. The Project...
Garment exports from Myanmar have grown rapidly over the past decade, aided by preferential market access in key markets and relatively cheap labor. The garment industry is an important source of employment...
Ratings for the First Critical Imports Project for Albania were as follows: outcome was satisfactory, sustainability was uncertain, institutional development was modest, Borrower performance was highly...
This news release, dated May 21, 1981, announces the World Bank approved a 42 million dollars loan to Zimbabwe to finance a program of imports for the transport sector.
This news release, dated March 30, 1981, announces the World Bank and the International Development Association (IDA) approved imports program to support the rehabilitation of the manufacturing sector...
This news release, dated May 3, 1979, announces the World Bank approved a loan of 115 million dollars to help Peru meet foreign exchange requirements for high priority imports in support of an economic...
This news release, dated October 12, 1978, announces the World Bank and its soft-loan affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), will lend 20 million dollars to Guyana to provide foreign...
This news release, dated September 9, 1976, announces the World Bank and its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), will support the Second Douala Port Project in Cameroon by providing...
This press release announces on February 4, 1976, that the World Bank will support development of medium-and large-scale industries in the East-African Community through fifteen million US dollars loan...
This press release announces on May 29, 1975, that the World Bank has approved a loan of thirty million US dollars to help Kenya adjust to the deterioration in its balance of payments as a result of general...
This press release announces on December 19, 1974, that Tanzania will be able to implement its 1974-1975 economic development program with the assistance of a loan of thirty million US dollars from the...
This press release announces that the World Bank has approved on November 7, 1974, a loan of thirty million US dollars for the Private Development Corporation of the Philippines (PDCP). The loan aims to...
This press release announces that Iran's efforts to sustain the momentum of industrial growth would be assisted by a World Bank loan of fifty million US dollars to the Industrial and Mining Development...
This press release announces that the two new ports will be built in Sabah, East Malaysia, and four other ports provided with cargo handling equipment with the assistance of sixteen million one hundred...
This press release announces on May 27, 1970 that the rehabilitation of Nigeria's transportation network, aimed primarily at maintaining the flow of imports and exports, is expected to move at a faster...
The third meeting of the group of countries interested in aid to Ceylon met in Tokyo, April 18 and 19, under the Chairmanship of the World Bank.