Documents et rapports

Fading Away Informality by Development (anglais)

This paper focuses on the role of development in informality through higher wages and expanded production possibilities. First, it uses informal, plant-level survey data across countries to document that...

Deconstructing the Missing Middle : Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)

This paper characterizes the firm size distribution by exploiting establishment-level censuses covering both formal and informal firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper finds a "missing middle" in the employment-based...

Jobs, Access to Credit, and Informality in MENA Countries (anglais)

This paper explores the link between jobs, access to Finance, and informality. Using longitudinal firm-level data for countries in the Middle East and North Africa, it documents that jobs creation is positively...

Brazil – COVID-19 in Latin America and Caribbean : 2021 High Frequency Phone Surveys - Results Phase Two : Wave One (anglais)

Brazil has been one of the countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the region. In June 2021, it was the country with the second-highest rate of deaths per million and the fourth by the number...

Spatial Misallocation, Informality, and Transit Improvements : Evidence from Mexico City (anglais)

This paper proposes a new mechanism to explain resource misallocation in developing countries: the high commuting costs within cities that prevent workers from accessing formal employment. To test this...

Kenya/AFRICA- P151831- Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities - Procurement Plan (anglais)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Improving Access to Affordable Housing Project - P157932 - Sequence No : 02 (anglais)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Angola Statistics Project - P157671 - Sequence No : 03 (anglais)

Informal sector heterogeneity and income inequality : evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (anglais)

This paper uses 1-2-3 survey data on the Democratic Republic of Congo to analyze heterogeneity in the informal sector. It empirically identifies three types of entrepreneurs in the sector. The first group...

Simulating pension income scenarios with penCalc : an illustration for India's national pension system (anglais)

This paper sets out initial results from a new modeling exercise for Defined Contribution (DC) pensions. It develops a package called penCalc based on the open source software language R, which is popular...

India - India Low-Income Housing Finance : P119039 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 10 (anglais)

Formal informality : informal practices of formal firms as a key business constraint (Lao)

Despite strong economic growth in recent decades led by the resource-based sectors, Lao PDR facessignificant challenges, including high poverty rates and limited productivity. A highly challenging business...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Kenya Youth Employment and Opportunities - P151831 - Sequence No : 03 (anglais)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Improving Access to Affordable Housing Project - P157932 - Sequence No : 01 (anglais)

Doing business in Lao PDR : constraints to productivity (Lao)

New available data suggests that the Lao business environment is not improving, and might be deteriorating. The main constraints named by firms surveyed in the 2016 Enterprise Survey are the practices...

Congo, Democratic Republic of - Catalytic Project to Strengthen the National Statistical Institute : restructuring (anglais)

The development objective of the Catalytic Project to Strengthen the National Statistical Institute (INS) for Congo, Democratic Republic of is to strengthen the capacity of INS to generate and disseminate...

The effects of health insurance within families: experimental evidence from Nicaragua (anglais)

This paper measures the causal effects of parent enrollment into voluntary health insurance on healthcare utilization among insured and uninsured children in Nicaragua. The study utilizes a randomized...

Project Information Document (Concept Stage) - Creating a Trade in Value-Added Database for Africa - P162228 (anglais)

India - Strengthening Urban Safety Nets in India Project : Summary Note (anglais)

A social protection system that responds to a more middle income, more urban, diverse and more decentralized India is needed. India has experienced sustained growth and poverty reduction in recent years...

Madagascar - Country partnership framework for the period of FY17 - FY21 (anglais)

This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) sets out the World Bank Group’s (WBG) strategy in Madagascar for the period of FY17‐FY21. As the country has emerged from a political crisis, the CPF supports the...