Bengaluru is the information technology capital of India, often branded as the country’s Silicon Valley. The city boasts 485,000 street lights but upgrading and maintaining the infrastructure has been...
Street lighting PPPs help provide better services, improve business and public safety, and increase energy efficiency by up to seventy percent. This IFC sector note provides lessons and examples on scaling...
Why do more small firms in developing countries not use the market for professional business services like accounting, marketing, and human resource specialists? Two key reasons may be that firms lack...
This paper estimates the impact of market access liberalization in high-income countries on sub-Saharan African exports. The methodology exploits the large reduction in trade barriers that was induced...
The development objectives of Growth and Employment Project for Nigeria is to increase growth and employment in participating States. This second level restructuring requires the following changes: (i)...
Ethiopia is a low-income country with ambitious plans to become Sub-Saharan Africa’s leader in light manufacturing. The government of Ethiopia has embarked on an industrialization strategy based on the...
This study uses the latest 2011 round of Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey for the Russian Federation to take a closer look at regional-level factors influencing the business environment...
Caribbean countries face a rapidly changing trade environment, which presents both opportunities and challenges for economies highly dependent on external markets. The features of the new trade environment...
Economic reforms have altered Vietnam from one of the world's lowest income countries to a lower-middle-income country. However, since 2008, Vietnam has faced major challenges in restoring macroeconomic...
Tales from the development frontier is an important publication that presents analytical reviews and case studies that show how selected developing countries have developed light manufacturing to create...
This book on light manufacturing in Zambia is part of broader World Bank work on light manufacturing in Africa. The focus on light manufacturing, with its emphasis on labor-intensive economic activities...