Documents et rapports

Long-Term and Lasting Impacts of Personal Initiative Training on Entrepreneurial Success (anglais)

A randomized experiment in Togo found that personal initiative training for small businesses resulted in large and significant impacts for both men and women after two years (Campos et al, 2017). This...

Connecting Economies, Empowering Women : Regional Trade and Connectivity in South Asia (anglais)

The World Bank’s South Asia Regional Integration and Engagement Program supports transboundary cooperation for greater connectivity, cross-border trade, climate resilience, and human development in the...

Connecting People to Projects : A New Approach to Measuring Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa (anglais)

Innovations to date in detecting women’s employment have focused primarily on improving individual-level questions. This paper explores an alternative approach, using data on household enterprises and...

Bangladesh - Sustainable Microenterprise and Resilient Transformation Project : Making Micro-Enterprise Sector Clean and Climate-Resilient (anglais)

Bangladesh is known for its pioneering approaches that support Micro Enterprises (MEs) to alleviate poverty. Microenterprises contribute up to 25 percent of GDP and provide 56 percent of jobs in the country...

Burundi - Jobs and Economic Transformation Project (anglais)

The development objective of Jobs and Economic Transformation Project for Burundi is to improve Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSMEs’) access to finance, especially for MSMEs owned by women and refugees...

Does Informality Depress Investments and Job Recovery ? Firm-Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis in South Asia (anglais)

Using three rounds of the World Bank's Business Pulse Surveys in South Asia, this paper quantifies the relationship between informality and firms' investment and employment decisions. Accounting for multidimensionality...

Masters of Disasters : The Heterogeneous Effects of a Crisis on Micro-Sized Firms (anglais)

Most crises have a disproportionately larger negative effect on micro-sized firms. Yet, the heterogeneity of impact within micro-sized firms is lesser known. Using five waves of the World Bank's Business...

Culturally Sensitive Finance in Afghanistan : Shariah Compliant Small Loan Guarantees (anglais)

In Afghanistan, micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) account for 80 percent of business activity, but less than 5 percent use formal banking services, representing a 4.7 billion dollars financing...

Digital Technology Uses among Microenterprises : Why Is Productive Use So Low across Sub-Saharan Africa ? (anglais)

This paper explores the use of digital technologies, their association with performance outcomes, and the main constraints to greater use among microenterprises. The study uses a sample of more than 3,300...

South Asia - Rooftop Solar Guarantee Facility for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Project (anglais)

Report Assessing the Impacts of Tax Optimization and Bunching in MEs and Self-employed and Legal Entities Responses to Size-based Tax Rates in Lithuania : Output 1 and 2 (anglais)

This report corresponds to the Outputs 1 and 2 of the TSI Project 20LT09: Micro Enterprises and Self-employed Tax Regulatory Assessment for Removing Hurdles to Growth in Lithuania. The report provides...

Understanding Informality : Comprehensive Business-Level Data and Descriptive Findings (anglais)

This paper introduces and provides a descriptive analysis of data from more than 15,000 detailed interviews of representative samples of informal businesses operating in 24 cities across seven countries...

Missing Information : Why Don’t More Firms Seek Out Business Advice? (anglais)

Seeking out business advice, for example through classroom training or consulting, can be a profitable investment. Previous research has found that obtaining business advice through classroom training...

Engagement of Micro and Small Enterprises in Workplace-Based Learning in South Africa (anglais)

Workplace-based learning (WBL) increases the labor market relevance of skills development programs and the employability of their graduates. The advantages of WBL for enriching the learning experience...

No Small Business - A Segmented Approach to Better Finance for Micro and Small Enterprises (anglais)

Nearly half a billion micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in emerging markets provide livelihood opportunities for millions of low-income populations around the world. Access to relevant, affordable, and...

Informal Microenterprises in Senegal : Performance Outcomes and Possible Avenues to Boost Productivity and Jobs (anglais)

This paper explores differences and similarities across formal and informal microenterprises in Senegal. It uses a new national sample of more than 500 firms, of which two-thirds are informal and over...

Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) Finance - Examining the Impact Narrative (anglais)

Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) are a vital part of the livelihoods and resilience strategies of poor households across emerging markets. There is evidence that lack of access to finance is one of the...

Argentina - Access to Longer Term for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Project (espagnol)

The objective of the Access to Longer Term for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Project are to improve access to, and strengthen the framework for the provision of, longer term finance for eligible...

Research digest newsletter Vol. 9 (No. 3) (arabe)

In this issue: The State as Employer of Last Resort in Postrevolution Tunisia; What Drives Weak Job Creation in Tunisia?; Macroinsurance for Microenterprises; Testing the Effectiveness of Job Matching...