Documents et rapports
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Bayesian Impact Evaluation with Informative Priors : An Application to a Colombian Management and Export Improvement Program (anglais)
Policymakers often test expensive new programs on relatively small samples. Formally incorporating informative Bayesian priors into impact evaluation offers the promise to learn more from these experiments...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10274 Date du document: 9 janvier 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Iacovone,Leonardo,Mckenzie,David J.,Meager,Rachael
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Capacity Building as a Route to Export Market Expansion : A Six-Country Experiment in the Western Balkans∗ (anglais)
The limited market size of many small emerging economies is a key constraint to the growth of innovative small and medium enterprises. Exporting offers a potential solution, but firms may struggle to locate...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10256 Date du document: 7 décembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cusolito,Ana Paula,Darova,Ornella,Mckenzie,David J.
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The Promise of Fintech for Micro and Small Enterprises (anglais)
This report aims to bring some order to the chaotic landscape of fintech companies that serve micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Over the past two years, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) has...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 183684 Date du document: 1 décembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hommes,Martin,Sotiriou,Alexander Giorgios,Kruijff,David Constantijn,Sawhney,Swati,Kumaraswamy,Sai Krishna,Kiamba,Elizabeth Munee
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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...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 173910 Date du document: 13 juillet 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Franz,Jutta,Dulvy,Elizabeth Ninan,Marock, Carmel
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Beyond Political Connections : A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Firm-level Political Influence in 41 Economies (anglais)
This paper considers the political influence of private firms. While such influence is frequently discussed, there is limited analysis of how firms combine political interactions, and under what conditions...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10119 Date du document: 5 juillet 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Francis,David C.,Kubinec ,Robert
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India - Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Emergency Response Project (anglais)
Ratings for the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Emergency Response Project for India were as follows: overall outcome, relevance of prior actions, achievement of objectives (efficacy), and...
Type de document: Bilan de fin d’exécution et de résultats Numéro du rapport: ICR5637 Date du document: 23 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank
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Management Practices and the Partial Government Ownership of Firms in the Middle East and North Africa Region (anglais)
A wealth of evidence has shown the positive effects of better management practices on firms. More recent evidence has highlighted that ownership matters for several developing and advanced economies. However...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10062 Date du document: 8 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Islam,Asif Mohammed,Gatti,Roberta V.
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Two Sides of Gender : Sex, Power, and Adolescence (anglais)
Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goal...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10072 Date du document: 1 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Shah,Manisha,Seager,Jennifer,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Goldstein,Markus P.
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A Few Good Masks : Evidence from Mask Manufacturing in Rwanda during the COVID-19 Pandemic (anglais)
Did increases in mask supply slow the spread of COVID-19? Rwanda licensed and incentivized textile manufacturers to produce high-quality masks at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper exploits...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9993 Date du document: 4 avril 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Byrne,Kieran Thomas,Kondylis,Florence,Loeser,John Ashton,Mukama,Denis
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Kosovo Country Economic Memorandum : Boosting Foreign Direct Investment (anglais)
Foreign direct investment (FDI) can bring many benefits to Kosovo’s economy, creating more and better jobs and spurring greater and more resilient economic growth. Many transition economies have used FDI...
Type de document: Mémorandum économique sur un pays Numéro du rapport: 168100 Date du document: 31 octobre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedlicka,Harald,Krajcovicova,Jana,Liu,Yan-000529044,Dayo Ojaleye,Rogatschnig,Zenia Ann
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Global economic prospects, January 2015 : having fiscal space and using it (Vol. 3 of 3) : Statistical Annex (anglais)
Global growth again disappointed in 2014 but a lackluster recovery is underway, with increasingly divergent prospects in major economies. Looking ahead, growth is expected to rise slowly, supported by...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 93690 Date du document: 13 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: World Bank
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Albania - Poverty & shared prosperity at a glance (anglais)
This brief on Albania displays the trends, performance, demographics, contributors, and national data related to poverty and prosperity development.
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 91468 Date du document: 1 septembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Creating Opportunities for Firms : Findings from the Investment Climate Assessment (khmer)
The Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC) new five-year Rectangular Strategy III (RS III) continues to prioritize the business environment as a means of diversifying exports and increasing value-added in...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 92599 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Enterprise surveys : Tanzania country profile 2013 (anglais)
The enterprise surveys focus on the many factors that shape the business environment. The country profile for Tanzania is based on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the World Bank. The enterprise...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 92456 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Enterprise surveys : Tajikistan country profile 2013 (anglais)
The enterprise surveys focus on the many factors that shape the business environment. The country profile for Tajikistan is based on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the World Bank. The enterprise...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 92455 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Sustainable Banking with the Poor - Estudios de Casos en Microfinanzas : Guatemala - El Caso de las Coo Pera Tivas de Credito Union Popular y UPA (espagnol)
Most people in developing countries lack access to formal financial services. After decades of experimentation in a multitude of credit projects, microfinance, a "new" field, emerged to respond to this...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 189124 Date du document: 1 avril 1999 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Almeyda,Gloria,Branch, Brian
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Sustainable Banking with the Poor - An Inventory of Microfinance Institutions in East, Central, and South Africa (anglais)
With the growing interest among donors, governments and development practitioners in the merits of microfinance as a tool for reducing poverty, it has become increasingly apparent that there is a need...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 189271 Date du document: 1 janvier 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fidler, Peter,Paxton, Julia