Documents et rapports

The Platform for Collaboration on Tax : Practical Toolkit to Support the Successful Implementation by Developing Countries of Effective Transfer Pricing Documentation Requirements (anglais)

The relevance of transfer pricing to developing countries, together with the challenges faced by low-capacity or inexperienced tax administrations, has been high on the regional and global tax agenda in...

Price Controls : Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes (anglais)

The use of price controls is widespread across emerging markets and developing economies, including for food and key imported and exported commodities. Although they are sometimes used as a tool for social...

Mauritanie - Note de Politique sur le Role de la Politique de la Concurrence pour une Economie Diversifiee (français)

Global Economic Prospects, January 2020 : Slow Growth, Policy Challenges (anglais)

Global growth is expected to recover to 2.5 percent in 2020, up slightly from the post-crisis low of 2.4 percent registered last year amid weakening trade and investment, and edge up further over the forecast...

Database Platform Development for Regulating Transmission and Distribution Pricing in China : Proposed Improvements to T and D Database Platform from an International Review (anglais)

The aim of the preliminary Chinese transmission and distribution (T and D) database design is to improve the routine regulatory supervision system for T and D companies. The design seeks to improve the...

Ethiopia : Impacts of the Birr devaluation on inflation : 1 (anglais)

On October 10, 2017, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) devalued the Birr by 15 percent as pressures on the foreign exchange intensified. According to the Government, the devaluation was undertaken to...

Cigarette affordability in China : 2001-2016 (chinois)

This study investigates the affordability of cigarettes in China between 2001 and 2016. In the past two decades, China has achieved unprecedented economic growth rates. The country's per capita GDP has...

Remittance prices worldwide report (anglais)

Remittance prices worldwide (RPW) monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. Launched in September 2008, RPW remains a key tool to monitor the cost incurred by remitters when...

Estimating an equilibrium exchange rate for the Argentine Peso (anglais)

This paper assesses the equilibrium value of the Argentine peso exchange rate based on the country's economic fundamentals and compares it with the official exchange rate value. The paper estimates a behavioral...

Remittance prices worldwide report (anglais)

Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. Launched in September 2008, RPW remains a key tool to monitor the cost incurred by remitters when...

Fossil fuel subsidy and pricing policies : recent developing country experience (anglais)

The steep decline in the world oil price in the last quarter of 2014 slashed fuel price subsidies. Several governments responded by announcing that they would remove subsidies for one or more fuels and...

The market impacts of pharmaceutical product patents in developing countries : evidence from India (anglais)

In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India implemented a patent reform for pharmaceuticals that was intended to comply with the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property...

Remittance prices worldwide report (anglais)

The remittance prices worldwide (RPW) database monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. RPW was launched by the World Bank in September 2008, and remains a key tool to monitor...

Remittance prices worldwide report (anglais)

The remittance prices worldwide (RPW) database monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. RPW was launched by the World Bank in September 2008, and remains a key tool to monitor...

Remittance prices worldwide report (anglais)

The remittance prices worldwide (RPW) database monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. RPW was launched by the World Bank in September 2008, and remains a key tool to monitor...

Learning dynamics and support for economic reforms : why good news can be bad (anglais)

Support for economic reforms has often shown puzzling dynamics: many reforms that began successfully lost public support. This paper shows that learning dynamics can rationalize this paradox because the...

Turkey - Reform for competitiveness technical assistance : fostering open and efficient markets through effective competition policies (anglais)

Competition in domestic markets is critical to ensure increased international competitiveness. Firms facing more intense competitive pressures are more likely to introduce new products and upgrade existing...

Food price spikes, price insulation, and poverty (anglais)

This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions...

DECPG daily economics and financial market commentary (anglais)

Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: financial markets; high-income...

Reforming fuel pricing in an age of $100 oil (anglais)

Increases in world oil prices since 2004 have challenged consumers and oil-importing countries across the world. Oil prices temporarily fell sharply in 2009, only to triple three years later. The oil import...