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  • Institutional reform for investment and growth in South Eastern Europe (English)

    This study analyses the institutional impediments to investment and growth in SEE and suggests ‘second generation’ policy reforms to ease these constraints. Chapter one reviews the recent trends in the...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 111960 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Broadman,Harry G.,Anderson, Jim,Claessens, Stijn,Ryterman,Randi Susan,Slavova,Stefka,Vagliasindi,Maria,Andronova Vincelette,Gallina

  • African home-grown innovations take off (English)

    Over the last decade African advances in technology, especially in the home-grown mobile banking sector, have shown how innovation can contribute to economic development across the continent. By understanding...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 109456 Document Date: September 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Broadman,Harry G.

  • How to stimulate innovation by Africa’s private sector (English)

    Governments in advanced economies have historically helped spur commercial innovation, particularly as a result of spillovers from defense related research and development. In many emerging markets, however...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 109457 Document Date: September 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Broadman,Harry G.

  • Africa's silk road : China and India's new economic frontier (Chinese)

    As illustrated in Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier, the new South-South economic relations present real opportunities-as well as challenges-to African countries. They also highlight...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 46952 Document Date: September 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Broadman,Harry G.

  • Beyond Transition 18 (1) (Russian)

    EMU Enlargement: why flexibility matters, by Philipp Maier and Maarten Hendrikx. Gains from risk sharing in the EU, by Yuliya Demyanyk and Vadym Volosovych. Postponing Euro area expectations? by Tanel...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 40957 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Balcerowicz, Ewa,Broadman,Harry G.,Coolidge,Jacqueline,Demyanyk,Yuliya,Dushkevych, Natalya,Haughton, Tim,Havrylchyk, Olena,Hazans,Mihails,Hendrikx, Maarten,Jurzyk, Emilia,Kaminski, Bartlomiej,Kisunko,Gregory,Liwinski, Jacek,Lokshin,Michael M.,Maier, Philipp,Malova, Darina,Ng,Francis K. T.,Paci,Pierella,Ross, Tanel,Sajaia,Zurab,Stoilkova,Maria M.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Volosovych, Vadym,Walewski, Mateusz,Wilson,John Martin,Luo,Xubei,Yakovlev, Evgeny,Zelenyuk, Valentin,Zhuravskaya,Ekaterina

  • Beyond Transition 18 (1) (English)

    EMU Enlargement: why flexibility matters, by Philipp Maier and Maarten Hendrikx. Gains from risk sharing in the EU, by Yuliya Demyanyk and Vadym Volosovych. Postponing Euro area expectations? by Tanel...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 40957 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Balcerowicz, Ewa,Broadman,Harry G.,Coolidge,Jacqueline,Demyanyk,Yuliya,Dushkevych, Natalya,Haughton, Tim,Havrylchyk, Olena,Hazans,Mihails,Hendrikx, Maarten,Jurzyk, Emilia,Kaminski, Bartlomiej,Kisunko,Gregory,Liwinski, Jacek,Lokshin,Michael M.,Maier, Philipp,Malova, Darina,Ng,Francis K. T.,Paci,Pierella,Ross, Tanel,Sajaia,Zurab,Stoilkova,Maria M.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Volosovych, Vadym,Walewski, Mateusz,Wilson,John Martin,Luo,Xubei,Yakovlev, Evgeny,Zelenyuk, Valentin,Zhuravskaya,Ekaterina

  • Entering the Union : European accession and capacity-building priorities (English)

    The authors examine the impact of trade facilitation on bilateral trade flows. They examine trade facilitation and capacity-building priorities in 12 countries in the Europe and Central Asia region-eight...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3832 Document Date: February 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Broadman,Harry G.,Luo,Xubei,Wilson,John S.

  • Africa's silk road : China and India's new economic frontier (English)

    As illustrated in Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier, the new South-South economic relations present real opportunities-as well as challenges-to African countries. They also highlight...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 37895 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Broadman,Harry G.

  • The Russian labor market : moving from crisis to recovery (Russian)

    This report suggests measures to help Russia develop a formal, competitive labor market over the medium term. The study addresses four major questions: (1) How well has Russia been able to redress the...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 29018 Document Date: January 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Author: Andrews,Emily S.,Betcherman,Gordon,Broadman,Harry G.,Earle,John Sutherland,Kuddo,Arvo,Rashid,Mansoora,Rescanitini, Francesca,Sabirianova, Natalia,Tchetvernina,Tatyana,Zotova,Elena

  • The Russian labor market : moving from crisis to recovery (English)

    This report suggests measures to help Russia develop a formal, competitive labor market over the medium term. The study addresses four major questions: (1) How well has Russia been able to redress the...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 29018 Document Date: January 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Author: Andrews,Emily S.,Betcherman,Gordon,Broadman,Harry G.,Earle,John Sutherland,Kuddo,Arvo,Rashid,Mansoora,Rescanitini, Francesca,Sabirianova, Natalia,Tchetvernina,Tatyana,Zotova,Elena

  • Reducing structural dominance and entry barriers in Russian industry (English)

    Many industrial firms in Russia have undergone changes in ownership, but relatively few have been competitively restructured. Using survey and other data, the author suggests that much of Russian industry...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2330 Document Date: May 31, 2000 Disclosure Status: Author: Broadman,Harry G.

  • Transition 8 (5) (English)

    The green light is on - a perspective from China. A roadmap for reform. China's state sector: bleak facts and figures. China's growth path to 21st century: recommendations from the World Bank. Albania...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 17229 Document Date: October 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Author: Chi Fulin,Broadman,Harry G.,Elbirt,Carlos,Ebel,Robert D.,Hotra,Karen,Jokay,Charles Zoltan,Peteri,Gabor,Heleniak,Timothy E.,Bjornlund, Britta

  • Policy options for reform of chinese state-owned enterprises (English)

    This Discussion Paper summarizes the proceedings of a high-level international symposium on five policy option papers for the reform of Chinese state-owned enterprises, held in Beijing in June 1995. The...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP335 Document Date: June 30, 1996 Disclosure Status: Author: Broadman,Harry G.

  • Meeting the challenge of Chinese enterprise reform (English)

    This paper argues that despite China's impressive growth since the beginning of economic reform in 1978, inefficiencies still burden many of the state owned enterprises (SOEs) that comprise the core of...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP283 Document Date: April 30, 1995 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Broadman,Harry G.