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  • Accelerating Gender Equality Through Reforming Legal Frameworks (English)

    This thematic note emphasizes the role of laws and regulations in safeguarding women’s economic opportunities, for the purpose of informing the update of the World Bank Group’s Gender Strategy. The note...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 182817 Document Date: June 14, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elefante,Marina,Hasan,Tazeen,Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Mazoni Silva Martins,Natalia,Trumbic,Tea

  • Gendered Laws and Women’s Financial Inclusion (English)

    This paper documents the relationship between legal gender equality and the use of financial services, using individual-level data from 148 developed and developing economies. The analysis, which combines...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10282 Document Date: January 24, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Perrin,Caroline Sabine Marie,Hyland,Marie Caitriona

  • Gendered Laws, Informal Origins, and Subsequent Performance (English)

    This research explores the relationship between laws that discriminate on the basis of gender and the probability that a female-owned business begins operating in the informal sector. This is achieved...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9766 Document Date: August 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Islam,Asif Mohammed

  • Female-Owned Firms during the COVID-19 Crisis (English)

    This brief use firm-level data collected between May 2020 and May 2021 in 41 countries, to provide descriptive evidence on the differential effect of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis on female-...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 162280 Document Date: July 29, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Karalashvili,Nona,Muzi,Silvia,Viganola,Domenico

  • Making It Big : Why Developing Countries Need More Large Firms (English)

    Economic and social progress requires a diverse ecosystem of firms that play complementary roles. Making It Big: Why Developing Countries Need More Large Firms constitutes one of the most up-to-date assessments...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 153025 Document Date: September 17, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ciani,Andrea,Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Karalashvili,Nona,Keller,Jennifer L.,Ragoussis,Alexandros,Tran,Trang Thu

  • Gendered Laws (English)

    This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9080 Document Date: December 17, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Djankov,Simeon,Goldberg,Pinelopi Koujianou

  • Are Management Practices Failing or Aiding the Private Sector in South America? (English)

    An expanding body of literature has shown that better management practices can offer significant boosts to firms' productivity; this research illustrates that firms in South America are no exception. Using...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8783 Document Date: March 19, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Francis,David C.,Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis

  • Uncharted Waters : The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability (Vol. 1 of 2) (English)

    The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces, burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 119840 Document Date: October 24, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Damania,Richard,Desbureaux, Sébastien,Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Moore,Scott Michael,Rodella,Aude-Sophie,Russ,Jason Daniel,Zaveri,Esha Dilip

  • Uncharted Waters : The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (Portuguese)

    The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces, burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 119840 Document Date: October 24, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Damania,Richard,Desbureaux, Sébastien,Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Moore, Scott,Rodella,Aude-Sophie,Russ,Jason Daniel,Zaveri,Esha Dilip

  • Uncharted Waters : The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (French)

    The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces, burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 119840 Document Date: October 24, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Damania,Richard,Desbureaux, Sébastien,Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Moore, Scott,Rodella,Aude-Sophie,Russ,Jason Daniel,Zaveri,Esha Dilip

  • Uncharted Waters : The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (Spanish)

    The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces, burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 119840 Document Date: October 24, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Damania,Richard,Desbureaux, Sébastien,Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Moore,Scott Michael,Rodella,Aude-Sophie,Russ,Jason Daniel,Zaveri,Esha Dilip

  • Uncharted Waters : The New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (Arabic)

    The 21st century will witness the collision of two powerful forces, burgeoning population growth, together with a changing climate. With population growth, water scarcity will proliferate to new areas...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 119840 Document Date: October 24, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Damania,Richard,Desbureaux, Sébastien,Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Moore,Scott Michael,Rodella,Aude-Sophie,Russ,Jason Daniel,Zaveri,Esha Dilip

  • Capital adjustment and the optimal fuel choice (English)

    This paper analyzes the important, yet often ignored, link between capital adjustment and the choice of fuels used by manufacturing firms. A novel econometric framework, which explicitly incorporates heterogeneous...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7857 Document Date: October 11, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Steinbuks,Jevgenijs