Documents & Reports
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Minding the Gap : Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization (English)
This paper applies novel techniques to long-standing questions of aid effectiveness. It first replicates findings that donor finance is discernibly but weakly associated with sector outcomes in recipient...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10532 Document Date: July 31, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Goldemberg,Diana,Jordan,Luke Simon,Kenyon,Thomas
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A Puzzle with Missing Pieces : Explaining the Effectiveness of World Bank Development Projects (English)
The identification of key determinants of aid effectiveness is a long-standing question in the development community. This paper reviews the literature on aid effectiveness at the project level and then...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9884 Document Date: December 14, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ashton,Helen Louise,Friedman,Jed,Goldemberg,Diana,Hussain,Mustafa Zakir,Kenyon,Thomas,Khan,Akib,Zhou,Mo
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Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul SWAp : P120830 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 07 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR21245 Document Date: December 28, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Brazil - Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) to Strengthen Public Investment Project : restructuring (English)
The objective of the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) to Strengthen Public Investment Project for Brazil is to improve public investment planning and implementation by strengthening the capacity of the state...
Document Type: Project Paper Report No.: RES18611 Document Date: December 11, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Brazil - Strengthening Service Delivery for Growth, Poverty Reduction and Enviromental Sustainability in the State of Ceará PforR : P127463 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR15851 Document Date: November 15, 2014 Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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New voices in investment : a survey of investors from emerging countries (English)
One out of every three dollars invested abroad in 2012 was originated in multinationals from developing countries. This study sheds light on the characteristics, motivations, strategies, and needs of emerging...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 92869 Document Date: November 14, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gomez Mera,Maria Laura,Kenyon,Thomas,Margalit,Yotam M.,Reis,Jose Guilherme,Varela,Gonzalo J.
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Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul SWAp : P120830 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 04 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Document Date: August 12, 2014 Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Brazil - Strengthening Service Delivery for Growth, Poverty Reduction and Enviromental Sustainability in the State of Ceará PforR : P127463 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR12917 Document Date: March 31, 2014 Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul SWAp : P120830 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 03 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR12638 Document Date: January 8, 2014 Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul SWAp : P120830 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR9701 Document Date: April 24, 2013 Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Brazil - Quarterly knowledge report (English)
This newsletter includes the following headings: a knowledge legacy, by Makhtar Diop; Sao Paulo city study, by Kenyon, Thomas; impact of shocks and social protection: some reflections from the analysis...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 68673 Document Date: April 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Diop,Makhtar,Kenyon,Thomas,Fruttero,Anna,Lopes Mendes De Azeredo,Mauro Lopez Mendes De,Bittar,Fabio Sola,Evans,David,Kosec,Katrina L.
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Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet (Concept Stage) - Rio Grande do Sul SWAp - P120830 (English)
Document Type: Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet Document Date: November 7, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Brazil - BR Ceara Inclusive Growth (SWAp II) : P106765 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 07 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 06 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Document Date: April 9, 2011 Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Brazil - BR Ceara Inclusive Growth (SWAp II) : P106765 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 05 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Document Date: January 23, 2011 Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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How to encourage enterprise formalization : some practical hints for policymakers in Africa (English)
This policy note takes as its starting point the common view that there are benefits and costs to formal status and that formalization will occur only if entrepreneurs perceive it to be in their self-interest...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 40762 Document Date: June 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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A framework for thinking about enterprise formalization policies in developing countries (English)
What policies encourage firms to become formal? The standard approach emphasizes reducing the costs of compliance with government regulation. This is unlikely to be sufficient. Instead we need to understand...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4235 Document Date: May 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kenyon,Thomas
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Reforming the investment climate : lessons for practitioners (English)
Most people agree that a good investment climate is essential for growth and poverty reduction. Less clear is how to achieve it. Many reforms are complex, involving more than technical design and content...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3986 Document Date: August 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kenyon,Thomas,Kikeri,Sunita,Palmade,Vincent
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Reforming the investment climate: lessons for practitioners (English)
Drawing from more than 25 case studies, this book shows that reform often requires paying as much attention to dealing with the politics and institutional dimensions as to designing policy substance. While...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 37094 Document Date: June 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kenyon,Thomas,Kikeri,Sunita,Palmade,Vincent
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Reforming the investment climate: lessons for practitioners (Russian)
Drawing from more than 25 case studies, this book shows that reform often requires paying as much attention to dealing with the politics and institutional dimensions as to designing policy substance. While...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 37094 Document Date: June 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kenyon,Thomas,Kikeri,Sunita,Palmade,Vincent