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  • Standing out from the herd : an economic assessment of tourism in Kenya (English)

    In recent years, the prospects of Kenya’s tourism industry have been clouded by a perfect storm of misfortunes – insecurity, growing global competition, and unsustainable tourism development. It is in...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: AUS16758 Document Date: September 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sanghi,Apurva,Damania,Richard,Manji,Farah Noorali Mohan,Mogollon,Maria Paulina

  • Shifting Kenya's private sector into higher gear : a trade and competitiveness agenda (English)

    Shifting Kenya’s private sector into higher gear: a trade and competitiveness agenda’ was born out of the World Bank’s Trade and Competitiveness (T&C) Global Practice recent stock taking of its work in...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 105194 Document Date: April 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mogollon,Maria Paulina,Kojucharov,Nikola Denchev,Dowdall,Georgia Frances Isabelle,Twagira,Frank Abner,Begazo Gomez,Tania Priscilla,Adamali,Aref,Cirera,Xavier,Dihel,Nora Carina,Eliasz,Toni Kristian,Kimani,Markus Njehiah,Hughes Malinska,Jana,Mugo,Richard Wamutitu,Ochieng,Sarah Ruth,Rahman,Aun Ali

  • Kenya - Country economic memorandum : from economic growth to jobs and shared prosperity (English)

    The Kenya CEM has five main messages. First, Kenya has performed well in the past decade in terms of economic growth, and modern services are behind the acceleration of growth. Expansion in these services...

    Document Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report No.: 103822 Document Date: March 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Handjiski,Borko,Sanghi,Apurva,Bogoev,Jane,Larbi,George Addo,Angelique,Umutesi,Randa,John,Kiringai,Jane Wangui,Chege,Patrick Nderitu,Whimp, Kathy,Gubbins,Paul Michael,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Farole, Tom,Nishiuchi,Toru,Battaile,William G.,Van Doorn,Ralph,Saez,Juan Sebastian,Hollweg,Claire Honore,Cirera,Xavier,Mogollon,Maria Paulina,Dowdall,Georgia Frances Isabelle,Onder,Harun

  • Rwanda's new companies : an overview of registrations, taxes, employment, and exports (English)

    The Government of Rwanda has introduced several reforms since 2009 that have significantly improved the domestic business environment. One of the reforms is the one-stop shop for business registration...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7527 Document Date: December 30, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Savini Zangrandi,Michele,Mogollon,Maria Paulina

  • Kenya - Leather industry : diagnosis, strategy, and action plan (English)

    In 2014, Kenya’s Ministry of Industrialization requested technical assistance from the World Bank to conduct competitiveness assessments and develop competitiveness strategies for four key industries:...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 99485 Document Date: June 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hansen, Eric Rolf,Moon, Young,Mogollon,Maria Paulina

  • Furniture industry in Kenya : situational analysis and strategy (English)

    The Government of Kenya recognizes that the performance of the furniture sector is crucial both to employment and growth in the country. The Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise Development (MOIED)...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 100381 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Helsinki, Creapo Oy,,Ahveninen,Harri,Nganga, Stephen Irura,Muga, Meshack Odera,Mogollon,Maria Paulina,Dowdall,Georgia Frances Isabelle,Manji,Farah Noorali Mohan

  • Kenya apparel and textile industry : diagnosis, strategy and action plan (English)

    Kenya’s textile and apparel sector has the potential to play a key role in anchoring the country’s deeper movement into middle income status and in serving as a source of gainful employment for its fast...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 99480 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Konishi,Yasuo,Mogollon,Maria Paulina,Adamali,Aref,Ramakrishnan,Karuna,Barma,Mustansir

  • Labor competency certifications in commercial occupations : a literature review (English)

    Firms generally seek to acquire a competent and stable workforce, as well as to maintain and upgrade the aggregate knowledge and skills of their workers at the lowest possible cost. In doing so, they routinely...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 61696 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Crawford,Michael F.,Mogollon,Maria Paulina

  • Reviews of national policies for education : tertiary education in Chile (English)

    Tertiary education in Chile has been transformed radically over the past 20 years. As recently as 1990, tertiary education was an elite system centered on a handful of traditional universities which served...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 52753 Document Date: December 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Crawford,Michael F.,Mogollon,Maria Paulina