Documents & Reports
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Evidence on Public Procurement from Firm-Level Surveys : Global Statistics from the World Bank Enterprise - Surveys and a Novel Public Procurement Survey Module (English)
Public procurement is a sizeable economic activity, and there is increasing attention on how it can strategically contribute to equitable and sustainable economic growth. Despite a growing academic literature...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 186664 Document Date: January 2, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cocciolo,Serena Sara Daniela,Viganola,Domenico,Doino,Ruggero
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Testing the Resilience of the Turkish Cypriot Economy : A Macroeconomic Monitoring Note - Special Issue : Enhancing Competitiveness and Promoting Economic Integration (English)
The Turkish Cypriot economy (TCe) has struggled to recover since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. With a contraction of 16.2 percent in GDP in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic first took...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 180475 Document Date: March 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rovo,Natasha,Curto,Stefano,Nebiler,Metin,Izge Arizal,Tawfik,Ehab Adel Samir,Viganola,Domenico,Artuso,Fabio,Hamit,Mertkan
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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
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The Evolving Effect of COVID-19 on the Private Sector (English)
This brief provides a descriptive analysis of the evolving effect of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on the private sector of 40 countries. It focuses on the essential aspects of business operations:...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 161002 Document Date: June 24, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Karalashvili,Nona,Viganola,Domenico
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Does Better Access to Finance Help Firms Deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic ? Evidence from Firm-Level Survey Data (English)
The advent of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a severe liquidity crunch among private firms. Yet, formal analysis of the impact of a liquidity crunch or access to finance on the performance...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9697 Document Date: June 14, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amin,Mohammad,Viganola,Domenico
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Productivity and Firm Exit during the COVID-19 Crisis : Cross-Country Evidence (English)
This paper examines whether the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits a Schumpeterian “cleansing” of less productive firms. Using firm-level data for 31 economies, the study finds that...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9671 Document Date: May 24, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Muzi,Silvia,Jolevski,Filip,Ueda,Kohei,Viganola,Domenico
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Turkish Cypriot Economy – Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic : A Path to Building Back Better – Special Issue : Improving the Effectiveness of Public Funds in Agriculture (English)
The special topic of this edition of the Macroeconomic Monitoring report focuses on the TC administration’s ‘public’ financial support to the agriculture sector. Due to the Turkish lira depreciation, the...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 159010 Document Date: March 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rovo,Natasha,Tsoungui Belinga,Vincent De Paul,Curto,Stefano,Nebiler,Metin,Arisal, Izge,Hamit,Mertkan,Badin,Maria Ines,Viganola,Domenico