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  • 2021 Results in the Latin America and Caribbean Region (English)

    This book showcases the many ways in which the World Bank is pushing the medium-term sustainable development agenda forward while dealing with the pressing health emergency response and the economic and...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 168495 Document Date: April 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fien-Helfman,Samantha Abigail,Boulanger,Susan

  • March 2021 Update to the Global Database of Shared Prosperity : What’s New (English)

    Shared prosperity is the World Bank’s second Twin Goal, introduced in 2013. It is defined as the growth in household per capita income or consumption of the poorest 40 percent of the population. The Global...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 157748 Document Date: March 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Yang,Judy,Nguyen,Minh Cong

  • Uganda Economic Update 16th Edition : Investing in Uganda’s Youth (English)

    Uganda’s real GDP grew at 2.9 percent in FY20, less than half the 6.8 percent recorded in FY19, due to the effects of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis, and is expected to grow at a similar level in FY21...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 154653 Document Date: December 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Walker,Richard Ancrum,Stucka,Tihomir,Sebudde,Rachel K.,Atamanov,Aziz,Myers,Cara Ann

  • International Tax Reform, Digitalization, and Developing Economies (English)

    While significant progress has been made in international tax cooperation, the interests of developing economies require greater priority and attention. This paper considers policy options that are currently...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 142256 Document Date: October 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Clavey,Colin John,Leigh Pemberton,Jonathan,Loeprick,Jan,Verhoeven,Marinus

  • Rising Uncertainties (English)

    Improving the efficiency and equity of public spending and strengthening revenue mobilization remains a priority in all Western Balkan countries. Public sector wage bills and pensions constitute the largest...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 142424 Document Date: October 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias,Kikoni,Edith

  • Using Carbon Revenues (Vol. 1 of 2) (English)

    Carbon pricing is increasingly recognized as an important source of government revenue. Carbon revenues can be crucial in supporting cost-effective climate mitigation, industrial competitiveness and other...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 140766 Document Date: August 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Postic,Sébastien,Métivier,Clément,Alberola, Emilie

  • Using Carbon Revenues (Vol. 2 of 2) : Annex to Report : Case studies (English)

    Carbon pricing is increasingly recognized as an important source of government revenue. Carbon revenues can be crucial in supporting cost-effective climate mitigation, industrial competitiveness and other...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 140766 Document Date: August 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Postic,Sébastien,Métivier,Clément,Alberola, Emilie

  • Maximizing Finance for Development in Egypt's Energy Sector (English)

    After the Arab Spring, the Government of Egypt was facing growing fiscal pressures. Energy was underpriced, fossil fuels subsidies had increased dramatically, and the government had built up arrears to...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 141391 Document Date: June 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Wage Bill and Pay Reform : A First Glance and a Look Forward (English)

    Reforming wage bills can significantly impact a country’s fiscal outlook, public sector performance, the health of its labor market, and private sector development. The public sector represents an average...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 136843 Document Date: May 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Acker,Wouter,Hasnain,Zahid

  • The Future of Work : Race with-not against-the Machine (English)

    Will the revolution in digital and information technologies make us obsolete? Will jobs be lost and never replaced? Will wages drop to intolerable levels? History and economic theory and evidence suggest...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 129680 Document Date: August 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chuah,Lay Lian,Loayza,Norman V.,Schmillen,Achim Daniel

  • Expanding electricity to low-income customers in Liberia (English)

    Much of Liberia’s infrastructure to generate, transmit, and distribute electric power was destroyed during 15 years of civil conflict. At the time the project was being prepared in 2009, most of the population...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 129217 Document Date: June 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Healthy and safe working environment (English)

    This note provides guidance to investors and governments on good practice in occupational health and safety policies, programs, procedures and processes, a matter of critical importance given thathalf...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 124291 Document Date: March 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Jobs Diagnostic : Tanzania (English)

    Tanzania has just entered a phase of growing dependency rates that will put pressure on job creation so that the larger number of dependents do not fall into poverty. However, the new millions of jobs...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 135247 Document Date: January 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Petracco,Carly Kathleen,Sanchez-Reaza,Javier

  • Revisiting the evidence on the cyclicality of fiscal policy across the World (English)

    A large and growing literature has argued that industrialized and developing countries behave very differently in relation to their fiscal policy stances over the business cycle. In this paper, the authors...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 108904 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carneiro,Francisco Galrao,Garrido,Leonardo

  • Integrating Adaptive Learning in Grant-Making : The Case of the GPSA (English)

    The Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) is recognized as a leading voice in the implementation of adaptive learning principles in development and in the transparency and accountability...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 154678 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Poli,Maria,Guerzovich,Maria Florencia