Documents & Reports
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Promoting Impact by Creating Markets : Management and Measurement (English)
This 100th EM Compass note explains why it is important to ‘create markets’ to promote development, and how development finance institutions and impact fund managers can draw on IFC’s Anticipated Impact...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 158120 Document Date: March 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Faye,Issa,Tran,Luyen Doan
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Where and How Slum Electrification Succeeds : A Proposal for Replication (English)
Substantial gains have been made in recent years in electrifying urban and peri-urban areas in the developing world, in partial fulfillment of the global commitment to ensure access to affordable, reliable...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 137835 Document Date: June 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dave,Rutu,Smyser,Connie,Koehrer,Fabian
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Design of a multi-stage stratified sample for poverty and welfare monitoring with multiple objectives : a Bangladesh case study (English)
This paper describes the design of a multi-stage stratified sample for the Bangladesh household income and expenditure survey 2016-17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125649 Document Date: March 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmed,Faizuddin,Roy,Dipankar,Yanez Pagans,Monica,Yoshida,Nobuo
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 100 : financial statements and the report of the independent accountants (English)
On October 7, 2016, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) council of governors adopted resolution number one hundred. It was resolved that, the Council of Governors of the Agency considers...
Document Type: Board Report Report No.: 109003 Document Date: October 7, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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The potential of digital data : far can it advance financial inclusion? : Le potentiel des donnees numeriques en matiere d'inclusion financiere (French)
This focus note highlights where and how potential benefits can be realized, recognizing there are challenges and risks. Some hold that digital data are not a full substitute for the richness of an in-person...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 95202 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Faz De Los Santos,Pedro Xavier
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The potential of digital data : far can it advance financial inclusion? (Japanese)
This focus note highlights where and how potential benefits can be realized, recognizing there are challenges and risks. Some hold that digital data are not a full substitute for the richness of an in-person...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 95202 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Faz De Los Santos,Pedro Xavier
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The potential of digital data : far can it advance financial inclusion? : El potencial de los datos digitales : hasta que punto pueden fomentar la inclusion financiera? (Spanish)
This focus note highlights where and how potential benefits can be realized, recognizing there are challenges and risks. Some hold that digital data are not a full substitute for the richness of an in-person...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 95202 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Faz De Los Santos,Pedro Xavier
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Good policies and practices on rural transport in Africa : planning infrastructure and services (English)
This publication forms part of the work of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) on identifying and promoting good policies and practices in rural transport in Africa. It provides an...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 93779 Document Date: September 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hine,John L.
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How does risk management influence production decisions? evidence from a field experiment (English)
Weather is a key source of income risk, especially in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product...
Report No.: WPS6546 Document Date: July 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cole,Shawn Allen,Gine,Xavier,Vickery,James
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Iraq - A multi-country south-south knowledge exchange on social safety nets (English)
South-South knowledge exchanges are increasingly recognized as one of the most effective learning and development tools. While it is important to facilitate such exchange of first-hand experiences and...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80249 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alkhoja,Ghassan N.,Dawani,Zaina
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Public sector management reform : toward a problem-solving approach (English)
This note sets out key ideas from recent discussions inside and outside the Bank on how donors can support governments more effectively in delivering results in Public Sector Management (PSM) reforms...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 74190 Document Date: December 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blum,Jurgen Rene,Manning, Nick,Srivastava,Vivek
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Poverty implications of agricultural and non-agricultural price distortions in Pakistan (English)
Using recent estimates of industry assistance rates, the effects of trade liberalization in the rest of the world and in Pakistan alone are analyzed using a global and a Pakistan computable general equilibrium...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55939 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cororaton,Caesar B.,Orden,David R.
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Colombia - Assisting talented students from low-income families attend tertiary education : Colombia - Apoyando a estudiantes de familias de bajos ingresos a acceder a la educacion (Spanish)
With the support of the ACCES (Acceso Con Calidad a la Educacion Superior, in Spanish) Project Colombia shifted its tertiary education policy, implementing comprehensive reforms to improve equity of tertiary...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 39512 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blom,Andreas,Cerdan-Infantes,Pedro
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Colombia - Assisting talented students from low-income families attend tertiary education (English)
With the support of the ACCES (Acceso Con Calidad a la Educacion Superior, in Spanish) Project Colombia shifted its tertiary education policy, implementing comprehensive reforms to improve equity of tertiary...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 39512 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blom,Andreas,Cerdan-Infantes,Pedro
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The link between health, social issues, and secondary education : life skills, health, and civic education (English)
This working paper is based on a literature review and country case studies in six Sub-Saharan African countries: Eritrea, Mali, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. It looks at the role of secondary...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 39168 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nesbakken,Guro,Smith, Robert,Sonn, Brenda,Wirak, Anders
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The impact of morbidity and mortality on municipal human resources and service delivery : an analysis of 3 African cities (English)
Morbidity and mortality, particularly as a result of HIV/AIDS and malaria, raise the cost of labour to municipalities, through increased absenteeism, lower productivity, higher health care and funeral...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 38551 Document Date: September 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sarzin,Zara Inga
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Gender issues in child labor (Russian)
This note reviews the available evidence on developing effective policies against child labor, outlining it requires attention to gender differences among working children. This is so because standard...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33753 Document Date: August 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Holtz, Paul [editor]
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Gender issues in child labor (English)
This note reviews the available evidence on developing effective policies against child labor, outlining it requires attention to gender differences among working children. This is so because standard...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33753 Document Date: August 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Holtz, Paul [editor]
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Gender issues in child labor (Arabic)
This note reviews the available evidence on developing effective policies against child labor, outlining it requires attention to gender differences among working children. This is so because standard...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33753 Document Date: August 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Holtz, Paul [editor]
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Gender issues in child labor : La problematique hommes-femmes dans le travail des enfants (French)
This note reviews the available evidence on developing effective policies against child labor, outlining it requires attention to gender differences among working children. This is so because standard...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33753 Document Date: August 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Holtz, Paul [editor]