Documents & Reports
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Reforming Labor Law for the Changing Nature of Work : Evidence from Mongolia (English)
This paper examines labor market regulations in Mongolia, particularly focusing on the new Labor Law enacted in January 2022. The review of the labor and minimum wage regulations suggests that the Mongolian...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 192084 Document Date: May 31, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Maho Hatayama,Batchuluun, Altantsetseg
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IFC Technology Code of Conduct : Progression Matrix - Public Draft (English)
This report presents developing artificial intelligence sustainably: toward a practical code of conduct for disruptive technologies.
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 147676 Document Date: March 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Myers,Gordon I.,Nejkov,Kiril
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Developing Artificial Intelligence Sustainably : Toward a Practical Code of Conduct for Disruptive Technologies (English)
The adoption and diffusion of artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies will play an important role in market creation and growth. Development finance institutions have a role to play in...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 147670 Document Date: March 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Estimating poverty rates in target populations : an assessment of the simple poverty scorecard and alternative approaches (English)
The performance of the simple poverty scorecard is compared against the performance of established regression-based estimators. All estimates are benchmarked against observed poverty status based on household...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125523 Document Date: August 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Diamond,Alexis,Gill,Michael,Rebolledo Dellepiane,Miguel Angel,Skoufias,Emmanuel,Vinha,Katja Pauliina,Xu,Yiqing
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1962 Presidential Transition – Eugene Black to George Woods (English)
Eugene Black speaks with George Woods who succeeded him as fourth President of the World Bank, International Development Association, and Chairman of the International Finance Corporation. The two portraits...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 104716 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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The Palestinian Information Technology Association of Companies (PITA) : moving forward on information and communications technology (ICT) and innovation (English)
The economy of the Palestinian territories, hampered by years of conflict, occupation, and insecurity remains dependent on foreign aid and the public sector remains the largest employer. Jobs are too few...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 75217 Document Date: January 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Abukumail,Ali H.
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Private activity in infrastructure in East Asia and the Pacific slows down (English)
In 2011, 85 new infrastructure projects reached financial or contractual closure in lower and upper-middle income countries in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region: China (63), Indonesia (1), Lao...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 84027 Document Date: September 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Verink,Bastiaan Johan
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A new look at microfinance apexes (English)
This paper uses the shorthand term 'microfinance' to refer to financial services for low-income people. Apex facilities exist for other sectors besides microfinance for instance, lending to exporters or...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 71311 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Forster,Sarah Jacqueline,Duflos,Eric Bertrand Pierre,Rosenberg,Richard
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A new look at microfinance apexes : Una nueva mirada a las instituciones de segundo piso dedicadas a las microfinanzas (Spanish)
This paper uses the shorthand term 'microfinance' to refer to financial services for low-income people. Apex facilities exist for other sectors besides microfinance for instance, lending to exporters or...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 71311 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Forster,Sarah Jacqueline,Duflos,Eric Bertrand Pierre,Rosenberg,Richard
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Migration, taxation, and inequality (English)
International migration is intimately intertwined with issues of taxation, inequality and public welfare benefits, both in home and destination countries. In home countries the emigration of workers, especially...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 68486 Document Date: May 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mohapatra,Sanket,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca,Ratha,Dilip Kumar
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Agricultural protection growth in Europe, 1870-1969 (English)
Dramatic changes took place in agricultural policies in Europe in the 19th and 20th century. In the 1860s European nations agreed on a series of trade agreements which spread free trade across the continent...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55954 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Swinnen,Johan F. M.
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 80 : election of Directors (English)
On August 1, 2008, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number eighty. It was resolved that: (i) the 2008 regular election of Directors should take place...
Document Type: Board Report Report No.: 82453 Document Date: August 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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The Germany-Serbia remittance corridor: challenges of establishing a formal money transfer system (English)
This report provides an overview of remittance flows from Germany to Serbia and analyzes why a large part of remittance transfers take place outside financial institutions. The study presents a series...
Document Type: Other Financial Sector Study Report No.: 36338 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Barberis,Corrado,De Luna-Martinez,Jose,Endo,Isaku
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Gestion en pro de resultados : seguimiento a cargo de la sociedad civil en la Republica Dominicana (Spanish)
Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s, a series of unfortunate events drove the Dominican Republic in 2003, to a rapid decline in its socioeconomic...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 34643 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carlson,Samuel C.,John-Abraham,Indu
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Gestion en pro de resultados : seguimiento a cargo de la sociedad civil en la Republica Dominicana : Managing for results : civil society monitoring in the Dominican Republic (English)
Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s, a series of unfortunate events drove the Dominican Republic in 2003, to a rapid decline in its socioeconomic...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 34643 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carlson,Samuel C.,John-Abraham,Indu
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What makes FDI work? A panel analysis of the growth effect of FDI in Africa (English)
A panel analysis of the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth is conducted using data from 47 African countries over the last two decades (1980-2000). Overall, the analysis shows...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 33119 Document Date: February 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lumbila,Kevin N.
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Reforming intergovernmental fiscal relations in the Czech Republic (English)
The Czech Republic has largely overcome the challenges associated with its legacy of socialism, the 1993 breakup of Czechoslovakia, and its transition to a market economy. In addition, the country's evolving...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 30196 Document Date: October 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Martinez-Vazquez,Jorge,Oliveira, João do Carmo
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Case study 4 - Poland : participation in macroeconomic policy making and reform (English)
In January 1999, Poland launched a new pension system that was the result of 5-6 years of broad outreach campaigns and complex negotiations within the government and between the government and key stakeholder...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 27556 Document Date: March 1, 2003
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The evolution of science and technology : Latin America and the Caribbean in comparative perspective : The evolution of science and technology: Latin America and the Caribbean in comparative perspective (English)
This study focuses on the evolution of science and technology in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Extensive empirical evidence lends support to the proposition that the ability to innovate, develop...
Document Type: LAC Human & Social Development Group Paper Series Report No.: 32471 Document Date: December 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hansen,Thomas Nikolaj,Agapitova,Natalia,Holm-Nielsen,Lauritz B.,Vukmirovic,Ognjenka Goga
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Uganda - Adjustment operations in support of education (English)
In a bold effort to achieve Universal Primary Education (UPE) by 2000, the Government of Uganda decided in 1996 to remove primary school fees for up to four children in each family (of whom two should...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 29918 Document Date: September 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Murphy,Patrick D.