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  • Changes to the Extrapolation Method for Global Poverty Estimation (English)

    This technical note summarizes changes to how the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) lines up survey-based estimates of poverty to a common reference year. The prior line-up method assumed that welfare...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 188330 Document Date: March 27, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Newhouse,David Locke

  • Monitoring Poverty and Equity for Development Effectiveness (English)

    Monitoring progress towards the World Bank Group's (WBG) goals, eradicating poverty and boosting shared prosperity, is essential to adjust the Bank's portfolio investment decisions and to effectively implement...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 153750 Document Date: October 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pape,Utz Johann,Yoshida,Nobuo,Malgioglio,Silvia

  • Jobs Challenges in Slavonia, Croatia – A Subnational Labor Market Assessment (English)

    A thriving region until the early 1990s, Slavonia, the eastern region of Croatia, has been confronted with stagnation and decline, ageing and outmigration as well as impoverishment ever since. This followed...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 140884 Document Date: July 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Christiaensen,Luc,Ferre,Celine,Ivica, Rubil,Matkovic,Teo,Sharafudheen,Tara

  • Women Workers in Malaysia’s Private Sector (English)

    This note analyzes various issues related to women workers in Malaysia’s formal private sector. Using the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys data, the proportion of women among all workers in Malaysia is...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 138330 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amin,Mohammad,Mayoral,Amanda

  • Russia economic report : The long journey to recovery (English)

    Russia’s anticipated economic recovery was delayed. In 2015 the Russian economy began its difficult adjustment to the severe global oil-price shock and the imposition of economic sanctions in 2014. The...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 104825 Document Date: April 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Psychometrics as a tool to improve access to credit (English)

    Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often face greater credit constraints than large firms because they lack audited financial statements and other information about their operations, and as a result...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 104019 Document Date: March 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arráiz,Irani,Bruhn,Miriam,Stucchi,Rodolfo Mario

  • East African Mediation (English)

    The primary focus of the Bank today is poverty alleviation. Yet the Bank also has performed many other functions in the course of its work. One of the lesser-known is that of mediation. In this excerpt...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 104667 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Energy subsidies reform in Jordan : welfare implications of different scenarios (English)

    Facing a fiscal crisis, Jordan initiated substantial petroleum subsidy reforms in 2012. The government has also long contemplated how to cut electricity subsidies, which surpass the fiscal burdens imposed...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125605 Document Date: June 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Atamanov,Aziz,Jellema,Jon Robbert,Serajuddin,Umar

  • Company in distress? : Directors needn't be - mitigating risks at the Board (English)

    Investors see value in nominating members to the boards of companies they have invested in. Through board members, they can help improve the company's operations, define corporate strategy, adjust inefficiencies...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 95381 Document Date: January 29, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Miller,Kalina Boyanova,Rechden,Claudio N.

  • How to push efficiency enhancing reforms at the port of Dar Es Salaam? (English)

    The Port of Dar Es Salaam, the second largest in East Africa after Mombasa, is one of the least efficient on the planet, hindering trade and economic expansion not just for Tanzania but also for neighboring...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 76220 Document Date: February 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Morisset,Jacques,Moret, Charles,Regolo,Julie

  • Vietnam - Techcombank energy efficiency loan (English)

    The main barriers preventing Vietnamese enterprises (especially small and medium enterprises, or SMEs) towards cleaner and more efficient production practices are access to finance, and access to quality...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 76165 Document Date: August 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • The labor market policy reform agenda in MENA (English)

    Despite positive economic growth in recent years, basic labor market outcomes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remained stagnant and have only improved slightly in the past 10 years. A number...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 62245 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Quality assurance in higher education : a comparison of eight systems (English)

    Quality in higher education is difficult to measure. Incentives to improve (or not) are often different for public and private institutions, and approaches to quality assurance have to be adapted to different...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 62251 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hovde, Kate,Bin Mahfooz,Sara,Weber,Luc

  • Developing an African offshoring industry : the case of Nigeria (English)

    The purpose of this note is to raise awareness of Nigeria's potential as an African offshoring hub, and it is aimed primarily toward policy makers, potential private sector investors, and development partners...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 57150 Document Date: October 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Radwan,Ismail,Strychacz,Nicholas Graham Reiss