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  • Artificial Intelligence Innovation in Financial Services (English)

    Artificial intelligence technologies are permeating financial services sectors around the world. The application of these technologies in emerging markets allows financial service providers to further...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 151335 Document Date: June 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Biallas,Margarete O.,Felicity O'Neill

  • Who are the poor in the developing world? (English)

    This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living less than 1.90 dollars and between 1.90 dollars and 3.10 dollars per day in 2013, based on household...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125589 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Castaneda,Andres,Doan,Thi Thuy Dung,Newhouse,David Locke,Nguyen,Minh Cong,Uematsu,Hiroki,Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De

  • Women in Development and the World Bank Group (English)

    In advance of International Women’s Day 2014, the World Bank Group Archives was taking a look at the World Bank Group’s early initiatives relating to women in development, a topic that became increasingly...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 104721 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Finding new paths for growth in Djibouti (English)

    The report posits a long-term vision for Djibouti’s economic development with specific measures that form a road map for long term, sustainable growth. The current growth model is highly capital intensive...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 75861 Document Date: March 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Benyagoub,Mehdi

  • Measuring the effect of gender-based policies on economic growth (English)

    To this day, policy makers, policy advisers, and economists in development institutions do not have any practical tools to help them to assess the impacts of policies aimed at promoting gender equality...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 70630 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Agenor,Pierre-Richard,Canuto,Otaviano

  • Does the Middle East and North Africa region experience 'conflict traps'? (English)

    The 2011 World Development Report (WDR) on 'Conflict, Security and Development' has reaffirmed global research that conflict is in many respects a self-perpetuating cycle. Put simply, factors related to...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 62232 Document Date: April 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lind,Lene Natasha,Zyck,Steven Alec

  • Why governments tax or subsidize trade : evidence from agriculture (English)

    This paper empirically explores the political-economic determinants of why governments choose to tax or subsidize trade in agriculture. The authors use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA)...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55958 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gawande,Kishore,Hoekman,Bernard M.

  • Expanding bank outreach through retail partnership : correspondent banking in Brazil (English)

    This paper explores the extent to which formal, regulated financial institutions such as banks have been able to partner with "correspondents"- commercial entities whose primary objective and business...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 36398 Document Date: June 5, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kumar,Anjali,Nair,Ajai,Parsons,Adam G.,Urdapilleta,Eduardo Martin

  • Decentralizacion de la educacion en Guatemala : gestion escolar comunitaria (Spanish)

    The National Program for the Development of Community-Administered Education (PRONADE) in Guatemala began in 1992 with the objective of improving access to education in remote areas and to stimulate the...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 35659 Document Date: February 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rojas,Juan Carlos,Valerio,Alexandria,Demas,Angela

  • Pilot commercialization of improved cookstoves in Nicaragua (English)

    The problems facing the fuel wood sector in Nicaragua can be summarized as follows: First, almost all harvest or production is based on non-sustainable forestry, with little or no regulation or enforcement...

    Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 47733 Document Date: December 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Terrado, Ernesto N., Eitel, Birgit

  • Innovation support funds for farmer-led research and development (English)

    In 2004, nine country programs involved in PROLINNOVA (Promoting Local Innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management) considered how local innovation could be enhanced...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 34345 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Killough, Scott,Water-Bayer, Ann,Wongtschowski, Mariana,van Veldhuizen, Laurens

  • Community driven development in urban upgrading (English)

    The Bank has been involved in a number of urban upgrading projects over the last three decades, which have demonstrated that quality of life in slums can be improved through realistic policies, investments...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 29926 Document Date: July 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Nitti, Rosanna, Dahiya, Bharat