Documents & Reports
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What African Industrial Development : Can Learn from East Asian Successes - The Role of Complexity and Economic Fitness (English)
The path to becoming an advanced economy can be a difficult one that is fraught with obstacles, traps, and frequent reversals. Yet in the past half century several East Asian nations have completed the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 154593 Document Date: August 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lin,Justin,Cader,Masud Z.,Pietronero,Luciano
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Celebrating the International Finance Corporation's 60th anniversary (English)
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's private sector arm. Created in 1956 in response to perceived capital limitations and structural challenges...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 121398 Document Date: November 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Heterogeneous returns to income diversification : evidence from Nigeria (English)
This paper investigates the impact of income diversification on farming households’ welfare in Nigeria on two rounds of Nigeria general household survey-panel, namely 2010-2011 and 2012-2013. The study...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125595 Document Date: November 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bertoni,Eleonora,Corral Rodas,Paul Andres,Molini,Vasco,Siwatu,Gbemisola Oseni
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Water and sewerage sector : private activity in Brazil spurs investments by 50 percent in 2012 (English)
In 2012, 32 new water and sewerage projects reached financial or contractual closure in nine lower- and upper-middle income countries. There were eleven projects in Brazil, fourteen projects in China...
Report No.: 115126 Document Date: September 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Eerd,Robbert
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Microfinance and mobile banking : blurring the lines? : Microfinance et banque mobile : vers une approche integree? (French)
In January 2012 a new banking business was about to emerge in the Philippines. After being in the wholesale microfinance lending business for two years, BanKO (which is licensed as a savings and thrift...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80649 Document Date: August 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hanouch,Michel,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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Microfinance and mobile banking : blurring the lines? (English)
In January 2012 a new banking business was about to emerge in the Philippines. After being in the wholesale microfinance lending business for two years, BanKO (which is licensed as a savings and thrift...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80649 Document Date: August 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hanouch,Michel,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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Microfinance and mobile banking : blurring the lines? : Microfinanzas y banca móvil : ¿Desaparecen las diferencias? (Spanish)
In January 2012 a new banking business was about to emerge in the Philippines. After being in the wholesale microfinance lending business for two years, BanKO (which is licensed as a savings and thrift...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80649 Document Date: August 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hanouch,Michel,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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Developing micro, small and medium enterprises in Jordan : the route to shared prosperity (English)
The Arab uprisings and the global financial and economic slowdown have negatively impacted the Jordanian economy and highlighted demands for a more level economic playing field and equity in access to...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80242 Document Date: March 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nasr,Sahar Ahmed,Abd, Yara El
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Chasing the shadows : how significant is shadow banking in emerging markets? (English)
Broadly defined as credit intermediation involving entities and activities outside the regular banking system, shadow banking raises important policy concerns. Given significant challenges with data availability...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 72445 Document Date: September 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ghosh,Swati R.,Gonzalez Del Mazo,Ines,Otker-Robe, Inci
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The AMAL Program : "hope" for unemployed youth in the MENA region (English)
To respond to high unemployment rates among youth (often educated entrants to the labor market), many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have designed and implemented programs...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 64501 Document Date: August 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.,Leon Solano,Rene Antonio
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 88 : financial statements and the report of the independent accountants (English)
On October 8, 2010, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number eighty- eight. It was resolved that the Council of Governors of the Agency consider...
Document Type: Board Report Report No.: 82461 Document Date: October 8, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Do trade agreeements reduce the volatility of agricultural distortions? (English)
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which trade agreements affect agricultural trade policy volatility. Using a new panel database compiled as part of the World Bank's agricultural...
Report No.: 55961 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cadot,Olivier,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Tschopp,Jeanne
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Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) annual meeting 2007 (English)
The strategic objective of the 2007 annual meeting was to launch the Second Development Plan (DP2) and lay the foundation for its implementation in 2008 and beyond. In this regard, the main theme of the...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 45195 Document Date: January 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) annual meeting 2007 : Reunion annuelle 2007 du SSATP (French)
The strategic objective of the 2007 annual meeting was to launch the Second Development Plan (DP2) and lay the foundation for its implementation in 2008 and beyond. In this regard, the main theme of the...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 45195 Document Date: January 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Conflict, livelihoods, and poverty in Guinea-Bissau (English)
Conflict and political instability have weakened Guinea-Bissau's productive infrastructure considerably during the past three decades. This situation contributes to an increase in the degree of vulnerability...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 39044 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Barry,Boubacar-Sid,Creppy,Edward G. E.,Gacitua-Mario,Estanislao,Wodon,Quentin T.
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Mainstreaming gender in the health sector : prevention of gender-based violence and male involvement in reproductive health (English)
The Bank has hosted various conferences to address issues of male involvement in reproductive health and gender-based violence, yet no projects in the World Bank's portfolio have directly addressed either...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 36077 Document Date: April 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Betron,Myra L.,Fort,Lucia
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Mainstreaming gender in the health sector : prevention of gender-based violence and male involvement in reproductive health : Integracion de los asuntos de genero al sector salud : prevencion de la violencia por genero y participacion de los hombres en la salud reproductiva (Spanish)
The Bank has hosted various conferences to address issues of male involvement in reproductive health and gender-based violence, yet no projects in the World Bank's portfolio have directly addressed either...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 36077 Document Date: April 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Betron,Myra L.,Fort,Lucia
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Linking agricultural innovations to knowledge sharing in Africa (English)
Most recent African indigenous knowledge (IK) literature, especially in agriculture, emphasizes that Africans are informed innovators. This literature is filled with success stories; excellent examples...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 35293 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Linking agricultural innovations to knowledge sharing in Africa : Lier les innovations agricoles au partage des connaissances en Afrique (French)
Most recent African indigenous knowledge (IK) literature, especially in agriculture, emphasizes that Africans are informed innovators. This literature is filled with success stories; excellent examples...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 35293 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Ghana : Poverty and social impact analysis of electricity tariffs (English)
The World Bank's assistance was requested to conduct a Poverty and Social Impact Analysis assessing the direct and indirect impacts, as well as options for electricity pricing for the poor. Results of...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 35991 Document Date: December 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Keener,Sarah,Banerjee,Sudeshna Ghosh