Documents & Reports
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Lessons for Electric Utilities from COVID-19 Responses in Emerging Markets (English)
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting economic shutdown have severely depressed electricity demand across the globe, with acute consequences for the revenues and financial health of utilities...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 154594 Document Date: September 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Apfalter,Stefan,Hommes,Martin,Torres Pereira Mendes,Joaquim Miguel,Toba,Natsuko
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Gender Dimensions of Education Access and Achievement in Sri Lanka (English)
Sri Lanka is a lower-middle income country with an impressive record of achievementsin economic and human development. Despite 26 years of conflict, Sri Lanka, an island countrywith a population of 20.6...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 130655 Document Date: August 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aturupane,Harsha,Shojo,Mari,Ebenezer,Roshini Mary
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CPI bias and its implications for poverty reduction in Africa (English)
International poverty estimates for countries in Africa commonly rely on national consumer price indexes (CPI) to adjust trends in nominal consumption over time for changes in the cost of living. However...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125634 Document Date: December 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dabalen,Andrew L.,Gaddis,Isis,Nguyen,Nga Thi Viet
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Making recourse work for base-of-the-pyramid financial consumers : Les recours : comment en faire beneficier les consommateurs de produits financiers au bas de la pyramide (French)
This case demonstrates some of the challenges base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) consumers face with the products and providers they use, and how access to effective non-judicial recourse options can help bridge...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 88167 Document Date: December 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chapman,Megan Swann,Mazer,Rafael Keenan
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Making recourse work for base-of-the-pyramid financial consumers : Sistemas de recurso eficaces para los consumidores de servicios financieros de la base de la piramide (Spanish)
This case demonstrates some of the challenges base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) consumers face with the products and providers they use, and how access to effective non-judicial recourse options can help bridge...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 88167 Document Date: December 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chapman,Megan Swann,Mazer,Rafael Keenan
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Making recourse work for base-of-the-pyramid financial consumers : Les recours : comment en faire bénéficier les consommateurs de produits financiers au bas de la pyramide (English)
This case demonstrates some of the challenges base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) consumers face with the products and providers they use, and how access to effective non-judicial recourse options can help bridge...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 88167 Document Date: December 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chapman,Megan Swann,Mazer,Rafael Keenan
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Another price of the job creation puzzle : developing the MSME sector in Egypt (English)
The Egyptian revolution resulted in key challenges but also opportunities. It has highlighted the need for more jobs, a level playing field, good governance (transparency and accountability), as well as...
Report No.: 76532 Document Date: April 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmed,Laila Ashraf Abdelkader,Nasr,Sahar Ahmed
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Another piece of the job creation puzzle : developing the MSME sector in Egypt (English)
The Egyptian revolution resulted in key challenges but also opportunities. It has highlighted the need for more jobs, a level playing field, good governance (transparency and accountability), as well as...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80244 Document Date: April 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nasr,Sahar Ahmed,Abd, Yara El
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South-South cooperation : how Mongolia learned from Chile on managing a mineral-rich economy (English)
Mongolia's mineral-rich economy was hit extremely hard by the global downturn during 2008-9, when copper prices plunged, external demand fell, and growth collapsed. The shock exposed serious underlying...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 72946 Document Date: September 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Den Brink,Rogier J. E.,Sayed,Arshad M.,Barnett, Steve,Aninat,Eduardo U.,Parrado,Eric C.,Hasnain,Zahid,Shaukat Khan,Tehmina
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 90 : membership of South Sudan (English)
On December 5, 2011, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number ninety. It was resolved that South Sudan shall be admitted to membership and shall...
Document Type: Board Report Report No.: 82463 Document Date: December 5, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Guidelines on vehicle overload control in Eastern and Southern Africa : Directives sur le controle de la surcharge des vehicules en Afrique orientale et australe (French)
Heavy goods vehicle overloading is a serious problem across much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Such overloading not only significantly accelerates the rate of deterioration of road pavements but, when coupled...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 66935 Document Date: March 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pinard, Michael lan
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Guidelines on vehicle overload control in Eastern and Southern Africa (English)
Heavy goods vehicle overloading is a serious problem across much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Such overloading not only significantly accelerates the rate of deterioration of road pavements but, when coupled...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 66935 Document Date: March 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pinard, Michael lan
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Agricultural distortion patterns since the 1950s : what needs explaining? (English)
This paper summarizes a new database that sheds light on the impact of trade-related policy developments over the past half century on distortions to agricultural incentives and thus also to consumer prices...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55950 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Croser,Johanna Louise,Sandri,Damiano,Valenzuela,Ernesto
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Energy policies and multitopic household surveys : guidelines for questionnaire design in living standards measurement studies (English)
Analysis using data on household energy use from Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) surveys can help policymakers to identify which households are affected by energy poverty and then design policies...
Document Type: Energy Study Report No.: 38061 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: O'Sullivan,Kyran,Barnes,Douglas French
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Institutional reform of agricultural research and extension in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)
After a period of strong support in the 1960s and 1970s, public funding for research and extension activities in LAC began to wane in the 1980s and 1990s. The strained economic context for many countries...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37047 Document Date: May 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Roseboom,Johannes,Mcmahon,Matthew A.,Ekanayake,Indira Janaki,John-Abraham,Indu
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Institutional reform of agricultural research and extension in Latin America and the Caribbean : Reforma institucional de la investigacion y extension agricola en America Latina y el Caribe (Spanish)
After a period of strong support in the 1960s and 1970s, public funding for research and extension activities in LAC began to wane in the 1980s and 1990s. The strained economic context for many countries...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37047 Document Date: May 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Roseboom,Johannes,Mcmahon,Matthew A.,Ekanayake,Indira Janaki,John-Abraham,Indu
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Indigenous knowledge (IK) notes survey (English)
The present edition of IK Notes asks the reader to provide feedback, and assess the contribution the publication has made to their related work. The intention is to learn about perceptions of IK Notes...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 36060 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rueger,Claudia
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Indigenous knowledge (IK) notes survey : Enquete sur les connaissances autochtones (French)
The present edition of IK Notes asks the reader to provide feedback, and assess the contribution the publication has made to their related work. The intention is to learn about perceptions of IK Notes...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 36060 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rueger,Claudia
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Stimulating the picohydropower market for low-income households in Ecuador (English)
The main aim of this World Bank-ESMAP project has been to pave the way for picohydro to become accessible to low-income households in Ecuador, with the view to replicating the process in the Andean region...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 35993 Document Date: December 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: FUENTES, MANUEL A.,Green, John,Rai,Kavita,Taylor, Simon
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Kenya - export prospects and problems (English)
This report examines reasons why Kenya and other African trade did not provide the engine of growth that it did elsewhere. During the last quarter century many Sub-Saharan African countries non-oil exports...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 34993 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ng,Francis K. T.,Yeats,Alexander James