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  • The impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Chile (English)

    This paper applies a comprehensive tax-benefit incidence analysis to estimate the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Chile in 2013. Four results are indicative of an overall positive net effect...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125643 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Martinez Aguilar,Sandra Natalia,Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Ortiz-Juarez,Eduardo,Carmen,Giselle Del

  • The business case for youth savings : a framework (English)

    This paper begins by offering a framework for understanding how different influences or ‘levers’ affect costs and revenues and uses examples to explain how the framework can be applied as a decision-making...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90956 Document Date: July 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kilara,Tanaya,Magnoni,Barbara,Zimmerman, Emily

  • Border crossing monitoring along the northern corridor (English)

    Border-crossing times in East Africa have been identified as a major constraint for smooth trade flows, both for regional trade and for international transit. Delays at borders disrupt efficient trade...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 78671 Document Date: April 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fitzmaurice, Mike,Hartmann,Olivier

  • Service with a smile (English)

    Can service be a growth escalator? The world is experiencing its third industrial revolution, and services are at the forefront of this revolution. Services have already surpassed industry as a source...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 73578 Document Date: November 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Grover,Arti Goswami,Kharas,Homi

  • Costa Rica - Recapturing momentum for poverty reduction (English)

    Costa Rica is well-known for its socio-economic achievements with low levels of poverty and inequality by Latin American standards. It also performs well in health, access to improved water supplies, suitable...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 38739 Document Date: October 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mason,Andrew D.,Sobrado,Carlos E.

  • Endogenous and modern innovations : differing perspectives (English)

    This notes paper touches on Ethiopia's being one of nine countries Involvement in the international network PROLINNOVA (Promoting Local Innovation). The Ethiopian program set up multi-stakeholder teams...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 39130 Document Date: September 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Industry concentration in South African manufacturing : trends and consequences 1972-1996 (English)

    This paper examines industry concentration for the South African manufacturing sector over the 1972-1996 period for the three-digit industry classification. The paper documents both the high level of industry...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 38702 Document Date: December 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fedderke,Johannes Wolfgang,Szalontai,Gabor Daniel

  • Trends in recent World Bank support for severance pay (English)

    This note summarizes the operational perspective and design of severance packages supported by Bank loans and credits. The analysis focuses on severance-funding investment projects approved between fiscal...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 32874 Document Date: March 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mukherjee,Ranjana

  • Scaling-up a community-driven HIV/AIDS program in Malawi (English)

    This note is part of a series that examines factors that facilitate the scaling up of Community Driven Development (CDD) programs. The note describes the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33008 Document Date: October 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kadiyala, Suneetha

  • Paying for biodiversity conservation services in agricultural landscapes (English)

    This paper describes the contract mechanism developed for the Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Ecosystem Management Project, which is being implemented with financing from the Global Environment Facility...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 29351 Document Date: May 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Pagiola, Stefano, Agostini, Paola, Gobbi, Jose

  • A European market for Malian mangoes (English)

    In 2001 a pilot operation to export mangoes from Mali was set up as part of the new operation plan of the Agro-Processing Trading Project (Projet d'Appui ?a Valorisation et Commercialisation des Produits...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 27784 Document Date: January 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan