Documents & Reports
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Blue Natural Capital : Enhancing Business Outcomes and Sustainability of Coastal Tourism Markets (English)
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit the tourism industry particularly hard, affecting livelihoods and exacerbating some pressures on the natural capital resource base. Supporting the tourism sector...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 158327 Document Date: April 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: White,Elizabeth M.,Rahill,Bilal H.
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How Do Enterprises Benefit from Grid Connection? : The Case of Rural Electrification in Bangladesh (English)
Many of the enterprises that make up Bangladesh’s dominant nonfarm sector (85 percent of GDP) are located in rural areas (World Bank 2015). Electrifying them can be a major driving force behind economic...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 139374 Document Date: July 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Samad,Hussain A.,Portale,Elisa
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For India’s rural poor, growing towns matter more than growing cities (English)
It is theoretically ambiguous whether growth of cities matters more to the rural poor than growth of towns. This paper empirically examines whether growth of India’s secondary towns or big cities mattered...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125650 Document Date: March 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gibson,John,Datt,Gaurav,Murgai,Rinku,Ravallion,Martin
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 101 : Increase in Overall Limit on Guarantee Capacity (English)
On November 11, 2016, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and one. It was resolved that, Pursuant to Article 22(a) of the Convention...
Document Type: Board Report Report No.: 110300 Document Date: November 11, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Understanding costs and sustainability of sharia-compliant microfinance products (English)
While Islamic finance is a growing industry with more than 1,000 Islamic finance institutions and combined assets in excess of $1.3 trillion (Reuters 2013), the development of sharia-compliant microfinance...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 95213 Document Date: February 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alvarez,Kaylene,El-Zoghbi,Mayada
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Understanding costs and sustainability of sharia-compliant microfinance products : Comprendre les coûts et la viabilité des produits de microfinance conformes à la charia (French)
While Islamic finance is a growing industry with more than 1,000 Islamic finance institutions and combined assets in excess of $1.3 trillion (Reuters 2013), the development of sharia-compliant microfinance...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 95213 Document Date: February 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alvarez,Kaylene,El-Zoghbi,Mayada
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Understanding costs and sustainability of sharia-compliant microfinance products : Hacia un mayor conocimiento de los costos y la sostenibilidad de los productos microfinancieros regidos por la sharia (Spanish)
While Islamic finance is a growing industry with more than 1,000 Islamic finance institutions and combined assets in excess of $1.3 trillion (Reuters 2013), the development of sharia-compliant microfinance...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 95213 Document Date: February 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alvarez,Kaylene,El-Zoghbi,Mayada
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MENA and public consultations (English)
The integration of consultation mechanisms throughout the policymaking process has proved to be a valuable instrument to help strengthen government-citizen interaction and improve the quality of government...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80250 Document Date: June 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bteddini,Lida
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Grandparents as child care providers : factors to consider when designing child care policies (English)
Formal child care services can expand women's economic opportunities and promote equity through early childhood development. However, academics and policy makers often overlook the role of relatives as...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 74363 Document Date: December 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Posadas,Josefina
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Agricultural price distortions, poverty, and inequality in the Philippines (English)
This paper analyzes the poverty and inequality implications of removing agricultural and non-agricultural price distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55940 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cororaton,Caesar B.,Corong,Erwin Lucban,Cockburn,John Murray
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Low-income housing in Latin America and the Caribbean : La vivienda popular en America Latina y el Caribe (Spanish)
Housing is one of the most important sectors of the economy -- in developing countries as in richer ones -- with large positive externalities in terms of economic growth, public health and societal stability...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 38748 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jha,Abhas Kumar
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Low-income housing in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)
Housing is one of the most important sectors of the economy -- in developing countries as in richer ones -- with large positive externalities in terms of economic growth, public health and societal stability...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 38748 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jha,Abhas Kumar
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Developing science, mathematics, and ICT education in Sub-Saharan Africa : patterns and promising practices (English)
This thematic study is about developing science, mathematics and ICT (SMICT) in secondary education. The study is based on country studies from 10 Sub-Saharan African countries: Botswana, Burkina Faso...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 39169 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ottevanger,Wouter,De Feiter,Leo P.,Van Den Akker,Jan J.H.
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Rice markets in Madagascar in disarray : policy options for increased efficiency and price stabilization (English)
Faced with a production shortfall in early 2004 and a sharp rise in the price of imported rice due to a depreciation of the Malagasy franc and a spike in international rice prices, Madagascar attempted...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 38706 Document Date: September 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Minten, Bart (editor),Dorosh, Paul (editor)
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Primary and secondary education in Lesotho - a Country Status Report for education (English)
This Country Status report provides an analysis of the education sector in Lesotho up to 2003/04 (and, on some dimensions, up to 2004/05), specifically, a diagnostic in orientation, which aims to assist...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 35654 Document Date: December 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Liang,Xiaoyan,Tan,Jee-Peng,Mutumbuka,Dzingai Barnabas
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Staff incentives and project implementation : lessons from e-government (English)
This note questions how would approaches to personnel management be changed, so that staff incentives facilitate-rather than undermine-project implementation. To succeed, institutional reform efforts must...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33754 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Holtz, Paul [editor]
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Assessing the economic value of ecosystem conservation (English)
This paper seeks to clarify how valuation should be conducted to answer specific environmental policy questions. In particular, it looks at how valuation should be used to examine four distinct aspects...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 30887 Document Date: October 1, 2004 Author: Bishop, Joshua T.,Pagiola,Stefano P.,Ritter,Konrad Von
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Eritrea - Rapid results initiative (PRI) on HIV/AIDS (English)
In January 2003, the Eritrean Ministry of Health prepared a National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS for 2003-2007. In an effort to boost progress in the Community Managed Response (CMR) component of the plan...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31063 Document Date: June 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Eritrea - Rapid results initiative (PRI) on HIV/AIDS : Eritree: l'initiative resultats rapides (PRI) dans la lutte contre le VIH/SIDA (French)
In January 2003, the Eritrean Ministry of Health prepared a National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS for 2003-2007. In an effort to boost progress in the Community Managed Response (CMR) component of the plan...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31063 Document Date: June 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Early childhood development in Sub-Saharan Africa : policy and programs : Etudes de cas des programmes de soins et de developpement de la petite enfance (French)
This study, review of early childhood development policy and programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, is the second in a series of three studies conducted under the World Bank's Africa regional early child development...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 57121 Document Date: August 1, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Colletta,Nat J.,Dowd,Amy Jo