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  • Blended Concessional Finance - The Benefits of Transparency and Access (English)

    Blended concessional finance, the combination of commercial finance from the private sector and development finance institutions (DFIs) with concessional finance from public and other sources, is increasingly...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 161505 Document Date: July 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Karlin,Arthur S.,Sierra-Escalante,Kruskaia

  • Natural disasters in MENA : a regional overview (English)

    Disasters are increasing worldwide with more devastating effects than ever before. The absolute number of disasters around the world has almost doubled since the 1980s, but the average number of natural...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 83720 Document Date: September 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bousquet,Franck

  • The Brazilian competitiveness cliff (English)

    Brazilian exports of goods and services have grown sharply in recent years, with sales nearly three times higher in 2010 than in 2000. However, Brazil faces considerable competitiveness challenges: its...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 75182 Document Date: February 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Canuto,Otaviano,Cavallari,Matheus,Reis,Jose Guilherme

  • Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina (English)

    Using the most recent estimates of agricultural price distortions, this chapter studies the economic, poverty, and income inequality impacts of both global and domestic trade reform in Argentina, with...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55944 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cicowiez,Martin,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio

  • Assessing labor market conditions in Madagascar, 2001-2005 (English)

    This report assesses labor market conditions in Madagascar between 2001 and 2005. Labor markets are the focus here because poor people derive most of their income from their own largely unskilled labor...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 41891 Document Date: June 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Stifel,David C.,Rakotomanana, Faly Hery,Celada,Elena

  • Internal labor mobility in Central Europe and the Baltic region (English)

    Drawing from a variety of data sources and utilizing a common empirical framework and estimation strategy, this study identifies patterns and statistical profiles of geographical mobility. It finds internal...

    Document Type: Other Poverty Study Report No.: 40007 Document Date: May 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Liwinski, Jacek,Paci,Pierella,Stoilkova,Maria M.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Walewski, Mateusz

  • Chile - Reconciling the gender paradox (English)

    In this note, the authors explain that although Chile has made considerable progress in its efforts to reduce poverty, sustain growth, and promote democratization during the last decade, these advances...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 40740 Document Date: April 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fort,Lucia,John-Abraham,Indu,Orlando,Maria Beatriz,Piras Claudia

  • Shanghai : developing a green electricity scheme (English)

    This report documents the experience of developing a green electricity scheme in Shanghai, China. It is intended to be a resource when replicating this effort in another city or country. The study consists...

    Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 38344 Document Date: September 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Berrah,Noureddine,Crowdis, Mark D.,Heijndermans,Enno

  • Modeling pay and employment (English)

    Bank support for civil service reform (CSR) in developing countries used to focus mainly on improving government pay, and employment practices. In recent years, CSR programs have sought a broader set of...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 35661 Document Date: February 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Green, Amanda,Nunberg,Barbara,Reid,Gary J.

  • An environmental review of 2002-04 country assistance strategies (English)

    Integrating environmental concerns in lending, and non lending operations of the Bank is imperative in securing, and strengthening a sustainable development agenda. Country Assistance Strategies (CASs)...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 34115 Document Date: September 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kishore,Sunanda,Shyamsundar,Priya

  • Ghana - mining and development (English)

    The objectives of the project ($9.37 million, 1996-2001) were to (a) enhance the capacity of the mining sector institutions to carry out their functions of encouraging and regulating investments in the...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31067 Document Date: October 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: P.C. Mohan (editor)