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  • Vision of the future : financial inclusion 2025 (English)

    It is 2025. Imagine that everyone around the world is using a broad range of affordable financial services that meet their various needs, full financial inclusion. This has contributed to a new wave of...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 119217 Document Date: June 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lahaye,Estelle Marie,Abell, Thomas E.,Hoover, James K.

  • Container terminals concession guidelines (English)

    The decision, by a national government or a port authority, to contract out the development and operation of a container terminal facility to a qualified private operator sets in motion a process involving...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 120246 Document Date: June 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Juhel,Marc H.

  • Container terminals concession guidelines (French)

    The decision, by a national government or a port authority, to contract out the development and operation of a container terminal facility to a qualified private operator sets in motion a process involving...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 120246 Document Date: June 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Juhel,Marc H.

  • Container terminal concession guidelines (English)

    The decision, by a national government or a port authority, to contract out the development and operation of a container terminal facility to a qualified private operator sets in motion a process involving...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 117776 Document Date: June 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Juhel,Marc H.

  • Gender and justice in Jordan : women, demand, and access (English)

    Two key dimensions on access to justice sector services in Jordan are poverty and gender. The gender dimension to accessing formal justice sector services, namely court and lawyer services is anchored...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 83722 Document Date: September 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prettitore,Paul Scott

  • Promoting women's economic participation in India (English)

    Despite rapid economic growth, gender disparities in women's economic participation have remained deep and persistent in India. What explains these gender disparities? Is it poor infrastructure, limited...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 75524 Document Date: February 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kerr,William Robert,O'Connell,Stephen Daniel

  • Liberalizing trade, and its impact on poverty and inequality in Nicaragua (English)

    The Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations stalled in 2008 owing in no small degree to a lack of agreement on the terms of substantially reducing trade-distorting support for agricultural products...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55947 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sanchez, Marco V.,Vos,Robert

  • The impact of the real exchange rate on manufacturing exports in Benin (English)

    The objective of this study is to assess developments in Benin's external competitiveness and hence its exchange rate policy. It analyses the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the performance...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 44874 Document Date: November 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Linjouom Njonap,Mireille Simone

  • Liberia rapid social assessment (English)

    This note summarizes the main findings of the Rapid Social Assessment (RSA) Update. To respond to community tensions and to build upon emergent positive social relations the Update recommended a new impetus...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 41015 Document Date: March 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Competition and performance in the Polish second pillar (English)

    This paper provides an assessment of the Polish funded pension system and the quality of the regulatory framework for the accumulation phase. There are two elements that distinguish the Polish pension...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 40537 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rocha, Roberto,Rudolph,Heinz P.

  • PREM Anchor support to the Africa region (English)

    The note reviews the support of the Africa Action Plan (AAP), through the work of the PREM - Poverty Reduction and Economic Management - Anchor, which actively stepped up its support to the Africa Region...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 36078 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Leipziger,Danny M.

  • Population and family planning: lessons from Malawi (English)

    The objective of the Population and Family Planning (FP) Project, a Learning and Innovation Loan (LIL), was to test the feasibility of a comprehensive and district-wide Community Based Distribution (CBD)...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31069 Document Date: December 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prakash,Siddhartha

  • Structure and performance of manufacturing in Mozambique (English)

    This survey was designed to research a number of basic issues, including the composition of the manufacturing sector, sources of growth, major impediments to growth, the composition of the labor force...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 33737 Document Date: August 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Biggs,Tyler S.,Naisr, John,Fisman,Raymond