Documents & Reports
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What Gets Measured Gets Done : Using a Corporate Scorecard to Drive Greater Investment Impact (English)
In 2018, International Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) shareholders authorized a capital increase of 5.5 billion dollars, the largest increase in its history. The capital increase was based on a strategy...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 167197 Document Date: December 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Narayanaswamy,Meera
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors Resolution ; No. 108 : 2020 Regular Election of Directors (English)
On July 31, 2020, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and eight. It was resolved that the 2020 regular election of directors shall...
Document Type: Board Report Report No.: 151400 Document Date: July 31, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Consumer protection in digital credit (English)
This paper explores new approaches to address risks and problems in five areas: disclosure of loan terms and conditions; marketing approaches to promote responsible borrowing; appropriate and tailored...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 119214 Document Date: August 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mazer, Rafe,McKee, Kate
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How do women fare in rural non-farm economy? (English)
This paper studies the gender-based differences in access to and return from economic activities in the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) using panel datasets from Uganda and Ethiopia. The results show that...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125696 Document Date: May 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fuje,Habtamu Neda
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Middle East and North Africa regional brief (English)
The process of political change and transition across much of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continued into 2013, with a great degree of heterogeneity across countries. The crisis in Syria...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 83723 Document Date: October 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: MNAEX
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What promises does the Eurasian customs union hold for the future? (English)
Established in 2010, the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) carries significant economic weight as three of its member countries represent a potentially large consumer market. Drawing on existing literature...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 75656 Document Date: February 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carneiro,Francisco Galrao
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Border price and export demand shocks for developing countries from rest-of-world trade liberalization using the linkage model (English)
The volume on agricultural price distortions, inequality and poverty begins with a global study that uses the World Bank's linkage model to examine the economic impacts in various countries, regions and...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55948 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique,Valenzuela,Ernesto,Anderson,Kym
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Building sector concerns into macroeconomic financial programming : lessons from Senegal and Uganda (English)
Under investment in infrastructure and social sectors during much of the 1990s has ignited a lively debate on "fiscal space"- that is, whether some countries could tolerate a larger public deficit if the...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 44873 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Estache,Antonio,Munoz,Rafael Fontes
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Operationalizing social accountability in policy-based lending : lessons learned from emerging experience (English)
This study provides an overview of how World Bank-financed policy-based loans (both structural adjustment loans and Development Policy Lending's) (DPLs) have supported social accountability approaches...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 43068 Document Date: September 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Silva-Leander,Annika,Reuben,William
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Public sectors in the Americas : How big are they (English)
This note provides selected measurements of public sector size for the countries and territories of the Americas and discusses the resulting differences across countries and territories and across the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 41105 Document Date: July 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carrizosa,Mauricio
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Public sectors in the Americas : How big are they : Los sectores publicos de las Ameritas : Cuan grandes son (Spanish)
This note provides selected measurements of public sector size for the countries and territories of the Americas and discusses the resulting differences across countries and territories and across the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 41105 Document Date: July 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carrizosa,Mauricio
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Community foundations : a tool for preservation of cultural heritage (English)
This note emphasizes that Community Foundations present a practical instrument to supplement larger cultural heritage projects and to support the preservation and use of cultural heritage applying community...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 41013 Document Date: April 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Strategies for cotton in West and Central Africa : enhancing competitiveness in the Cotton-4 - Strategies pour accroitre la competitivite du : Le secteur du coton : en Afrique de l'Ouest et du centre - strategies pour accroitre la competitivite du C4 (French)
The objective of this report is to identify ways of enhancing competitiveness through sector reforms in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali (the Cotton-4). The report promotes best practices to manage...
Document Type: Other Agricultural Study Report No.: 40533 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Salamon,Ilhem,Cheikh Rouhou Ep Abid,Hela,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
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Strategies for cotton in West and Central Africa : enhancing competitiveness in the Cotton-4 - Strategies pour accroitre la competitivite du : Strategies for cotton in West and Central Africa : enhancing competitiveness in the Cotton-4 (English)
The objective of this report is to identify ways of enhancing competitiveness through sector reforms in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali (the Cotton-4). The report promotes best practices to manage...
Document Type: Other Agricultural Study Report No.: 40533 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Salamon,Ilhem,Cheikh Rouhou Ep Abid,Hela,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
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Greater Mekong Sub-region options for the structure of the GMS Power Trade Market : a first overview of issues and possible options (English)
The World Bank, working together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), actively supports the development of a regional power market in the GMS: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Yunnan...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 39896 Document Date: December 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Barker,James,Minogue,Diane Catherine
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Pro-poor public spending reform : Uganda's virtual poverty fund (English)
The Poverty Action Fund (PAF) was introduced in Uganda in 1998 to reorient government expenditures towards implementing its Poverty Education Action Plan (PEAP) as well as to account for Heavily Indebted...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37141 Document Date: March 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Canagarajah,Roy S.,Williamson,Timothy Stephen
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National and regional legislation for promotion and support to the prevention, control, and eradication of invasive species (English)
One of the most difficult issues to be addressed in enabling, and conducting invasive control measures, is simply the need to apply practical legislative reasoning to the process. It is difficult because...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 35433 Document Date: February 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Young, Tomme Rosanne
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Gambia, The - Community-based response to HIV/AIDS: lessons learned from BAFROW : Gambia, The - Community-based response to HIV/AIDS : lessons learned from BAFROW (English)
Foundation for Research on Women's Health, Productivity and the Environment (BAFROW) is a local women's Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in The Gambia that is considered an example of best practice...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31070 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: P.C. Mohan (editor)
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Gambia, The - Community-based response to HIV/AIDS: lessons learned from BAFROW : Gambie - Riposte communautaire au VIH/SIDA : lecons apprises de BAFROW (French)
Foundation for Research on Women's Health, Productivity and the Environment (BAFROW) is a local women's Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in The Gambia that is considered an example of best practice...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31070 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: P.C. Mohan (editor)
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A microeconometric evaluation of the Mauritius Technology Diffusion Scheme (TDS) (English)
This evaluation of the Mauritius Technology Diffusion Scheme was undertaken to serve as a "benchmark" for assessing matching grant schemes in other countries. It is the first microeconomic study evaluating...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 33738 Document Date: November 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Biggs,Tyler S.