Documents & Reports
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The poverty implications of alternative tax reforms : results from a numerical application to Pakistan (English)
This paper presents results from four simulations of the impact of potential tax reforms in Pakistan on poverty, shared prosperity, and inequality. The simulations are carried out in the context of a dynamic...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125564 Document Date: August 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Feltenstein,Andrew,Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina,Newhouse,David Locke,Sedrakyan, Gohar
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Promoting financial inclusion for growth and development in Iraq (English)
A well-functioning financial sector is critical for efficient resource allocation leading to increased productivity, greater investment, and higher overall levels of economic growth. This is particularly...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 87549 Document Date: February 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Abdel Aziz,Teymour,Mcconaghy,Peter
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Asset prices, macro prudential regulation, and monetary policy (English)
Confidence in combining inflation-targeting-cum-flexible-exchange-rate regimes with isolated micro prudential regulation as a means to guarantee both macroeconomic and financial stability has been shattered...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 77453 Document Date: May 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Canuto, Otaviano, Cavallari, Matheus
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Commodity markets review (September 2011) (English)
Non-energy commodity prices fell by 1.6 percent in August while energy prices dropped 6.3 percent. Most of the declines were for industrial commodities owing to concerns about demand and numerous macro...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 64839 Document Date: September 12, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks : methods for investigation at local and national levels (English)
Effective planning for climate change adaptation programming in developing countries requires a fine-grained assessment of local vulnerabilities, practices and adaptation options and preferences. While...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 51412 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kuriakose,Anne T., Bizikova, Livia ,Bachofen,Carina Andrea
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Strategic environmental assessment : improving water resources governance and decision making - case studies (English)
The overall goal of this report is to help water resources and environment professionals within the Bank and client countries use strategic environmental assessment (SEA) to effectively implement the principles...
Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: 48899 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hirji,Rafik Fatehali,Davis,Richard
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Methods for studying rural institutions, networks, and capacity in the developing world : mobilizing rural institutions (English)
This note outlines two methods developed by the Mobilizing Rural Institutions study to assess and compare the governance capacities of local institutions and their network relationships in any local context...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 69095 Document Date: December 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Agrawal,Arun,Mcsweeney,Catherine S.,Perrin,Nicolas
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Taking stock of community initiatives in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa : experience, issues, and challenges : Taking stock of community initiatives in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa : experience, issues, and challenges (English)
This paper clarifies the concepts of community initiatives since organizations involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS use different definitions of 'community.' It presents several HIV initiatives taken...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 51705 Document Date: June 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Delion,Jean J.,Dulvy,Elizabeth Ninan
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Brazil - Enhancing performance in Brazil's health sector : lessons from innovations in the state of Sao Paulo and the city of Curitiba (English)
The inadequacy of public services in Brazil today constrains the country's economic growth and social development. The volume of government expenditure is not the principal bottleneck: at over 40 percent...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 44686 Document Date: February 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Matzuda, Yasuhiko,Rinne,Jeffrey James,Shepherd,Geoffrey,Santos,Juliana Wenceslau Biriba
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Millennium development goals and Africa : an alternative view (English)
In this note the author argue that although the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can have been better specified, they have served a purpose, namely, to galvanize support among concerned donors to increase...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 44895 Document Date: February 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Leipziger,Danny M.
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Vocational education in the new EU member states : enhancing labor market outcomes and fiscal efficiency (English)
This report explores the fiscal aspects of vocational education reform in the context of secondary education as a whole and considers the implications of any changes in the vocational education (VE) system...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 40560 Document Date: June 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Canning,Mary,Godfrey,Martin E.,Holzer-Zelazewska,Dorota
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Strengthening energy security in Uruguay (English)
The Uruguayan energy sector is at the crossroads. As in the case of many other countries, high oil prices in the international market are taking their toll on an economy which imports all of its oil and...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 40243 Document Date: May 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Mauritania : the Rainfed Natural Resource Management Project (English)
This article, extracted from an Implementation Completion Report, centers on the Mauritania Natural Resources Management Project ( Projet de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles en Zones Pluviales - PGRNP...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33650 Document Date: September 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ba, Amadou Omar
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Mauritania : the Rainfed Natural Resource Management Project : Mauritanie : projet de gestion des ressources naturelles en zones pluviales (French)
This article, extracted from an Implementation Completion Report, centers on the Mauritania Natural Resources Management Project ( Projet de Gestion des Ressources Naturelles en Zones Pluviales - PGRNP...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33650 Document Date: September 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ba, Amadou Omar
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The manufacturing sector in sub-Saharan Africa : an analysis based on firm surveys in seven countries (English)
The economies of sub-Saharan Africa have gone through major changes over the last three decades. The Regional Program on Enterprise Development (RPED) survey of the manufacturing sector in the first half...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 56891 Document Date: September 1, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mazumdar,Dipak,Mazaheri,Ata
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Hub and spoke vs. multiple ports of call : Systeme de desserte a escales multiples ou systeme de transbordement transport maritime de conteneurs entre l'Afrique de l'ouest et l'Europe (French)
In a hub and spoke system of containerized seaborne trade, cargo to a region is delivered first to a primary hub port and then transported to its final destination, whether by sea, rail, road or inland...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 57139 Document Date: May 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Hub and spoke vs. multiple ports of call (English)
In a hub and spoke system of containerized seaborne trade, cargo to a region is delivered first to a primary hub port and then transported to its final destination, whether by sea, rail, road or inland...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 57139 Document Date: August 1, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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What factors determine auction prices in privatization? (English)
Do the timing and type of auction affect the sale price? What kind of restructuring is worth doing before privatization? The author examines how much these and other factors affect privatization prices...
Document Type: Viewpoint Report No.: 16873 Document Date: June 30, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lopez-De-Silanes,Florencio
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Structural adjustment lending in Jordan (English)
This Precis entitled, Structural adjustment in Jordan, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Jordan : Industrial and trade policy adjustment loan...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 28684 Document Date: June 1, 1996 Author: EBRAHIMI, FARAH
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Structural adjustment lending in Jordan : El ajuste estructural en Jordania (Spanish)
This Precis entitled, Structural adjustment in Jordan, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Jordan : Industrial and trade policy adjustment loan...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 28684 Document Date: June 1, 1996 Author: EBRAHIMI, FARAH