Documents & Reports
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Improving Smallholders’ Jobs Through Agribusiness Linkages : Findings of the Mozambique Agricultural Aggregator Pilot (MAAP) (English)
Agricultural firms in developing countries may decide to implement aggregation schemes, typically through contract farming arrangements (CFAs). The firms’ rationale for engaging in aggregation is likely...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 173512 Document Date: April 30, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baxter,Michael William Peary,Delgado,Christopher Brian,Jose Romero,Clark,Alistair Ian Walker
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The Case for Responsible Investing in Digital Financial Services (English)
Together with private sector investors, International Finance Corporation (IFC) has been leading a global effort to develop new guidelines for responsible investing in digital finance. These guidelines...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 143356 Document Date: April 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Biallas,Margarete O.,Aijazuddin,Momina,Opem,Maria Lourdes Camba
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When do gender wage differences emerge? : a study of Azerbaijan’s labor market (English)
Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125656 Document Date: March 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pastore,Francesco,Sattar,Sarosh,Sinha,Nistha,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.
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World Bank Lending in the Health Sector (1968-2009) (English)
The Art Program’s Capacity Project exhibit on the World Bank Lending in the Health Sector was created in collaboration with the World Bank’s Information Solution Group’s Library and Archives of Development...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 104703 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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How much and what kind of teaching is there in elementary education in India? Evidence from three states (English)
This study focuses on the link between teachers' 'time-on-task' (TOT) and the nature of tasks in classrooms. This study, carried out with concurrence from Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 86001 Document Date: February 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sankar,Deepa,Linden,Tobias
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A new model for job creation in Armenia : promoting more effective accumulation, competition, and connectivity (Russian)
In Armenia, more effective accumulation, together with greater competition and better connectivity with the rest of the world, will increase pressures on firms to compete and innovate and will thus reinvigorate...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 83947 Document Date: November 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bartsch,Ulrich
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A new model for job creation in Armenia : promoting more effective accumulation, competition, and connectivity (English)
In Armenia, more effective accumulation, together with greater competition and better connectivity with the rest of the world, will increase pressures on firms to compete and innovate and will thus reinvigorate...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 83947 Document Date: November 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bartsch,Ulrich
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iMENA - learning from the innovation policy experience in Eastern Europe, Korea and Turkey (English)
Innovation is often touted as a key component in unleashing private sector growth and the dynamism necessary for solving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's employment challenges. The region's...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 73002 Document Date: July 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kacem,Rimal Afifa
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Better access to water raises welfare, but not women's off-farm work (English)
In the developing world, poor rural women and their children spend considerable time collecting water. Do women living in areas where more time is needed for water collection tend to participate less in...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 64928 Document Date: October 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Koolwal,Gayatri B.,Van De Walle,Dominique
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Andhra Pradesh 2010 : global implications of the crisis in Indian microfinance : Andhra Pradesh 2010 : implicaciones mundiales de la crisis en las microfinanzas de la India (Spanish)
Andhra Pradesh, the fifth most populous state in India, is home to five of its largest for-profit nonbank finance companies, all of which began in the 1990s as microfinance institutions (NBFC MFIs). The...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 82562 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Andhra Pradesh 2010 : global implications of the crisis in Indian microfinance : Andhra Pradesh 2010 : implications mondiales de la crise de la microfinance en Inde (French)
Andhra Pradesh, the fifth most populous state in India, is home to five of its largest for-profit nonbank finance companies, all of which began in the 1990s as microfinance institutions (NBFC MFIs). The...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 82562 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Andhra Pradesh 2010 : global implications of the crisis in Indian microfinance (English)
Andhra Pradesh, the fifth most populous state in India, is home to five of its largest for-profit nonbank finance companies, all of which began in the 1990s as microfinance institutions (NBFC MFIs). The...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 82562 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Financial crisis and global governance : a network analysis (English)
This paper attempts to use network theory, drawn from recent work in sociology, engineering, and biological systems, to suggest that the current crisis should be viewed as a network crisis. The author...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 57766 Document Date: January 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sheng,Len Tao
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Food safety, the environment, and trade (English)
In this paper, the authors discuss the ways in which national governments, firms, and individuals respond to policy related to food safety, environmental protection, and trade. These responses must be...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55966 Document Date: July 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Zilberman,David,Hochman, Gal,Sexton, Steven E.
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Understanding the drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Guatemala (English)
The regional study, "drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America," carried out by the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department of the Latin America...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33199 Document Date: April 5, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Pichon,Francisco J.,Raine,Martin,Siegel,Paul Bennett
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Understanding the drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Guatemala : Como funcionan en Guatemala los motores de crecimiento rural sostenible y reduccion de la pobreza (Spanish)
The regional study, "drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America," carried out by the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department of the Latin America...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33199 Document Date: April 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alwang,Jeffrey Roger,Pichon,Francisco J.,Raine,Martin,Siegel,Paul Bennett
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Nile Basin Initiative Shared Vision Program Regional Power Trade Project (Vol. 2 of 2) : Part II: Minutes of the First Meeting of the Nile Basin Ministers Responsible for Electricity -- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 20-21, 2003 (English)
This report compiles the minutes of the High-Level Power Experts Meeting (Part I) and the First Meeting of the Nile Basin Ministers Responsible for Electricity (Part II) organized under the leadership...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 35945 Document Date: March 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Nile Basin Initiative Shared Vision Program Regional Power Trade Project (Vol. 1 of 2) : Part I: Minutes of the High-Level Power Experts Meeting - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, February 24-26, 2003 (English)
This report compiles the minutes of the High-Level Power Experts Meeting (Part I) and the First Meeting of the Nile Basin Ministers Responsible for Electricity (Part II) organized under the leadership...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 35945 Document Date: March 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Microfinance in Russia : broadening access to finance for micro and small entrepreneurs (English)
Microfinance institutions of four types have emerged to meet the unfulfilled financing needs of micro-entrepreneurs: commercial banks, specialized NGO-type microfinance institutions, membership-based institutions...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 39649 Document Date: January 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bossoutrot,Sylvie K.
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An analysis of the trade regime in Senegal (2001) and UEMOA's common exsternal policies (English)
This note evaluates Senegal's trade regime in 2001 and UEMOA's common external trade policies, using the methodology developed in Hinkle et al (2003). We find that the trade regime was reasonably open...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 31270 Document Date: June 1, 2004 Author: Herrou-Aragon,Alberto A.,Kubota,Keiko