Documents & Reports
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Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People’s Perspectives from Lower Silesia (English)
Part of a three-region set of papers analyzing coal-related labor market challenges in Poland, this paper focuses on Lower Silesia. The findings call for a more territorial-oriented approach to brokering...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 176479 Document Date: August 31, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Christiaensen,Luc,Ferré, Céline,Gajderowicz,Tomasz Janusz,Wrona,Sylwia Michalina
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Supporting Development in Emerging Markets (English)
Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to augment human intelligence and to radically alter how one access products and services, gather information, make products, and interact. In emerging...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 141431 Document Date: July 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Strusani,Davide,Houngbonon,Georges Vivien
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Measuring poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean : methodological considerations when estimating an empirical regional poverty line (English)
This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty comparisons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper exploits a unique, comprehensive...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125658 Document Date: April 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Castaneda Aguilar,Raul Andres,Gasparini,Leonardo Carlos,Garriga,Santiago,Lucchetti,Leonardo Ramiro,Valderrama,Cristina D.
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Report to the President of the IBRD and IDA on India’s Economic Development Effort, October 1, 1965 (English)
The Report to the President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development [IBRD] and the International Development Association [IDA] on India's Economic Development Effort, also known as...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 104705 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Information matters : improving budget literary and information transparency in the Kyrgyz Republic (Russian)
The Kyrgyz Republic has experienced significant political instability since its independence in 1991. In April 2005, the first president was forcibly removed from office after 15 years in power following...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 88392 Document Date: May 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bian,Nicholas Andrew,Kisunko,Gregory
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Sri Lanka : investment in human capital (English)
Education is one of the most important determinants of economic performance in the modern world. This is true of both countries and individuals. The main characteristic which distinguishes between advanced...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 89923 Document Date: May 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aturupane, Harsha , Savchenko, Yevgeniya , Shojo
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Arab donors' early response to the Arab Spring (English)
The World Bank's 2010 study, Arab Development Assistance: four decades of cooperation, and the subsequent note, Arab donors respond favorably to the global financial crisis (Rouis 2011), showed that the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 73004 Document Date: July 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rouis,Mustapha
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Private activity in infrastructure slowed down in the first half of 2011, compared to the same period in 2010 (English)
In the first half of 2011, 66 energy projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in 13 low and middle-income countries. Additionally, US$4.8 billion was invested in the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 73202 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Food, financial crises, and complex derivatives : a tale of high stakes innovation and diversification (English)
The 2008 food price crisis was an integral part of the financial crisis. In fact, the food price crisis was the second crisis in a chain of events that began in 2007 with the mortgage crisis, and culminated...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 65536 Document Date: November 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Songwe,Vera
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Reaching the poorest : lessons from the graduation model : Atteindre les plus pauvres : les lecons du modele de progression (French)
Microfinance is about extending financial access to poor and excluded people. However, apart from a few notable exceptions, microfinance has not typically reached extremely poor people those at the lowest...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 63336 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin,De Montesquiou Fezensac,Aude
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Reaching the poorest : lessons from the graduation model (Arabic)
Microfinance is about extending financial access to poor and excluded people. However, apart from a few notable exceptions, microfinance has not typically reached extremely poor people those at the lowest...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 63336 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin,De Montesquiou Fezensac,Aude
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Reaching the poorest : lessons from the graduation model (English)
Microfinance is about extending financial access to poor and excluded people. However, apart from a few notable exceptions, microfinance has not typically reached extremely poor people those at the lowest...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 63336 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin,De Montesquiou Fezensac,Aude
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Reaching the poorest : lessons from the graduation model : Llegar a los mas pobres: Ensenanzas derivadas del modelo de graduacion (Spanish)
Microfinance is about extending financial access to poor and excluded people. However, apart from a few notable exceptions, microfinance has not typically reached extremely poor people those at the lowest...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 63336 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin,De Montesquiou Fezensac,Aude
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Distortions to agricultural incentives in China and Southeast Asia (English)
This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 56131 Document Date: September 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Martin,William J.
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Climate variability and water resource degradation in Kenya - improving water resources development and management (English)
This report attempts to fill that gap for two of the most important water-related issues facing the effects of climate variability and the steady degradation of the nation's water resources. The study...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 34854 Document Date: July 10, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Davis,Richard Mark,Gichere, Samuel,Hirji,Rafik Fatehali,Mogaka,Hezron Rasugu
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Increasing the participation of Afro-descendants in Bank-funded projects in Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama (English)
A World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean Region's portfolio (projects) review was carried out with the aim of , (i) analyzing the reach of the Bank's Central America Environmentally and Socially Sustainable...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33227 Document Date: May 1, 2005 Author: Aoki,Sayo,Stubbs,Josefina
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Increasing the participation of Afro-descendants in Bank-funded projects in Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama : Aumentar la participacion de los descendientes de africanos en proyectos financiados por el Banco Mundial en Honduras, Nicaragua y Panama (Spanish)
A World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean Region's portfolio (projects) review was carried out with the aim of , (i) analyzing the reach of the Bank's Central America Environmentally and Socially Sustainable...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 33227 Document Date: May 1, 2005 Author: Aoki,Sayo,Stubbs,Josefina
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Malawi - Rural energy and institutional development (English)
This study reviews Malawi's policies in the biomass, rural electrification, and non-biomass renewable energy sub-sectors to identify problems and constraints to progress and to propose policies, initiatives...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 32846 Document Date: April 1, 2005 Author: Girdis,Dean,Hoskote,Mangesh
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 69 : financial statements and accountants' report (English)
On October 3, 2004, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number sixty-nine. It was resolved that: the Council of Governors of the Agency consider the...
Document Type: Board Report Report No.: 82442 Document Date: October 3, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Farmers as partners in knowledge development (English)
Knowledge can be classified into (i) explicit, which can be easily recorded (e.g., books) and (ii) tacit, which cannot be always articulated. However, much of this tacit knowledge can be shared. The conversion...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31259 Document Date: June 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed