Documents & Reports
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Deep Tech Solutions for Emerging Markets (English)
Deep tech companies aim to address the world’s biggest challenges. These include providing Internet access to the unconnected, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, significantly increasing productivity gains...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 154597 Document Date: November 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nedayvoda,Anastasia,Mockel,Peter,Lana,Graf
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Job quality and poverty in Latin America (English)
Labor market dynamics have played a significant role in the remarkable social gains experienced across Latin America over the recent past. Assessing the quality of employment, beyond the perspective of...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125641 Document Date: December 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brummund,Peter,Mann,Christopher Ryan,Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
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Serving smallholder farmers : recent developments in digital finance (English)
This focus note introduces some recent developments in this rapidly changing space. The featured case studies (i) identify traditional pain points in serving smallholder farmers (such as the cost and risk...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90957 Document Date: June 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Grossman,Jeremiah Lajos,Tarazi,Ala Michael
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors resolution ; no. 94 : financial statements and the report of the independent accountants (English)
On October 11, 2013, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number ninety-four. It was resolved that the Council of Governors of the Agency should consider...
Document Type: Board Report Report No.: 82467 Document Date: October 11, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Supporting access to finance for micro, small and medium enterprises with partial credit guarantees : the Moroccan experience (English)
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) represent an important pillar of the Moroccan economy. Estimates indicate they account for more than 90 percent of all enterprises and contribute to 21.6 percent...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 80245 Document Date: April 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Abdel Aziz,Teymour
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Supporting access to finance for micro, small and medium enterprises with partial credit guarantees : the Moroccan experience (English)
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) represent an important pillar of the Moroccan economy. Estimates indicate they account for more than 90 percent of all enterprises and contribute to 21.6 percent...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 77085 Document Date: April 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Abdel Aziz,Teymour
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Rail transport : framework for improving railway sector performance in Sub-Saharan Africa : Transport ferroviaire : schema d'analyse pour ameliorer la performance du rail en Afrique Subsaharienne (French)
In most of the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries railways have played, throughout history, a key part in the economic development maintaining a dominant role in transporting freight and passengers at...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 78672 Document Date: March 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Olievschi, Vasile Nicolae
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Rail transport : framework for improving railway sector performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)
In most of the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries railways have played, throughout history, a key part in the economic development maintaining a dominant role in transporting freight and passengers at...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 78672 Document Date: March 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Olievschi, Vasile Nicolae
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Capacity building under reimbursable technical assistance programs : the case of Oman's education sector (English)
A World Bank team worked closely with the Ministry of Education (MoE) on the Oman education sector study which was launched in October 2012. The Minister of Education expressed, at different occasions...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 75657 Document Date: February 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wang,Lianqin
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What does the future hold for the international banking system? (English)
The international banking industry faces a challenging future, having to consolidate at a time of heightened global financial volatility, anemic growth in advanced countries, and shifting global growth...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 73368 Document Date: October 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dailami,Mansoor,Adams-Kane,Jonathon
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Agricultural price distortions, inequality, and poverty : introduction and summary (English)
Reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions affecting agriculture in developing countries, particularly by cuts to agricultural export taxes and by some reductions in government assistance...
Report No.: 55933 Document Date: August 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Cockburn,John Murray,Martin, Will
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Social resilience and state fragility in Haiti : breaking the conflict-poverty trap (English)
Haiti is a resilient society whose rural communities in particular have developed coping mechanisms in response to a long history of underdevelopment and poor governance. Like other fragile states, however...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 38014 Document Date: September 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Heinemann,Alessandra,Verner,Dorte
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Social resilience and state fragility in Haiti : breaking the conflict-poverty trap : Tenacidad social y fragilidad estatal en Haiti : rompiendo el ciclo conflicto-pobreza (Spanish)
Haiti is a resilient society whose rural communities in particular have developed coping mechanisms in response to a long history of underdevelopment and poor governance. Like other fragile states, however...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 38014 Document Date: September 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Heinemann,Alessandra,Verner,Dorte
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Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania : priority fruit species and products for tree domestication and commercialisation (English)
In collaboration with partners, the World Agro-forestry Centre established a number of fruit processing groups in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. These groups are actively involved in the processing...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37078 Document Date: July 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ham, Cori
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Brazil - how do the peri-urban poor meet their energy needs: a case study of Caju Shantytown, Rio de Janeiro (English)
The phenomenon of poverty has traditionally been measured based on the individual's income. However, more recently, the debate over poverty has evolved beyond income or lack of it. The condition in which...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 36003 Document Date: February 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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South Africa - sources and constraints of long-term growth 1970-2000 (English)
This paper is a result of a wider policy research and knowledge work on growth and jobs issues in South Africa, which the World Bank promotes in collaboration with leading South African researchers. The...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 34998 Document Date: December 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fedderke,Johannes Wolfgang
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Labor market regulations for women: are they beneficial? (Russian)
This note considers the impacts on female workers of two forms of labor market regulations common in developing countries: mandated maternity benefits and working-hour restrictions for women. Anecdotal...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 32872 Document Date: December 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Selm,Alexandra
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Labor market regulations for women: are they beneficial? (English)
This note considers the impacts on female workers of two forms of labor market regulations common in developing countries: mandated maternity benefits and working-hour restrictions for women. Anecdotal...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 32872 Document Date: December 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Selm,Alexandra
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Labor market regulations for women: are they beneficial? (Arabic)
This note considers the impacts on female workers of two forms of labor market regulations common in developing countries: mandated maternity benefits and working-hour restrictions for women. Anecdotal...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 32872 Document Date: December 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Selm,Alexandra
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Labor market regulations for women: are they beneficial? : Reglamentos del mercado laboral para la mujer: representan algun beneficio? (Spanish)
This note considers the impacts on female workers of two forms of labor market regulations common in developing countries: mandated maternity benefits and working-hour restrictions for women. Anecdotal...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 32872 Document Date: December 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Selm,Alexandra