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  • Government Support and Firm Performance during COVID-19 (English)

    This paper assesses the medium-run effects of government support to firms during the COVID-19 crisis and whether the effectiveness of this support varied with its timing. Using data from three rounds of...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10641 Document Date: December 12, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bruhn,Miriam,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Singer,Dorothe

  • Bangladesh Development Update - Trade Reform : An Urgent Agenda (English)

    This report provides an assessment of the state of the economy in Bangladesh, the outlook, risks, and key reform challenges. It covers real sector developments, focusing on growth and its components; inflation;...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 189149 Document Date: April 1, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Long COVID : The Evolution of Household Welfare in Developing Countries during the Pandemic (English)

    This paper examines the welfare impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, using harmonized data from 343 high-frequency phone surveys conducted in 80 economies during 2020 and 2021, representing more than 2.5...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10300 Document Date: February 7, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brunckhorst,Ben James,Cojocaru,Alexandru,Hill,Ruth,Kim,Yeon Soo,Kugler,Maurice David

  • Electoral Cycles and Public Spending during the Pandemic (English)

    This paper uses a newly assembled data set on various types of social protection spending in 154 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 to analyze the effect of the electoral cycle on...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10214 Document Date: October 20, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lokshin,Michael M.,Rodriguez Ferrari,Aylen,Torre,Ivan

  • Lebanon Public Finance Review : Ponzi Finance? - Executive Summary (Arabic)

    The Public Finance Review (PFR) analyzes Lebanon’s public finances over a long horizon, to understand the roots of the fiscal profligacy and its eventual insolvency. To do so, the PFR links three critical...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 174716 Document Date: July 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Lebanon Public Finance Review : Ponzi Finance? - Executive Summary (English)

    The Public Finance Review (PFR) analyzes Lebanon’s public finances over a long horizon, to understand the roots of the fiscal profligacy and its eventual insolvency. To do so, the PFR links three critical...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 174716 Document Date: July 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Lebanon Public Finance Review : Ponzi Finance? - Executive Summary (French)

    The Public Finance Review (PFR) analyzes Lebanon’s public finances over a long horizon, to understand the roots of the fiscal profligacy and its eventual insolvency. To do so, the PFR links three critical...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 174716 Document Date: July 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Lebanon Public Finance Review : Ponzi Finance? (English)

    The Public Finance Review (PFR) analyzes Lebanon’s public finances over a long horizon, to understand the roots of the fiscal profligacy and its eventual insolvency. To do so, the PFR links three critical...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 174715 Document Date: June 30, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Colombia Public Finance Review (English)

    Over the past twenty years, fiscal policy has become one of the three pillars of macroeconomic stability for Colombia, the other two being the flexible exchange rate and inflation targeting. The credibility...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 168280 Document Date: December 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Revision de las Finanzas Publicas de Colombia - Resumen Ejecutivo (Spanish)

    Durante los últimos veinte años, la política fiscal ha sido uno de los tres pilares de la estabilidad macroeconómica colombiana, siendo los otros dos la tasa de cambio flexible y la orientación a la inflación...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 168281 Document Date: December 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • Inclusive service delivery (Arabic)

    The ongoing conflict in Yemen has led to substantial destruction of physical infrastructure and significant disruptions in public services, livelihoods, income and well-being of individuals and households...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 120534 Document Date: May 30, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Menon,Balakrishna,Beddies,Sabine W.,Balasuriya,Kanishka Senath

  • East Asia and Pacific economic update, April 2013 – a fine balance (Mongolian)

    This story highlights the fact that the East Asia and Pacific region continues to be an engine of global growth, contributing around 40 percent of global growth in 2012. Driven by strong domestic demand...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 177657 Document Date: June 10, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank

  • East Asia and Pacific economic update, April 2013 – a fine balance (English)

    This story highlights the fact that the East Asia and Pacific region continues to be an engine of global growth, contributing around 40 percent of global growth in 2012. Driven by strong domestic demand...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 177657 Document Date: April 15, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank