Documentos e Relatórios
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September 2024 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) : What’s New (Inglês)
The September 2024 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) introduces several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. This document details these changes and the methodological...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 193585 Data do documento: 18 de setembro de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Danielle Victoria Aron,R.Andres Castaneda Aguilar,Carolina Diaz-Bonilla,Tony Henri Mathias Jany Fujs,Diana Carolina Garcia Rojas,Ruth Hill,Ma Llane Loren Torres Jularbal,Christoph Lakner,Gabriel Lara Ibarra,Daniel Gerszon Mahler,Minh Cong Nguyen
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Opportunities for Linking Fisheries Management and Social Protection in Solomon Islands (Inglês)
Social protection and jobs programs (SPJ) can improve livelihoods and reduce vulnerability in coastal fishing communities in Solomon Islands, but these programs must be designed in a way that responds...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 192603 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Anita Kendrick,Vincenzo Vinci,Xavier F.P. Vincent,Fiona Howell,Son H. Nguyen
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Bridging the Gap Between Data and Policies in Remote Rural Municipalities in Nepal (Inglês)
Nepal's transition to a federal system provides new optimism to achieve inclusive development and economic growth. However, the scarcity of locally disaggregated data and lack of capacity to use it stymie...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 157078 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Walcher,Alexandra,Adhikary,Phanindra,Tamang,Urmila,Uematsu,Hiroki,Banick,Robert Steven,Maharjan,Liza,Shrestha,Tanuja
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Exploring the Potential of Gender Parity to Promote Economic Growth (Inglês)
Narrowing the gender gap is critical to sustainable and inclusive growth. This brief discusses how moving toward gender equality can improve female labor force participation, human capital, and total factor...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 153893 Data do documento: 27 de outubro de 2020 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Devadas,Sharmila,Kim,Young Eun
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Do Crises hit Female-Managed and Male-Managed Firms Differently? Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis (Inglês)
While efforts are currently in place to collect data on the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, this note looks at the experience of the 2008 financial crisis to gain insights on possible differential...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 152886 Data do documento: 10 de setembro de 2020 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ahmed,Tanima,Muzi,Silvia,Ueda,Kohei
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Theoretical Underpinnings of Jobs Diagnostics (Inglês)
This paper is a work-in-progress and was developed to advance our thinking on how to make Jobs Diagnostics more strategic and to explore how guidance can best bridge the link from jobs analysis through...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Report No. do relatório: 147121 Data do documento: 20 de março de 2020 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Lachler,Ulrich,Merotto,Dino Leonardo
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Russia Economic Report, May 2018, No. 39: Modest growth ahead (Russo)
Global growth continued its 2017 momentum in early 2018. Global growth reached a stronger than- expected 3 percent in 2017 — a notable recovery from a post-crisis low of 2.4 percent in 2016. It is currently...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 127254 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2018 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed
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Russia Economic Report, May 2018, No. 39: Modest growth ahead (Inglês)
Global growth continued its 2017 momentum in early 2018. Global growth reached a stronger than- expected 3 percent in 2017 — a notable recovery from a post-crisis low of 2.4 percent in 2016. It is currently...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 127254 Data do documento: 1 de maio de 2018 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed
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Universal health coverage in low-income countries : Tanzania’s efforts to overcome barriers to equitable health service access (Inglês)
During the past decade, Tanzania has experienced steady economic growth, with average annual growth rates of between 6 and 7 percent. Despite this positive trend in the economy, poverty rates have not...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 122815 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2018 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Wang,Huihui,Rosemberg,Nicolas
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Technology-enabled supply chain finance for small and medium enterprises is a major growth opportunity for banks (Inglês)
In most emerging markets, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), lack access to the credit and liquidity they require for their daily working capital needs. This is partly due to the fact that the credit...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 118730 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Saleem,Qamar,Hommes,Martin,Sorokina,Aksinya
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Headaches, concerns, and regrets : what does the experience of 102 Brazilian directors tell us? (Inglês)
This paper takes a look inside the functioning of the modern corporate board “black box.” Using results of an anonymous online survey, it investigates the experiences and behavior of 102 Brazilian directors—from...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 115717 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Guerra,Sandra,Santos,Rafael Liza
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Research grants for science-industry collaboration : do they spur innovation? (Inglês)
Collaborations between science and industry are becoming increasingly important for the innovation process, in part because many new inventions are directly rooted in science, such as biotechnology, information...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 112126 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Bruhn,Miriam,Mckenzie,David J.
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Education Project – Tunisia (Inglês)
This was the first World Bank Group financing for education. The purpose of the project was to provide assistance for the most crucial requirements of the Tunisian school system by financing the construction...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 104672 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed
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A decade of declining earnings inequality in the Russian Federation (Inglês)
Wage inequality decreased significantly in the Russian Federation over the 2000s. The economic expansion experienced throughout the decade led to an improvement in social indicators, With a large reduction...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 125413 Data do documento: 1 de agosto de 2015 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Calvo,Paula Andrea,López-Calva,Luis Felipe,Posadas,Josefina
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Reducing dwell time to boost efficiency at the Port of Cotonou (Inglês)
The Port of Cotonou is of primary importance to economic growth and diversification in Benin. Furthermore, given its key geographic location as a port serving Niger and other land-locked countries to its...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 79712 Data do documento: 1 de julho de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Macwilliam,David Cal
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National transfer accounts analysis for Sri Lanka (Inglês)
Sri Lanka has been going through a demographic transition triggered by decreasing fertility and increasing life expectancy. The demographic transition is marked by two stages. During the first stage, the...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 74170 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Nikitin,Denis,De Silva,Weraduwage Indralal,Jayasekara, Tissa
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Turkey - Comercializing sustainable energy finance program : case study (Inglês)
Financial intermediaries in Turkey do not typically have the expertise and technical capacity to evaluate or identify sustainable energy projects. They also have limited access to the long term funding...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 76169 Data do documento: 1 de agosto de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed
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Brazil - How to decrease freight logistics costs in Brazil (Inglês)
The ultimate goal of this work is to provide recommendations to the Brazilian government, private sector and non-governmental organizations for the preparation of a freight logistics policy agenda that...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 46885 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed
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Roma inclusion is smart economics : illustrations from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania and Serbia (Inglês)
Roma are Europe's largest and poorest minority group, as well as one of its fastest growing populations, with approximately 70 percent Roma living in Central and Eastern Europe. A large share of new labor...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 62256 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: De Laat,Joost,Bodewig,Christian
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MENA's non-oil export performance in the last decade (Inglês)
The political events reshaping the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region underlines that the key to political stability and renewed growth is going to depend on enabling more inclusive political and...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 62241 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ianchovichina,Elena