Documentos e Relatórios

Investing for Impact : Operating Principles for Impact Management (Inglês)

Impact investments have the potential to make a significant contribution to important outcomes by addressing challenges related to, for example, economic inequality, access to clean water and sanitation...

Enforcing Competition and Firm Productivity : Evidence from 1,800 Peruvian Municipalities (Inglês)

This paper uses a unique data set that captures the elimination of subnational regulatory barriers to firm entry and competition across 1,800 municipalities and matches it with establishment census panel...

Study on the competitiveness of the industry manufacturing ivoirienne : Étude sur la compétitivité de l'industrie manufacturière ivoirienne (Francês)

This paper is a Study on Competitiveness of the manufacturing Industry in the Ivory Coast. It asserts that after over a decade of conflict and socio-political crisis, the economy of Côte d'Ivoire was experiencing...

The World Bank economic review 29 (3) (Inglês)

The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal used for the dissemination of research in development economics broadly relevant to the development profession and to the World Bank in pursuing...

How bank competition affects firms access to finance (Inglês)

Using multi-year, firm-level surveys for 53 countries, this paper explores the impact of bank competition on firms’ access to finance. The authors find that low competition, as measured by high values...

How bank competition affects firms' access to finance (Inglês)

Combining multi-year, firm-level surveys with country-level panel data for 53 countries, the authors explore the impact of bank competition on firms' access to finance. They find that low competition...

Mauritania - Telecommunication And Postal Sector Reform (Inglês)

Competition in mobile telecoms (Inglês)

Many governments, particularly in developing and emerging market economies, still doubt the benefits of competition in wireless services. But international experience shows that competition in any of the...