The COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis has
expanded public direct interventions through state banks and
enterprises to aid economies, but with possible risks to
debt sustainability,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 161118Date: October 13, 2021Author:
Melecky,Martin
In recent years, there has been renewed
interest in providing countercyclical lending and
sustainable development financing through national
development financial institutions...
Type: ReportReport#: 164925Date: October 8, 2021Author:
Gutierrez,Eva M. ;
Kliatskova,Tatsiana
Comoros’ risk of external debt distress
and overall risk of debt distress are high, a deterioration
from the finding of moderate risk in the DSA prepared for
the 2019...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 167365Date: October 1, 2021
Due to recent decentralization reforms,
municipalities now have important responsibilities in the
sustainable urban development of Mozambique. This paper
assesses the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9789Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Erman,Alvina Elisabeth ;
Solis Uehara,Carla Cristina ;
Beaudet,Chloé
Authorities in East Asia Pacific (EAP)
jurisdictions have adopted a battery of fiscal, monetary,
and financial measures aimed at mitigating the unprecedented
impacts...
Type: ReportReport#: 165488Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Aviles,Ana Maria ;
Pailhe,Cristina Alejandra ;
D'Hulster,Katia ;
Reddy,Rekha ;
Goyal,Sameer
At the beginning of the 20th century
less than 15 percent of people across the globe lived in
cities. This figure has risen to 50 percent (4.4 billion
people) today...
Type: BriefReport#: 165233Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Rose Innes,Cleo Elize ;
Casabianca,Brian A.
Analyzing public debt in low-income
developing countries (LIDCs) is like solving a puzzle with
many missing pieces. Forty percent of LIDCs have not
published any sovereign...
Type: ReportReport#: 165760Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Rivetti,Diego
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of
the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World
Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on
research by the team,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 165778Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Bruhn,Miriam ;
Cull,Robert J. ;
Zia,Bilal Husnain ;
Xu,L. Colin
Much as for the rest of the World Bank
Group, the past year has required an unprecedented degree of
adaptation and agility from all staff at the Independent
Evaluation...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 164205Date: September 30, 2021
Despite the devastating worldwide human
and economic tolls of the COVID-19 crisis, it has created
some positive economic and financial surprises and
opportunities for...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9782Date: September 23, 2021Author:
Berger,Allen N. ;
Demirguc-Kunt,Asli
Recent work draws attention to the
fragility of domestic tax revenues—a vital resource for the
developing world—to illicit financial flows. To cope with
two major challenges...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9781Date: September 23, 2021Author:
Combes,Jean-Louis ;
Minea,Alexandru ;
Sawadogo,Pegdewende Nestor
This paper exploits a novel dataset
covering the universe of transactions in the Colombian Stock
Exchange to analyze episodes of additions to and deletions
from MSCI...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9770Date: September 9, 2021Author:
Escobar,Mariana ;
Pandolfi,Lorenzo ;
Pedraza Morales,Alvaro Enrique ;
Williams,Tomas
Government initiatives to reduce the
housing deficit in Colombia go back more than a hundred
years, but it was only after the creation of the Ministry of
Housing as...
Type: ReportReport#: 164926Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Triveno Chan Jan,Luis Miguel ;
Velasco Bernal,Vanessa Alexandra ;
Rubiano Vargas,Diana Marcela ;
Saavedra,Victor ;
Forero,David ;
Rodriguez,Sebastian ;
Arango,Felipe
Sierra Leone’s debt is
sustainable. This is predicated on the
authorities’ ambitious fiscal adjustment and
continued reliance on concessional financing...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 164651Date: September 1, 2021
This report is part of a larger series
of stocktaking and analytical products on plastic pollution
in South Asia. It supports the Bank’s commitment to work
with countries...
Type: ReportReport#: 166738Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Patil,Pawan G. ;
Kumar,Monika ;
Tsydenova,Nina
Value added tax (VAT) is the largest
source of tax revenue on average in Latin America and the
Caribbean (LAC), at 27.7 percent of total tax revenues in
2019. The need...
This paper uses a unique survey data set
of 105 central banks to investigate whether investment
policies for central bank foreign reserve portfolios are
linked to the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9763Date: August 30, 2021Author:
Klingebiel,Daniela M. H. ;
Herrero Montes,Carmen Mileva ;
Ruiz Gil,Marco Antonio ;
Seward,James
The Multi-Partner Fund (MPF) for Somalia
has been the primary source of financing for the World Bank
Group’s early reengagement in Somalia after more than two
decades...
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