These results show how a psychological
mindset training targeted to women farmers can lead to
greater investment and entrepreneurship, helping their
households transition...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 166128Date: November 16, 2021Author:
Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.
The training program aims to assist
banks and regulators to assess the potential benefits of
targeting the SME sector, helping banks build or expand
their SME business...
Type: ReportReport#: 171213Date: November 13, 2021Author:
World Bank
The development objective of Tunisia
Delivery Unit Project is to endow the Prime
Minister’s (PM) Office with an innovative and
efficient delivery unit dedicated...
Type: ReportReport#: 170084Date: October 31, 2021Author:
World Bank
Umbrella facility for gender equality
(UFGE) grant helped fill and key lessons learned that will
be of interest to other practitioners or researchers. This
grant supported...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 163329Date: August 25, 2021
At the time of independence, in 1991,
Ukraine had a monolithic state-run power sector. Its main
concern was to transform the sector into a more efficient
and competitive...
Type: ReportReport#: 168507Date: July 31, 2021Author:
Bacon,Robert W.
A vast literature shows the importance
of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but
whether they matter in getting hired remains unanswered.
This study seeks...
Type: ReportReport#: 161363Date: July 2, 2021Author:
Nas Ozen,Selin Efsan ;
Hut,Stefan ;
Levin,Victoria ;
Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria
A national financial-inclusion strategy
(NFIS) helps policy makers, in coordination with a wide
range of stakeholders, define objectives and outline a set
of impactful,...
Type: ReportReport#: 163026Date: June 25, 2021Author:
Gradstein,Helen Luskin ;
Arsana,I Gede Putra ;
Ul Haq,Imtiaz ;
Achew,Mengistu Bessir ;
Shaikh,Sarmad Ahmed ;
Zottel,Siegfried ;
Khalil,Uzma
Disclosure and transparency are
cornerstones of financial consumer protection and are key
drivers of trust in the financial system. A key facts
statement (KFS) is an...
Type: ReportReport#: 163013Date: June 25, 2021Author:
Gradstein,Helen Luskin
A significant share of Egypt’s private
sector is informal. The share of informal firms based on the
CAPMAS Establishment Census (CEC) are the businesses that
have a...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 160408Date: June 15, 2021Author:
Rahman,Aminur
Informal jobs are often bad jobs,
unproductive, poorly paid, risky, and unprotected. Informal
firms perform poorly than their formal counterparts in terms
of firm productivity,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 160352Date: June 13, 2021Author:
Rahman,Aminur ;
Wes,Marina ;
Pesme,Jean Denis ;
Carey,Kevin ;
Hoogeveen,Johannes G. ;
Ardic Alper,Oya Pinar
This report presents the evaluation of
Biscate, a digital labor market matching platform for
informal services workers in Mozambique. The platform aims
to facilitate...
This report presents the results of the
analysis of data collected on workers and clients using
Biscate, a digital labor market matching platform for
informal services...
Type: ReportReport#: 159912Date: June 2, 2021Author:
Ricaldi,Federica ;
Ramirez Mata,Jorge Cesar ;
Martins,Pedro
This report summarizes the findings of a
World Bank Group Integrity Vice Presidency (INT)
administrative inquiry into allegations of misconduct in
connection with the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 161119Date: June 1, 2021
This report provides the findings of an
administrative inquiry by the World Bank Group Integrity
Vice Presidency (INT) into allegations of misconduct in
connection with...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 161123Date: June 1, 2021
While the importance of financial
capability has been studied empirically, questions remain
about program effectiveness, whether and how effectively
these skills can...
In the early 1990s,
Colombia’s publicly owned power sector was
financially distressed and poorly managed, becoming a risk
for the country’s macroeconomic...
Type: ReportReport#: 168506Date: May 31, 2021Author:
Rudnick Van De Wyngard,Hugh ;
Velásquez, Constantin
By the late 1980s, Peru was in a
desperate macroeconomic situation and its power sector was
in crisis due to distorted tariffs, poor performing
utilities and frequent...
Type: ReportReport#: 168508Date: May 31, 2021Author:
Rudnick Van De Wyngard,Hugh ;
Velásquez, Constantin
The World Bank Financial Sector Advisory
Center (FinSAC) offers specialized technical assistance to
client countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA)
region, supporting...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 159563Date: May 13, 2021
Court proceedings play a key role in
contributing to the [in]effectiveness of bank liquidation
and resolution procedures. European Union (EU) countries
that took resolution...
Type: ReportReport#: 159562Date: May 1, 2021Author:
Lintner,Pamela
This note documents the experience of
several countries that leveraged these tools under the
Financial Inclusion Support Framework (FISF) program. FISF
is a World Bank...
Type: ReportReport#: 160025Date: May 1, 2021Author:
Ul Haq,Imtiaz ;
Delort,Dorothee ;
Arsana,I Gede Putra ;
Casal,Julian ;
Sarkar,Arpita-000514012 ;
Galicia Rabadan,Guillermo Alfonso ;
Kilfoil,Craig Patrick
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