Governments can maintain full regulatory
control and yet fully liberalize restrictions to trade in
services. African Continental Free Trade Area
(AfCFTA's) protocol...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 162556Date: August 6, 2021
Governments can maintain full regulatory
control and yet fully liberalize restrictions to trade in
services. African Continental Free Trade Area
(AfCFTA's) protocol...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 162560Date: August 6, 2021
This short note is designed to assist
the Management Information Systems (MIS) unit and the
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Unit to keep
the webpage and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 162563Date: August 6, 2021
The objectives of the report are:
fundamental source of data and intelligence for negotiators
(in all areas); and critical to prepare the private sector
for the gradual...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 162443Date: August 3, 2021
This study focuses on: analyzing the
different international agreements regulating trade in
services in Africa ( covering at least one mode of supply);
determining whether...
Type: ReportReport#: 162377Date: August 2, 2021Author:
Echandi,Roberto
Through the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), the international community has recognized the
need for an approach to development that considers the
interdependence...
Type: ReportReport#: 162622Date: August 1, 2021Author:
Suit,Kilara Constance ;
Parizat,Roy ;
Friis,Anette Engelund ;
Kaushik,Ishita ;
Larson,Don ;
Nash,John D. ;
Di Persio,Jillian Ann
Côte d’Ivoire
remains at moderate risk of external debt distress. Despite
the COVID-19 shock, all the projected external debt burden
indicators are below...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 164321Date: August 1, 2021
The debt sustainability analysis (DSA)
indicates that St. Vincent and the Grenadines’
public debt is sustainable on a forward-looking basis but
remains at high...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 164369Date: August 1, 2021
Cameroon is at high risk of external and
overall public debt distress. Three out of four external
debt indicators breach the thresholds under the baseline
scenario,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 163266Date: August 1, 2021
Gender inequalities in the ownership,
control, and use of assets are a widespread and pervasive
development challenge. Persistent gender gaps remain in
women’s access...
Type: BriefReport#: 163873Date: August 1, 2021Author:
International Food Policy Research Institute ;
International Rescue Committee (IRC) ;
Oxford University ;
World Bank
Investors, including International
Finance Corporation (IFC) and other development finance
institutions, increasingly look at governance as an
indicator of firm quality...
Type: ReportReport#: 162129Date: July 27, 2021Author:
Karapetyan,Davit ;
Wasti,Nazeem A. ;
Volynets,Alexey K. ;
Di Miceli Da Silveira,Alexandre
Following its IPO, Blue Bird approached
International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support the
company’s efforts to strengthen its corporate governance
(CG) framework...
Type: ReportReport#: 162165Date: July 27, 2021Author:
Razook,James Christopher ;
Erkurtoglu Savas,Leyal
IFC has always believed that the private
sector is a powerful driver of growth. However, the private
sector will not be able to access capital markets, let alone
thrive...
Type: BriefReport#: 162125Date: July 26, 2021Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Pratiwi,Rahajeng ;
Erkurtoglu Savas,Leyal
This report aims to inform and better
equip World Bank task teams and development partners to
support the strengthening of Supreme Audit Institutions
(SAIs) in client...
Type: ReportReport#: 161841Date: July 23, 2021Author:
Gurazada,Srinivas ;
Nooryar,Zohra Farooq ;
Manuja,Arun ;
Wasika,Moses ;
El-Chami,Mona ;
Jacobs,Michael John ;
Mills,Zachary ;
Williamson,Timothy Stephen ;
Kim,Seongjun ;
Adegbenro,Kolajo Joshua ;
Saade,Lara ;
Ferreyra,Jose Carlos ;
Rice,Barbara Joan ;
Beers,Marlee Jennean ;
Lopez,Maria ;
Uvarova,Liudmila ;
Lopez,Bertin
This paper provides a diagnostic
framework (DF) for helping governments conceptualize and
develop desirable functions and institutional arrangements
for public investments...
This note presents lessons learned from
the World Bank’s decentralization projects in four Indian
states – Karnataka, Bihar, Kerala and West Bengal – between
2006-2019...
Type: ReportReport#: 161731Date: July 16, 2021Author:
Stoykov,Petar Georgiev ;
Yilmaz,Serdar
This paper introduces the new Tax
Treaties Explorer dataset, developed with support from the
World Bank and the G-24, and illustrates its use for
research by tax treaty...
Type: ReportReport#: 161524Date: July 12, 2021Author:
Hearson,Martin ;
Carreras,Marco ;
Custers,Anna Louise
The 2012 framework agreement on the
Bangsamoro acknowledges that the status quo is unacceptable
and that the Bangsamoro shall be established to replace the
autonomous...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 161514Date: July 12, 2021Author:
Sandoval,Maria Cleofe Gettie Catapang
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