Notwithstanding its significant
downsizing due to the country´s transition from a planned to
a market economy, the public sector in Kyrgyz Republic still
owns one hundred...
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#: 157544Date: March 1, 2021
Mexico has made great strides recently
in its fight against climate change. The enactment of the
Climate Change Law in 2012 and its reform in 2018 led to the
creation...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0002147Date: March 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#: 157547Date: March 1, 2021
Doing Business is recognized as highly
influential in business regulatory reform worldwide, and it
is the most used set of indicators on business regulation.
Its indicators...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 157012Date: February 25, 2021
Colombia has the highest rate of
recurrent disasters due to natural phenomenon in Latin
America with more than 600 disasters per year. The heavy
rainfall during the...
Type: ReportReport#: 156951Date: February 22, 2021
The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), has
articulated a roadmap for investment climate reforms in the
areas covered by the World Bank Group (WBG) doing business
(DB) report...
Type: ReportReport#: 156639Date: February 15, 2021
The goal of Sri Lanka’s national quality
infrastructure (NQI) strategy is to set quality-related
functions on a course to provide high-performance services
that allow...
Type: ReportReport#: 156641Date: February 15, 2021
Despite its increasing importance
worldwide, trade in services remains to be less transparent,
more restrictive and more procedurally burdensome than trade
in goods....
Type: ReportReport#: 158896Date: February 5, 2021Author:
Echandi,Roberto
Mali remains at moderate risk of both
external and overall debt distress, consistent with the
joint Bank-Fund assessment from May 2020, but
vulnerabilities have increased....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 158066Date: February 2, 2021
The country remains in debt distress due
to prolonged unsettled external arrears. In addition, the
large domestic arrears of the loss-making state-owned
utility company...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 157271Date: February 1, 2021
This document constitutes project
deliverable “D6.1 Data Collection Report” and is part of the
WP6 Data Collection. The document details quantitative
information gathered...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 165817Date: February 1, 2021
Effective institutions and systems of
public financial management (PFM) play a critical role in
the preparation and response to disasters. Strong PFM ties
together often...
Effective institutions and systems of
public financial management (PFM) play a critical role in
the preparation and response to disasters. Strong PFM ties
together often...
The objective of this practice note is
to explore how to better procure GovTech solutions. The note
provides recommendations to World Bank teams and client
countries...
Type: ReportReport#: 156152Date: January 27, 2021Author:
Wu Chebili,Blandine Marie ;
Valentine,Justin Andrews ;
Mells,Travis ;
Flanagan,Kelly ;
La Cascia,Joseph Huntington
Theory suggests several ways in which
exporting may benefit women’s employment. However, the
empirical evidence is mixed and limited, especially for
developing countries....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9527Date: January 27, 2021Author:
Amin,Mohammad ;
Islam,Asif Mohammed
This paper addresses several
shortcomings in the productivity and markup estimation
literature. Using Monte-Carlo simulations, the analysis
shows that the methods in...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9523Date: January 21, 2021Author:
Sampi Bravo,James Robert Ezequiel ;
Jooste,Charl ;
Vostroknutova,Ekaterina
This report presents the work program
priorities for the first two years of the World Bank's
GovTech global partnership (GTGP), drawing upon the trends
in GovTech applications...
Type: ReportReport#: 155476Date: January 5, 2021Author:
Johns,Kimberly D. ;
Dener,Cem ;
Hao,Wei ;
Ghunney,Love Emma ;
Haslinger,Reinhard ;
Kumagai,Saki ;
Damo Cordova,Yasodara Maria ;
Goncalves,Eduardo Da Costa ;
Barzelay,Adele Moukheibir
This study focuses on analyzing the
different international agreements regulating trade in
services in Africa. From the outset, this study recognizes
that the gradual...
Type: ReportReport#: 158897Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Echandi,Roberto
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