Vietnam has a significant state-owned
enterprise (SOE) sector - among the largest in the world. It
comprises over 2,200 national enterprises, representing over
25 percent...
Type: ReportReport#: 166052Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Seiderer,Fabian
Innovation is crucial to improving
productivity and fostering sustainable growth, especially
among countries that are moving toward or are at the cutting
edge of technological...
Type: BriefReport#: 165752Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Cao,Yu
Through Bank Reimbursable Advisory
Services (RAS), the government of Romania accesses
international experience and global best practice in pursuit
of strengthening government...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 165692Date: October 28, 2021
This report presents the results of the
benchmarking analysis carried out in 2021, which is a
combined analysis of the results from the 2018-2019
benchmarking exercise...
This diagnostic has been conducted with
the sole purpose of serving the ongoing development of
social protection policy in the country. It is the Bank’s
hope that t...
Type: ReportReport#: 165241Date: October 19, 2021Author:
van der Straaten,Jaap ;
Vassor,Emmanuel Claude Bernard
Supreme audit institutions (SAIs)
recognize the benefits of using technology to improve the
quality and impact of their audits. This benefit has further
intensified...
Many countries seek to improve women’s
economic participation with the introduction of targeted
laws and regulations. The impact of these reforms appears
significant,...
Type: ReportReport#: 165187Date: October 18, 2021Author:
Adnane,Souad
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
Governments have been using technology
to modernize the public sector for decades. The World Bank
Group (WBG) has been a partner in this process, providing
both financing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164081Date: October 13, 2021Author:
Dener,Cem ;
Nii-Aponsah,Hubert ;
Ghunney,Love Emma ;
Johns,Kimberly D.
This paper presents a new methodology to
detect corruption in customs and applies it to
Madagascar’s main port. Manipulation of
assignment of import declarations...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9802Date: October 12, 2021Author:
Chalendard,Cyril Romain ;
Fernandes,Ana Margarida ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F. ;
Rijkers,Bob
International Debt Statistics (IDS), a
long-standing annual publication of the World Bank, features
external debt statistics and analysis for the 123 low- and
middle-income...
Type: PublicationReport#: 165022Date: October 11, 2021Author:
Rucaj,Evis ;
Agarwal,Parul-000490117 ;
Albarran Cortes,Arturo ;
Balibek,Arzu Aytekin ;
Bayar,Kifaye Didem ;
Bolanos Misas,Daniella Kathyuska ;
Church Jr,Allen Charles ;
Huang,Wendy Ven-Dee ;
Pollock,Malvina A. ;
Sukaj,Rubena ;
To,Tin Yu ;
Vellos,Rasiel Victor ;
Zymeri,Bedri
This paper contributes to a
long-standing debate in development practice: Under what
conditions can externally established participatory groups
engage in the collective...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9798Date: October 7, 2021Author:
Thapa,Dikshya ;
Farid,Muhammad Noor ;
Prevost,Christophe
The objective of this Paper is to
provide a GovTech roadmap (FY2022-2024) for the Bank and the
Governance Global Practice. The roadmap will reflect
evolving client priorities...
Type: ReportReport#: 165838Date: October 7, 2021Author:
World Bank
In 2019, an Independent Evaluation Group
review on the growing use of social contracts terminology by
the World Bank concluded that social contract diagnostics
are useful...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9788Date: October 4, 2021Author:
Cloutier,Mathieu
The economic outlook for the Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) economies appears far rosier now
than it did even six months ago. Increased investment and
consumption both...
Governments, development institutions,
and the private sector are increasingly turning to
nature-based solutions to address the world’s climate and
biodiversity crisis....
Type: ReportReport#: 165782Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Frechette,Alain ;
Childress,Malcolm D. ;
Smyle,Jim ;
Sander,Logan ;
Corcoran,Christen
This book offers an in-depth analysis of
the concept of the direct enforcement of foreign restraint
and confiscation orders, a crucial step in the process of
asset recovery,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 166909Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Betti,Stefano ;
Kozin, Vladimir ;
Brun,Jean Pierre
This paper presents a new approach to
measuring Global Value Chain (GVC) participation, essential
for informed policy-making. It introduces a tripartite
classification...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9785Date: September 28, 2021Author:
Borin,Alessandro ;
Mancini,Michele ;
Taglioni,Daria
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
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