As a result of a number of internal and
external shocks, Uganda’s economy is currently growing at
the lowest rate recorded over the past two decades. During
the first...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS21Date: June 30, 2017Author:
rg; ;
000153476:Rachel K. Sebudde:rsebudde@worldbank.o
Argentina’s improved sovereign credit
rating has helped to spur the recent sub-sovereign and
corporate bond issues. In early April 2016, Standard &
Poor’s upgraded Argentina’s...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 117054Date: June 28, 2017Author:
000012349:John Daniel Pollner:jpollner@worldbank ;
.org;
This annual report showcases another
successful year for the website, which reached for the first
time well over 1 million page views over the course of the
year (through...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 116606Date: June 21, 2017Author:
Kosasih,Winda D.
The World Bank in collaboration with
RAND has developed an online calculator that allows the user
to calculate and forecast the costs of the Syrian war. This
calculator...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115996Date: June 12, 2017Author:
Devarajan,Shantayanan ;
Mottaghi,Lili ;
Egel,Daniel ;
Kline,Joel R. ;
Robinson,Eric ;
Williams,Chara
Using recent Doing Business data, this
note provides an analysis of electricity sector constraints
across economies. The findings provide some interesting
insights....
Type: BriefReport#: 117320Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Arlet,Jean Nicolas
The objective of the Additional
Financing for the Citizens Charter Afghanistan Project is to
improve the delivery of core infrastructure, emergency
support, and social...
The development objective of the
Renewable Energy Fund (REF) Project for Rwanda is to
increase electricity access in Rwanda through off-grid
technologies and facilitate...
The objective of the Infrastructure for
Urban Development and Competitiveness of Secondary Cities
Project for Cote d’Ivoire is to create conditions for
improved competitiveness...
Kazakhstan is facing its greatest
economic challenge since the global crisis. With oil prices
at US$50 per barrel, the country urgently needs to adjust
its economic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114691Date: May 1, 2017
As a result of a number of internal and
external shocks, Uganda’s economy is currently growing at
the lowest rate recorded over the past two decades.
Therefore, current...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 117719Date: May 1, 2017Author:
Kaggwa Sebudde,Rachel ;
Shukla,Shyamala ;
Goffe,Valeriya ;
Sterwart,Fiona ;
Mawejje,Joseph ;
Olobo,Christopher
On request of the Ministry of Economic
Development and Trade of Ukraine, an NQI Market Gap
Assessment for Ukraine was conducted to inform various
reform initiatives...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 117885Date: May 1, 2017Author:
Uğur,Hüseyin ;
Mikhnev,Andrei ;
Kuzmina,Iryna
Latin America and the Caribbean does not
have the infrastructure it needs, or deserves, given its
income. Many argue that the solution is to spend more; by
contrast,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114110Date: April 6, 2017Author:
Fay,Marianne ;
Andres,Luis Alberto ;
Fox,Charles James Edward ;
Narloch,Ulf Gerrit ;
Straub,Stephane ;
Slawson,Michael Alan
Agricultural value chains play an
important role in providing financial services that help to
reduce risk, improve crop yields, manage liquidity, and
transact with markets....
Type: BriefReport#: 119216Date: April 1, 2017Author:
Mattern,Max William ;
Ramirez,Rossana Margarita
The World Bank and the government of
Japan launched the Japan-World Bank program for
mainstreaming disaster risk management (DRM) in developing
countries and the related...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 140999Date: March 6, 2017
The development objective of the Safety
Nets and Basic Services Project for Togo is to provide poor
communities and households with greater access to basic
socioeconomic...
Public-Private Dialogues (PPDs) are
known to convene policy makers, regulators, administrators
and private sector participants to the same table and
collaboratively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 116589Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Manchanda,Sumit
This paper develops a dynamic,
stochastic, general-equilibrium model to analyze and derive
simple budget rules in the face of volatile public revenue
from natural resources...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129200Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Devarajan,Shantayanan ;
Dissou,Yazid ;
Go,Delfin Sia ;
Robinson,Sherman
The infrastructure gap in South Asia is
a major challenge to connectivity and integration both
within countries and within the region. These gaps in basic
infrastructure...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 119310Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Sharafudheen,Tara
This guide is intended to support and
facilitate post disaster recovery of community
infrastructure with particular emphasis on: systematic
assessment of the nature,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114639Date: January 1, 2017
Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most
common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide
evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake
collective actions...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129171Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Casini, Paolo ;
Vandewalle,Lore Dries A. ;
Wahhaj, Zaki
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