The Paris Agreement provides a framework
for all countries - both developed and developing - to
voluntarily adopt individual targets, elaborated in their
nationally...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 163371Date: August 26, 2021
This paper employs a matched firm
production/innovation panel data set from Chile to explore
the response of firm innovation to the increased competition
arising from...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9757Date: August 23, 2021Author:
Cusolito,Ana Paula ;
Garcia Marin,Alvaro Felipe ;
Maloney,William F.
This paper examines the impact of the
legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return
to the home country. Using unique data from the Arab
Republic of Egypt,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9753Date: August 23, 2021Author:
Elmallakh,Nelly Youssef Louis William ;
Wahba,Jackline
The Multi-Partner Fund (MPF) for Somalia
has been the primary source of financing for the World Bank
Group’s early reengagement in Somalia after more than two
decades...
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by the World Bank Group President David Malpass to
the Summit of the Heads of State of the Central African
Economic and Monetary...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 163094Date: August 18, 2021Author:
Malpass,David
How do tariffs impact gender inequality?
Using harmonized household survey and tariff data from 54
low- and middle-income countries, this paper shows that
protectionism...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9750Date: August 17, 2021Author:
Artuc,Erhan ;
Depetris Chauvin,Nicolas M. ;
Porto,Guido ;
Rijkers,Bob
The predictions of different classic
migration theories are tested by using incentivized
laboratory experiments to investigate how potential migrants
decide between...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9751Date: August 17, 2021Author:
Batista,Catia ;
Mckenzie,David J.
The methodical collection of data helps
in monitoring performance of management, staff, and board.
This means appropriate and supporting information systems
must be...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162985Date: August 16, 2021
Over the 2016-2018 reporting period,
Utility Performance and Behavior in Africa Today (UPBEAT)
gathered data on utilities, both publicly and privately
owned, in countries...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162988Date: August 16, 2021
For many utilities, the difference
between the recovery of operating costs and the recovery of
operating plus debt-service costs is small. This indicates
that debt-service...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162986Date: August 16, 2021
Robust corporate governance is vital if
power utilities are to perform well (Irwin and Yamamoto
2004; Foster and Rana 2020). Corporate governance has
internal and external...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162891Date: August 12, 2021Author:
Semikolenova,Yadviga Viktorivna ;
Driscall,Ian ;
A Lee, Min
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
Panama’s growth model is at
crossroads and the country must be prepared for the new
growth model. The objective of this study is to investigate
the drivers and...
Type: ReportReport#: 162550Date: August 6, 2021Author:
Ulku,Hulya ;
Zaourak,Gabriel Roberto
Central America comprises a diverse set
of countries, including two high-middle-income countries
(Costa Rica and Panama), two of the poorest countries in
Latin America...
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 Code of Conduct for Board Officials,
as revised and adopted by the Executive Directors of the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the
International...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 131464Date: August 6, 2021
Ethiopia is at a very promising yet
critical juncture in its path towards development. Its
incipient success in attracting efficiency-seeking Foreign
Direct Investment...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 162393Date: August 3, 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
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