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
COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases in the
Philippines have surged since mid-July amid the local
transmissions of the highly infectious Delta variant. The
authorities responded...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 162956Date: August 1, 2021Author:
Chua,Kevin C. ;
Cruz,Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Enriquez,Karen Annette Lazaro ;
Santos,Eduard Renzo ;
Garces,Ludigil Laborte ;
Endo,Isaku ;
Qian,Rong ;
Moller,Lars Christian
The report reviews the recent
developments in the Vietnamese economy and discusses the
economy’s short- to medium-term prospects, highlighting
domestic and external...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 163180Date: August 1, 2021Author:
Madani,Dorsati H. ;
Morisset,Jacques
The two Punjab’s in India and Pakistan,
despite the boundaries, share the hazy skies and smog -often
aggravated during the crop burning season. For South Asia -
a region...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 163875Date: 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
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards’ calendar for the period from July to September
2021, specifying the Boards’ engagements, such as meetings
and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 162379Date: July 30, 2021
Despite advances in the growth reform
agenda in the last decade, Honduras remains the
second-poorest country in Central America, with one of the
lowest growth rates...
Can countries reorient their productive
capacity to become more environmentally friendly and
inclusive? To investigate this question, this paper uses a
standard input-output...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9742Date: July 29, 2021Author:
Taheripour,Farzad ;
Chepeliev,Maksym ;
Damania,Richard ;
Farole,Thomas ;
Lozano Gracia,Nancy ;
Russ,Jason Daniel
This paper presents empirical evidence
on the cyclicality of investments made by the International
Finance Corporation over the past 20 years and explores
their implications...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9746Date: July 29, 2021Author:
Blanco Cossio,Fernando Andres ;
Sachdeva,Niharika
This paper studies the growth of Chinese
imports into the United States from autarky during 1950–1970
to about 15 percent of overall imports in 2008, taking
advantage...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9741Date: July 29, 2021Author:
Alessandria,George ;
Khan,Shafaat Yar ;
Khederlarian,Armen ;
Ruhl,KimJ. ;
Steinberg,Joseph B.
Advances in agricultural data production
provide ever-increasing opportunities for pushing the
research frontier in agricultural economics and designing
better agricultural...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9745Date: July 29, 2021Author:
Carletto,Calogero ;
Dillon,Andrew S. ;
Zezza,Alberto
In the presence of credit constraints,
temporary migration abroad provides an effective strategy
for workers to accumulate savings to finance self-employment
when they...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9740Date: July 28, 2021Author:
Bossavie,Laurent Loic Yves ;
Gorlach,Joseph-Simon ;
Ozden,Caglar ;
Wang,He
How do trade shocks affect welfare and
inequality when human capital is endogenous? Using an
external information technology demand shock and detailed
internal migration...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9738Date: July 27, 2021Author:
Ghose,Devaki
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
The World Bank’s partnership for market
readiness (PMR), through grant support and technical
assistance, supported 23 emerging economies and developing
countries in...
Type: ReportReport#: 162134Date: July 27, 2021Author:
Baral,Prajwal ;
Faleye,Oluwafemi
Foreign direct investment (FDI) can
contribute significantly towards India reaching its
aspiration of 8 percent growth per annum. Prior to 2009,
India did not have a...
Type: ReportReport#: 161459Date: July 26, 2021Author:
Phillips, Joe ;
Heilbron,Armando ;
Kher,Priyanka
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 paper provides a diagnostic
framework (DF) for helping governments conceptualize and
develop desirable functions and institutional arrangements
for public investments...
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