Well-documented challenges face women
entrepreneurs leading to smaller, less profitable, and
slower growing firms than male-led firms (Bardasi, Sabarwal,
and Terrel...
Bangladesh has made rapid social and
economic progress in recent decades, reaching lower-middle
income status by 2015. Per capita, gross national income
(Atlas Method)...
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#: 161122Date: June 1, 2021
Sierra Leone is a low-income, small West
African country of approximately 7.65 million population.
Over the past decade, the country has made gains on several
health...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 160328Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Amponsah,Daniel ;
Amponsah,Kofi ;
Odutolu,Ayodeji Oluwole ;
Rassekh,Bahie Mary ;
Evlo,Kodjo ;
Tengbeh,Angus Fayia ;
Kiendrebeogo,Youssouf ;
Mansaray,Kemoh
The study uses the WDR 2018 systems
approach to undertake an exploration of failures and
weaknesses across various dimensions that are known to
impact learning outcomes....
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0002459Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Elghandour, Ibrahim ;
Burdescu,Ruxandra ;
Kay,Kerenssa Mayo ;
Samad,Zeeshan ;
Hasnain,Zahid ;
Mustafa, Turkan ;
Mukhtarova, Qizi ;
Andriamarofara,Hajarivony ;
Peixoto,Tiago Carneiro ;
Rajenarison,Lira Hariravaka ;
Rakotoarivony,Rary Adria ;
Rasoamahenina,Seheno Landivola
Procurement of commonly used items is a
challenge for government agencies. If the items are
repeatedly purchased in one-off fashion, so that the total
volume is significant,...
Type: ReportReport#: 162226Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Lal,Shanker ;
Cocciolo,Serena Sara Daniela ;
Samaddar,Sushmita ;
Pereira De Carvalho,Danilo ;
Arisoy,Elmas ;
Sharma,Vinay
The report Public Sector Advisory
Operations in Fragile Africa Markets presents lessons
learned and recommendations for improving project delivery
of public sector advisory...
Type: ReportReport#: 161295Date: June 1, 2021Author:
CrossBoundary LLC ;
International Finance Corporation
The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
Assessment aims to generate new metrics of entrepreneurship
to guide policy action as well as monitoring the
implementation of such policies....
Type: ReportReport#: 160308Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Mtonya,Brian G. ;
Tran,Trang Thu ;
Lee,Heejin
A disaggregated analysis of the tax
burdens and economic needs of the most economically
vulnerable - such as poor women and men, informal workers,
and owners of micro-...
Type: BriefReport#: 162142Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Komatsu,Hitomi ;
Koolwal,Gayatri B. ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile ;
Yonis,Manex Bule
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#: 161121Date: June 1, 2021
This report provides the findings of an
administrative inquiry by the World Bank Group Integrity
Vice presidency (INT) into allegations of misconduct
connection with...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 161120Date: June 1, 2021
This report surveys around 50 cost and
benefit studies of past and proposed legal aid programs
covering civil and common law jurisdictions in developed and
developing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 141985Date: May 31, 2021Author:
Harley,Georgia ;
Capita,Irina ;
Markovic,Milos ;
Panter,Elaine Rene Elizabeth ;
Scott-Moncrieff, Lucy
Having a single, universally applicable
tool for measuring the state of a country’s justice sector
can help judiciaries worldwide identify areas where each
could improve...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 159618Date: May 28, 2021Author:
Decker,Klaus
Having a single, universally applicable
tool for measuring the state of a country’s justice sector
can help judiciaries worldwide identify areas where each
could improve...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 159618Date: May 28, 2021
On 1 January 2020, Egypt’s government
implemented a new law that makes extensive changes to the
country's social insurance pension system, including
coverage, financing,...
In lower-income countries, the economic
contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread
of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the
mortality...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9677Date: May 27, 2021Author:
Ma,Lin ;
Shapira,Gil ;
De Walque,Damien B. C. M. ;
Do,Quy-Toan ;
Friedman,Jed ;
Levchenko,Andrei A.
Efforts to improve weather and climate
services involve both public and private actors in the
meteorological value chain governed by two determinants, to
protect society...
Type: BriefReport#: 159363Date: May 26, 2021Author:
Rogers,David ;
Tsirkunov,Vladimir V. ;
Thorpe,Alan John ;
Bogdanova,Anna-Maria ;
Suwa,Makoto ;
Md Kootval,Haleh Kootval ;
Hodgson,Stephen ;
Staudinger,Michael
The West Africa Coastal Areas Management
(WACA) Program is a convening Platform that assists Western
African countries in sustainably managingtheir coastal areas
and...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 159356Date: May 25, 2021
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