Regional economic engagement within
South Asia may gain increasing importance owing to several
factors that are currently in play, including strategies to
diversify...
Type: PublicationReport#: 166159Date: November 18, 2021Author:
Kathuria,Sanjay ;
Yatawara,Ravindra A. ;
Zhu,Xiao’ou
The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes
Program (ASL) is an initiative funded by the Global
Environment Facility (GEF) that seeks to improve integrated
landscape management...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168555Date: November 18, 2021
Whereas the tax compliance literature
emphasizes verifying tax liability amounts, this paper
highlights two other tax capacity dimensions of particular
relevance in...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9852Date: November 17, 2021Author:
Okunogbe,Oyebola Motunrayo
Between 2017 and 2019, the International
Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Bank, in
collaboration with the Department of Census and Statistics
(DCS) of Sri Lanka,...
These results show how a psychological
mindset training targeted to women farmers can lead to
greater investment and entrepreneurship, helping their
households transition...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 166128Date: November 16, 2021Author:
Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.
Tax revenue in many low- and
middle-income countries is inadequate for funding
investments in public goods and human capital. With high
levels of informality and limited...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9848Date: November 15, 2021Author:
Okunogbe,Oyebola Motunrayo ;
Santoro,Fabrizio
The Pandora Papers highlight a worldwide
lack of transparency of information on who owns and controls
what and where. Unfortunately, trusts and complex corporate
structures...
Type: BriefReport#: 165999Date: November 11, 2021Author:
Cebreiro Gomez,Ana ;
Collin,Matthew Edward ;
Esquivel,Yara ;
De Magalhaes Pinto Almeida,Yasmin ;
Van der Does de Willebois,Emile J. M. ;
Anderson,James
The report benchmarks eight countries in
the Middle East and North Africa Region along the proposed
framework through a checklist of indicators, pointing to
policy gaps...
Type: ReportReport#: 165978Date: November 11, 2021Author:
Ait Ali Slimane,Meriem ;
Hasan,Md. Abir
Peru has the second highest number of
incident TB cases in the Americas, with increasing levels of
drug resistance, and often catastrophic out-of-pocket health
costs,...
This paper reviews the policies and
regulations for special economic zones and other spatial
development modalities in the countries within proximity of
the Eastern...
Type: ReportReport#: 165951Date: November 10, 2021Author:
Galal,Rami Mikko Ahmed
Subnational Doing Business in Brazil
2021 focuses on business regulations and their enforcement.
It goes beyond Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to benchmark
other Brazilian...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic has caused a major global economic downturn. This
has affected some sectors more than others. However, the
overall impact...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 165489Date: November 5, 2021Author:
Bowen,Alex
An accurate understanding of how input
use affects agricultural productivity in smallholder farming
systems is key to designing policies that can improve
productivity,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9841Date: November 5, 2021Author:
Yacoubou Djima,Ismael ;
Kilic,Talip
The Management Action Record (MAR) is a
key element of the World Bank Group’s
accountability framework. The MAR supports accountability in
the follow-up of Independent...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 164302Date: November 4, 2021
This paper revisits impact evaluation
studies on the largest public workfare in the world, NREGA.
In an environment where randomization is not feasible, I
show why an...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9835Date: November 3, 2021Author:
Bahal,Girish
Between 2017 and 2019, the International
Labor Organization (ILO) and World Bank completed a
multistage pilot study, in collaboration with the Department
of Census and...
This note presents the main trends in
strategic planning across public sector administrations in
seven countries: Australia, Canada, Brazil, Mexico,
Malaysia, South...
This report identifies and assesses
relevant physical and transition risks with focus on the
banking sector. Banks constitute the largest segment of the
Colombian financial...
Type: ReportReport#: 165843Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Reinders,Henk Jan ;
Regelink,Martijn Gert Jan ;
Calice,Pietro ;
Uribe,Mariana Escobar
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
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