Well-documented challenges face women
entrepreneurs leading to smaller, less profitable, and
slower growing firms than male-led firms (Bardasi, Sabarwal,
and Terrel...
The objective of this study is to
support the government of Armenia to identify the
constraints and develop a financing roadmap for mobilization
of private and commercial...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 160659Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Zalinyan,Emil ;
Kochnakyan,Artur
As innovation in retail payments
continues and the systems evolve, effective governance of
them becomes more complicated and increases in importance.
Retail payment...
Type: ReportReport#: 163464Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Ramteke,Nilima Chhabilal ;
Banka,Holti ;
Jensen,Peter Christian Moeller ;
Mortimer-Schutts,Ivan Daniel
The government of Serbia (GoS) aims to
increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Public
Investment. With these goals in mind the Ministry of Finance
(MoF) had previously...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 161342Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Fallov,Jonas Arp ;
Darcy,Martin ;
Drecun,Aleksandra ;
Markovic,Milos
The June 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring
discusses some of the following topics : The fourth outbreak
of coronavirus has led to the sharpest rise in number of
COVID-19...
In recent decades, the agriculture and
fisheries sector in the Philippines has grown but has
clearly not lived up to its potential. Philippine
agriculture has weathered...
Type: ReportReport#: 161421Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Weiss,Eli ;
Kar,Anuja ;
Nash,John D. ;
Jaffee,Steven M. ;
Forno,Doug ;
Briones,Roehl ;
Quinones,Maria Theresa G. ;
Figueroa-Geron,Carolina V. ;
Macandog,Paula Beatrice Magcale
Brazil’s poor, northeastern state of
Ceara used to rank among the bottom half of states in the
national assessment of education quality. In an effort to
redress the...
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
Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao
PDR) is in the early stages of a transition to a greener,
more resilient economy. The country has embarked on an
ambitious reform...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 159709Date: May 31, 2021
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
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
This paper examines whether the economic
crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits a
Schumpeterian “cleansing” of less productive firms. Using
firm-level data...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9671Date: May 24, 2021Author:
Muzi,Silvia ;
Jolevski,Filip ;
Ueda,Kohei ;
Viganola,Domenico
While the Lao authorities made progress
in the area of corporate governance (CG), the overall CG
framework needed to be brought in line with international
standards...
The corporate governance guidelines for
listed companies are intended to raise the corporate
governance standards of listed companies in Lao People’s
Democratic Republic...
Type: ReportReport#: 159046Date: May 17, 2021Author:
Chanthachack,Saysamone
As with other countries, Sudan has been
hit hard by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The
Sudanese authorities attempted to act quickly in the face of
the spreading...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 158989Date: May 10, 2021Author:
World Bank
Given its size, public procurement
matters for economic development. Transparency, competition,
accountability, efficiency, and innovation are most commonly
noted as...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9651Date: May 6, 2021Author:
Nogues Comas,Antoni Albert ;
Mendes Dos Santos,Nuno Filipe
Established in 2016, the World Bank
living standards measurement study - plus (LSMS+) program
works to enhance the availability and quality of
intra-household, self-reported,...
Type: ReportReport#: 158814Date: May 5, 2021Author:
Hasanbasri,Ardina Roosiany ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Koolwal,Gayatri B. ;
Moylan,Heather G.
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