The Country Opinion Survey in Maldives
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Maldives perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168452Date: May 1, 2021Author:
Felzer,Sharon
The number of forcibly displaced persons
has been rising in recent years, and many displacements have
become protracted. However, public resources available to
assist...
The paper curate’s knowledge residing in
public documents and aims to distill lessons learned on how
to adopt and use AI as part of a public sector modernization
strategy....
Type: ReportReport#: 157501Date: May 1, 2021Author:
Farooq,Khuram ;
Solowiej,Bartosz Jakub
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic,
which started in 2020, and the accompanying lockdowns have
severe impacted the economic development of sovereigns
across the globe....
The report provides one of the first
comprehensive applications of the World Bank’s new
integrated SOE framework (iSOEF) in Europe. Based on
firm-level data, it provides...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly
emerged as an important topic for the global development
agenda, and the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is also
yielding new...
The Country Opinion Survey in Serbia
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Serbia perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168400Date: May 1, 2021Author:
Felzer,Sharon
The Country Opinion Survey in Equatorial
Guinea assists the World Bank Group (WBG)in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Equatorial Guinea
perceive...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168389Date: May 1, 2021Author:
Felzer,Sharon
The quality of school management can
have a large impact on student learning. Evidence from a
wide range of countries demonstrates that improving the
management practices...
Firms in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP)
region have been hit hard by the COVID-19 (coronavirus)
pandemic, with dramatic and widespread falls in sales and
employment....
Type: BriefReport#: 158503Date: April 26, 2021Author:
De Nicola,Francesca ;
Mattoo,Aaditya ;
Timmis,Jonathan David ;
Tran,Trang Thu
Regional trade agreements increasingly
include provisions that regulate state-owned enterprises.
This paper combines new information on the content of “deep”
regional...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9637Date: April 22, 2021Author:
Lefebvre,Kevin Jean-Rene ;
Rocha,Nadia ;
Ruta,Michele
Effective creditor and debtor rights and
insolvency systems are an important element of financial
system stability. The World Bank Group accordingly has been
working...
This paper explores the economic impacts
of preferential trade agreements, focusing on the provisions
they contain, beyond phasing out tariffs. Clustering 278
preferential...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9630Date: April 14, 2021Author:
Fontagne,Lionel ;
Rocha,Nadia ;
Ruta,Michele ;
Santoni,Gianluca
Modern trade agreements contain a large
number of provisions besides tariff reductions, in areas as
diverse as services trade, competition policy, trade-related
investment...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9629Date: April 13, 2021Author:
Breinlich,Holger ;
Corradi,Valentina ;
Rocha,Nadia ;
Ruta,Michele ;
Santos Silva,J.M.C. ;
Zylkin,Tom
The circular economy is now at the
forefront of the competitiveness agenda for various
industrial sectors, industrial parks, and firms. This report
intends to provide...
Type: ReportReport#: 158011Date: April 9, 2021Author:
Kechichian,Etienne Raffi ;
Demir Duru,Sinem ;
Quaranta,Dario ;
Shin,Nah Yoon
Several studies in the literature have
adopted attitude or perception-based survey questions to
evaluate the business environment and its effect on firms.
The Enterprise...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9610Date: April 5, 2021Author:
Islam,Asif Mohammed ;
Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis
The Country Opinion Survey in Indonesia
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Indonesia perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168443Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Felzer,Sharon
Jobs in exporting industries tend to pay
higher wages than comparable jobs in firms focused on the
domestic market. In Ethiopia, where the government has
pursued an...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157943Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Meyer,Christian Johannes ;
Krkoska,Eduard ;
Maaskant,Cornelis Lodewijk
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