Business training in low-income countries have scarcely shown impacts on revenues and profits, especially for female entrepreneurs. In this study, we test two kinds of trainings, one basic in-class training...
Type: BriefReport#: 128037Date: July 1, 2018Author:
Bardasi,Elena ;
Gassier,Marine ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Holla,Alaka
This issue of Indonesia MTI Economic Note contains economic highlights, including: Indonesia’s economy expanded 5.3 percent yoy in Q2, higher than the 5.1 percent growth posted in Q1, the highest growth...
Environmental and social aspects of doing business have traditionally been considered from the risk management perspective - cost control, business continuity, safeguarding property value, and so on. International...
Private businesses and investors can create markets and accelerate growth for low-incomecommunities in emerging markets. In doing so, they benefit from estimates of poverty in thetargeted market segments...
Identifying use cases for emerging technologies to reach financially excluded smallholders means looking beyond the hype to develop a clear understanding of these technologies’ unique features, costs,...
Type: BriefReport#: 129153Date: July 1, 2018Author:
Mattern,Max William
As microfinance institutions have grown and professionalized over recent decades, their need for improved governance practices has increased. IFC works with microfinance institutions (MFIs) in countries...
Type: BriefReport#: 178249Date: July 1, 2018Author:
World Bank
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) account for twenty percent of investment, five percent of employment, and up to forty percent of domestic output in countries around the world. SOEs deliver critical services...
Type: BriefReport#: 178294Date: July 1, 2018Author:
World Bank
Female labor force participation (FLFP) in Indonesia lags behind other countries in the region. Building on previous work that shows that unmet childcare needs are associated with low FLFP in Indonesia,...
Type: BriefReport#: 129308Date: July 1, 2018Author:
Halim,Daniel Zefanya ;
Johnson,Hillary C. ;
Perova,Elizaveta
The Arab Uprisings demonstrated a need for a new social contract in Maghreb countries as well as likely other regions, built on greater citizen trust, and inclusive and accountable service delivery. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 129431Date: July 1, 2018Author:
Gold,Jenny R. ;
Harati,Elissar Tatum
Global trade tensions have worsened and developing countries stand to see depressing investments as global uncertainty grows. On July 6, the United States implemented a first round of tariffs on 34 billion...
Type: BriefReport#: 128644Date: July 1, 2018Author:
Freund,Caroline ;
Ferrantino,Michael Joseph ;
Maliszewska,Maryla ;
Ruta,Michele
Recognizing the capacity constraints faced by governments in countries emerging from conflict and violence, and that international support is typically fragmented and uncoordinated, an recovery and peacebuilding...
Type: BriefReport#: 194914Date: June 30, 2018Author:
Wee, Asbjorn Haland
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for June 29, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Bank of Indonesia (BI) Board of Governors has decided to raise its 7-Day Reverse Repo Rate by 50...
In 2005, BOTAS designed a project to build an underground storage facility near a salt lake in central Turkey with a capacity of 1bcm of storage capacity. The project was the first of its kind supported...
Type: BriefReport#: 180927Date: June 28, 2018Author:
World Bank
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for June 28, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the government established a private investment firm to help state-owned enterprises (SOEs) fund...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for June 26, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The Ministry of Finance has announced that through May 2018, the government had reaped IDR 685.1...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for June 25, 2018 contains economic highlights, including Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded a trade deficit of USD 1.5 billion in May 2018. Exports...
The Jakarta Composite Index declined by 0.4 percent over the week, in line with major markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar, Euro and Japanese Yen by 2.1 percent, 1.8 percent,...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for June 22, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Bank Indonesia (BI) reported that the external debt at the end of April 2018 amounted to USD 356.9...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for June 21, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The Ministry of Finance's Taxation Directorate General has signed the Bilateral Competent Authority...
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