Electricity is the largest component of household energy expenditures in Serbia. The power sector in Serbia faced increasing financial difficulty in 2014. High technical and commercial losses along with...
Type: BriefReport#: 123444Date: February 1, 2018Author:
ESMAP
The size of government defined as the share of the public expenditure in GDP measures the magnitude of resources that are under the control of the public sector and available for reallocation across sectors,...
Type: BriefReport#: 151985Date: February 1, 2018Author:
Dessus,Sebastien C. ;
Herderschee,Johannes ;
Kwaramba,Marko ;
Munditi,Nyasha Perseverance
This brief draws from the Tanzania WASH Poverty Diagnostic (TWPD) report (World Bank, forthcoming), an initiative of the World Bank Water Global Practice (GP), which brings together analytics from across...
Type: BriefReport#: 123627Date: February 1, 2018Author:
Joseph,George ;
Haque,Sabrina Sharmin ;
Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi
Between 2008 and 2010, the authors worked with a leading global consulting company to attempt to improve management in Indian textile firms. They conducted a randomized experiment involving 28 plants in...
Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) are the highest national authorities responsible for overseeing and holding governments to account for their use of public resources. A broad-based consensus underscores...
Type: BriefReport#: 123744Date: February 1, 2018Author:
Pruefer,Marc-Anton Wilhelm ;
Boyce,Daniel J.
The results in education for all children (REACH) trust fund at the World Bank has funded a pilot of the classroom assessment scoring system (CLASS) in Guangdong, China to test its usefulness as a tool...
Type: BriefReport#: 124435Date: February 1, 2018Author:
Lehe,Jonathan David ;
Al-Samarrai,Samer ;
Lee,Jessica Veronique ;
Mackintosh,Fiona J. ;
Andrew,Coflan ;
Ragatz,Andrew B. ;
Hasan,Amer ;
Pan,Yilin
Improving government productivity is one of themain challenges of economic development. Althoughconsensus exists around the core policies needed fordeveloping countries to achieve equitable growth andreduce...
Type: BriefReport#: 123691Date: February 1, 2018Author:
Hasnain,Zahid ;
Rogger,Daniel Oliver
As emphasized in Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific: A Companion Report to the World Development Report (World Bank 2012), gender inequality in access to economic opportunities, earnings,...
Growth in global trade has been slow since 2012. While global trade downturns are not unprecedented, the observed change in the relationship of trade to GDP poses the question whether the trade slowdown...
Type: BriefReport#: 123899Date: February 1, 2018Author:
Georgieva,Dorina Peteva ;
Loayza,Norman V. ;
Mendez Ramos,Fabian
The Financial Services Authority (OJK) of Indonesia has introduced regulation number concerning the Implementation of the corporate governance guideline for public companies. Public companies should disclose...
Type: BriefReport#: 192088Date: January 31, 2018Author:
World Bank
This story highlights financial inclusion and financial consumer protection are complementary: a strong consumer protection regime is key to achieving financial inclusion in a responsible and sustainable...
Despite Bangladesh’s success in reducing poverty, still many people live below and around the poverty line. The Government of Bangladesh currently implements several cash transfer programs to benefit the...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 30, 2018 contains economic highlights including: (i) the government plans to introduce a new electricity price formula, which will take into account...
A new study in Nigeria shows that chronic depression is associated with a lower labor force participation and reduced investments in children’s schooling.A new study by the World Bank looks at the first...
An experiment study in Nigeria showed that psychological tools, like priming, can have powerful impacts on survey respondents. In this context, the author decided to test how priming, a tool in the field...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 16, 2018 contains economic highlights, including that Indonesia’s motorbike sales in December fell by 5 percent yoy (November: minus 3.6 percent)...
The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts impact evaluations of development interventions and leads policy research to generate evidence on how to close gender gaps in earnings, productivity,...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for January 12, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita has said the Government will import 500,000 tons of medium-grade...
Accreditation and re-accreditation requirements differ in existence, scope, and use across and within countries. These differences affect facilities and cadres of workers at all levels. Estimates approximate...
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