Development interventions like projects supported by the World Bank all intend to have impacts that outlast the life of the projects themselves. Establishing a useful source of information that project...
This brief examines whether labor market imperfections stop microenterprises from growing, using an experiment in Sri Lanka that provided wage subsidies to small firms to help them hire workers.
Type: BriefReport#: 111734Date: January 1, 2017Author:
De Mel, Suresh ;
McKenzie, David J. ;
Woodruff, Christoper
Over the past decade, the debate on access toenergy has tended to lean mostly on technology,finance, and policy as key drivers. Thanks to this approach, there has been some progress in expanding global...
Type: BriefReport#: 115075Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Bologna, Stefano ;
Colombo, Emanuela ;
Masera, Diego ;
Mattarolo, Lorenzo ;
Politecnico di Milano
The record of concession arrangements in stimulating faster and more effective rural electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa is mixed at best: More concessions have failed than have been implemented—and...
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in the heart of West Africa. Covering an area of 264,000 square kilometers, agriculture comprises the single largest economic sector, employing over 80 percent of the...
International Finance Corporation (IFC) partners with local financial institutions to increase access to finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and to expand the breadth and depth of services...
Type: BriefReport#: 119856Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Domenech Porcar, Luis ;
Kopyta, Maria
The West African coastal zone is home to a bounty of natural resources, or “coastal naturalcapital” that is essential to ecosystem services that support coastal community and marine,life and national economies.
This brief is to support drought risk reduction and decision-making to build resilience, an open access and open source crop risk monitoring system, 4Crop, has been developed to predict crop failure and...
Pakistan's natural catastrophes raise a major financing challenge: the losses from flooding alone cost 3–4 percent of the federal budget, with losses from natural disasters exceeding $18 billion over the...
Geothermal heat is increasingly being used around the world to produce electricity in an environmentally friendly way. Current technology could potentially produce more than 70 GW of power, but only about...
Type: BriefReport#: 113111Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Berman, Laura Wendell ;
Jayawardena, Migara ;
Johansen, Peter ;
La Rocca, Roberto
As activity ramps up in climate innovation for developing countries, organizations are finding that attracting quality talent and companies to such efforts is both a key success factor and one of the most...
Type: BriefReport#: 115293Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Coony, Jonathan d'Entremont ;
Doretti, Diletta ;
Ehst, Mike ;
Lin, Rosa
Women receiving unconditional cash transfers in northern Nigeria worked more, particularly, in their own businesses, spent more on consumption, were more food secure, saved more, bought more animals and...
Type: BriefReport#: 119101Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Bastian, Gautam Gustav ;
Goldstein, Markus P. ;
Papineni, Sreelakshmi
As Tunisia emerges from the Arab Spring, its new constitution explicitly recognizes the rights of the child and the responsibility of both the State and parents to act in the child’s best interest to guarantee...
Thousands of messages per hour are shared on Twitter during flood events. These include early, on-the-ground observations accessible in real-time. The arguably lifesaving nature of this information has...
A report on food safety was produced by the World Bank and partners at the request of the Government of Vietnam. This policy brief summarises the key findings and recommendations.
In India’s coastal regions of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, over 200,000 families depend on fishing and related activities for their livelihoods. The coastal regions are also known to be vulnerable to numerous...
Type: BriefReport#: 114476Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Urrutia Duarte, Ignacio M.
Easy Paisa of Pakistan uses 75,000 agents and 6,000 plus 1-link enabled automated teller machines (ATMs) to facilitate 1.2 million Benazir income support payments (BISP) to poor women every quarter. Utilizing...
Type: BriefReport#: 117397Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Biallas, Margarete O.
In the early 1950s, representatives of Toyota Company visited the plants of their rival Ford and were surprised to find that staff there worked significantly faster than their Toyota peers. The visit inspired...
Type: BriefReport#: 192921Date: December 31, 2016Author:
World Bank
During calendar year 2016 IFC’s corporate governance program has continued to deliver on its mandate to improve the governance practices of firms in key emerging markets. In addition to direct engagement...
Type: BriefReport#: 178248Date: December 31, 2016Author:
World Bank
The report presents training title; type; and objectives for general corporate governance; board and related-functions; control environment; family business governance; and specialized corporate governance...
Type: BriefReport#: 179477Date: December 31, 2016Author:
Nejkov, Kiril ;
Tryputen, Sergii P. ;
Zupcevic Buzadzic, Merima
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