This technical background paper provides an overview of data governance frameworks in Africa and explores links with public trust and an enabling environment for greater participation in the digital economy....
Type: ReportReport#: 190414Date: May 19, 2024Author:
Rong Chen ;
Lillyana Daza Jaller ;
Tania Priscilla Begazo Gomez
While digital technologies offer enormous benefits to the economy and society, they also expose citizens, firms, and markets to risks. This report focuses on understanding these risks to economic governance...
Type: ReportReport#: 190415Date: May 19, 2024Author:
Tania Priscilla Begazo Gomez ;
Clara Stinshoff ;
Hannelore Maria L. Niesten ;
Georgiana Pop ;
Rong Chen ;
Gonçalo Coelho
This technical background paper delves into the role and importance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) within Africa's digital economy, along with the potential risks they pose to competition and market...
Type: ReportReport#: 190411Date: May 19, 2024Author:
Georgiana Pop ;
Davida Connon
This technical background paper provides insights on entry points for competition authorities in Africa to increase competition advocacy activities to improve the conditions of competition in digital markets...
Type: ReportReport#: 190410Date: May 19, 2024Author:
Georgiana Pop ;
Davida Connon
This technical background paper sheds light on the corporate governance challenges faced by enterprises with national state shareholdings, specifically State-owned and State-linked Enterprises (SOE-SLEs),...
The Country Opinion Survey in Somalia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Somalia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 190371Date: May 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
The past decade has witnessed a rapid increase in data leaks from tax havens, spanning from the Luxembourg Leaks to revelations in the Panama and Pandora Papers. While these leaks often prompt political...
Type: ReportReport#: 190403Date: May 18, 2024Author:
Pierre Bachas ;
Collin,Matthew ;
Tatiana Flores ;
Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda ;
Lyu,Hao
This report provides an assessment of Equatorial Guinea’s digital economy, as part of
the World Bank’s Digital Economy for Africa (DE4A) initiative. Prepared to support the
implementation of the Digital...
Type: ReportReport#: 190405Date: May 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report uses administrative tax data on firm-to-firm trade in Honduras to evaluate the degree of integration between firms receiving export-oriented tax exemptions and the local economy. We present...
Type: ReportReport#: 190404Date: May 18, 2024Author:
Jose Carlo Bermudez Sanchez ;
Tatiana Flores ;
Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda
The Country Opinion Survey in Somalia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Somalia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 190371Date: May 17, 2024Author:
World Bank
In 1997, thousands of people gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, for the first World Water Forum to address an urgent problem: the global water crisis. The meeting resulted in the Marrakech Declaration, a...
Type: ReportReport#: 190289Date: May 17, 2024Author:
Fan Zhang ;
Christian Borja-Vega
This note proposes strategic directions for IDA21, aiming to seek agreement on the proposed overarching theme and focus areas for IDA21. The following sections highlight the context, the new institutional...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 190407Date: May 17, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper explores the effect of road rehabilitation projects on the incidence of violent events using a novel, rich dataset of road rehabilitation projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Violence...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 190797Date: May 17, 2024Author:
Lebrand,Mathilde Sylvie Maria ;
Mueller,Hannes Felix ;
Schouten,Peerke ;
Steinbuks,Jevgenijs
In 1997, thousands of people gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, for the first World Water Forum to address an urgent problem: the global water crisis. The meeting resulted in the Marrakech Declaration, a...
Type: ReportReport#: 190289Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Zhang,Fan ;
Borja-Vega,Christian
Can alternative survey methods address the underreporting of women’s and youths’ labor market outcomes, and thus improve the measurement of the underlying gender- and age-based gaps? This paper addresses...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10773Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Contreras Gonzalez,Ivette Maria ;
Dinarte Diaz,Lelys Ileana ;
Palacios-Lopez,Amparo ;
Costa,Valentina ;
Romero Esteban,Steffanny
Adoption of digital technologies is widely acknowledged to boost productivity and employment, stimulate investment, and promote growth and development. Africa has already benefited from a rapid diffusion...
Type: ReportReport#: 190277Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Marcio Cruz
The Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan Survey (L2CU) has been conducted for 6 yearssince 2018 on a monthly basis, with the support of the UK Government The L2CU monitored socio-economic indicators...
Type: ReportReport#: 190319Date: May 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
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