There are many reasons why so many mobile money launches have not met the high expectations set by senior management. Often, the main success metric is attaining a certain number of registered users within...
Type: BriefReport#: 193140Date: August 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper analyzes cycles in policy interest rates in 24 advanced economies over 1970–2024, combining a new application of business cycle methodology with rich time-series decompositions of the shocks...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10876Date: August 20, 2024Author:
Forbes, Kristin ;
Ha, Jongrim ;
Kose, Ayhan
Consumption data from household surveys continue to be the main source for poverty and inequality statistics in low- and middle-income countries. Although recent research has demonstrated that the choice...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10871Date: August 19, 2024Author:
Amankwah, Akuffo ;
Gul, Maryam ;
Johnson, Darcey Jeanne Genou ;
Ofori Adofo, Josephine ;
Palacios-Lopez, Amparo
This evaluation assesses how well the World Bank is supporting a blue economy approach to achieve sustainable and inclusive development of ocean and coastal states. A livable planet requires well-managed...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 192157Date: August 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
A number of factors affect the successful development and deployment of a mobile money business. The entire external environment affects the mobile financial service providers (MFSP) ability to build a...
Type: BriefReport#: 193125Date: August 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) is a global hub of knowledge and policy expertise on migration and development. KNOMAD is supported by a multi-donor trust fund established...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193134Date: August 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
Leveraging unconventional data, including website traffic data and Google Trends, this paper unveils the real-time usage patterns of generative artificial intelligence tools by individuals across countries....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10870Date: August 19, 2024Author:
Liu, Yan ;
Wang, He
This paper uses remotely sensed and farm-level data to assess the micro-level impacts of the war in Ukraine. Remotely sensed, high-resolution data on areas of war-induced agricultural field damage in different...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10869Date: August 19, 2024Author:
Ali, Daniel Ayalew ;
Deininger, Klaus W. ;
Kussul, Nataliia ;
Lemoine, Guido ;
Shelestov, Andrii
A new system of consumption taxes in Brazil was approved by constitutional
amendment in December 2023, with infra-constitutional legislation under
debate in Congress as of July 2024. This legislation will...
Type: ReportReport#: 193114Date: August 19, 2024Author:
Fleischhaker, Cornelius ;
Navia Simon, Daniel ;
Rios, Heron Marcos Teixeira
Microfinance is an important tool for improving livelihoods at the base of the pyramid by increasing access to finance to underserved households and microentrepreneurs, especially women. Yet the sector...
Type: BriefReport#: 193105Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Climate change mitigation remains as critical as ever, as global greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. Temperatures continue their relentless climb, and 2023 was the hottest year on record. While...
Type: PublicationReport#: 193115Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
The mobile money industry keeps asking, what is the value proposition for agents? One want to know what it is going to take to get the agents to put out significant amounts of effort for the MFSP, but...
Type: BriefReport#: 193080Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
IFC’s Infrastructure and Natural Resources Group provides equity and debt-financing solutions to commercially viable companies and projects in Asia and the Pacific. Our global network, local presence,...
Type: BriefReport#: 193118Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) is an innovative IFC-led, funded by EC program, that is expanding access to insurance for natural disasters and weather risks in developing countries.
Type: BriefReport#: 193119Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper proposes a new link relating export destinations and the organization of the firm: the production of higher-quality varieties exported to rich destinations induces firms to restructure their...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 201084Date: August 16, 2024Author:
Andres, Cesar ;
Falcone, Guillermo Enrique ;
Guido, Porto ;
Irene, Brambilla
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account forabout 90 percent of businesses and more than 50 percent of employment worldwide. They are key engines of job creation and economic growth in developing countries,...
Type: BriefReport#: 193116Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Market sizing is traditionally defined as estimating the number of buyers of a particular product, or users of a service. Because of the relative newness of mobile money, sizing the potential market is...
Type: BriefReport#: 193067Date: August 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
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