Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face a disproportionate burden from climate change, potentially threatening the operations and profitability of firms. Simultaneously, firms in LMICs may contribute...
This report summarizes the lessons and achievements from the implementation of ComPEL (The Competitiveness Policy Evaluation Lab) in FY17-22. ComPEL is an umbrella impact evaluation program set up in partnership...
In Peru, business safety inspections, related to the risk of fire and collapse, which affect all businesses in the country, are characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. This can...
In collaboration with the ministry of housing, construction, and sanitation and the municipality of Lima in Peru, the authors used a randomized experiment to test whether intensive monitoring of inspectors...
In Peru, the business safety inspection process, a requirement to obtain an operating license, is characterized by misaligned incentives and high transaction costs. These inefficiencies disproportionally...
Transitioning to a more knowledge- and technology-based economy will be critical if Bulgaria is to achieve convergence with its European peers in terms of economic productivity and living standards. The...
Transitioning to a more knowledge- and technology-based economy will be critical if Bulgaria is to achieve convergence with its European peers in terms of economic productivity and living standards. The...
This paper evaluates the short-term causal effects of a high-quality, intensive, part-time computer coding bootcamp for women on skill acquisition and employment outcomes. Spots were offered in an oversubscribed...
The increase in female labor force participation is among the most salient economic and social transformations in the world over the last fifty years, and Latin America is no exception. In this regard...
Business safety inspections are commonly cited as one of the most important bureaucratic barriers to doing business around the developing world (World Bank 2019, 2020). In Peru, the business safety inspection...
Slum upgrading projects are designed to provide a package of basic services aimed at improving the living conditions of residents in low-income communities. These typically involve a range of infrastructure...
This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the introduction of independent regulators in those sectors, have not always had the expected...
The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance by using cross-country panel data from 1990 to 2003. In general, they find that having...
The authors present an infrastructure database that was assembled from multiple sources. Its main purposes are: (1) to provide a snapshot of the sector as of the end of 2004; and (2) to facilitate quantitative...
This note provides a snapshot as of 2004 of the share of countries with an independent regulatory agency and with at least some private sector financing of its sectoral investment needs for electricity...