The number of forcibly displaced persons has been rising in recent years, and many displacements have become protracted. However, public resources available to assist individuals and families have dwindled...
On October 13, 2017, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and three. It was resolved that the Council of Governors of the Agency considers...
The 2015 United Nations resolution on financing for development stresses the importance of effective resource mobilization and use of domestic resources to pursue sustainable development. The first sustainable...
Low-income consumers stand to benefit greatly from more accessible and affordable digital financial services (DFS) offerings. Indeed, evidence from consumer research in 16 markets analyzed for this paper...
This working paper summarizes the key findings of the African Transport Policy Performance Review, carried out by SSATP in selected Anglophone and Francophone countries in 2013. It highlights the performance...
Well-functioning institutions are critical to reducing poverty and boosting growth. However, fragile and conflict-affected states generally lack the political and institutional structures needed to address...
This note discusses the external environment, economic outlook, and key policy challenges for the six South East European Countries (SEE6)-Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), Kosovo, the former Yugoslav...
Although Mozambique has considerable agricultural potential, rural poverty remains extremely high. This paper examines the extent to which global and domestic price distortions affect agricultural production...
The paper on fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement with the EU is organized as follows. Following a brief discussion of ECOWAS' achievements so far in regional economic...
Development practitioners are increasingly implementing projects that treat communities as development partners rather than as aid recipients. For example, in a typical Community-Driven Development (CDD)...
This note points out that the World Bank, jointly with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) developed the Program...
Since more than a decade, the sector of higher education and research (ESR) in the French-speaking countries of Africa have been confronted with a major crisis whose origin is mainly in the imbalance between...
The project's goal is to configure realistically the potential business units that are likely to be awarded in concessions to private operators. These conditions are comprised of: (i) the socioeconomic...
The project's goal is to configure realistically the potential business units that are likely to be awarded in concessions to private operators. These conditions are comprised of: (i) the socioeconomic...
This Note is a part of a larger study of technological adaptation and catch-up in high-growth, nontraditional export sectors. Such study examined ten sectors in economies with a reasonably stable macro...
Biomass resources account for about 11percent of the global primary energy supply-heir contribution is even greater, and hence particularly important, in developing countries. But biomass utilization in...
The overall objective of this Learning and Innovation Credit (2000-2003: US$3.8 million) was to further develop and assess the merits of bilingual education in Mali, in terms of financial and educational...
The overall objective of this Learning and Innovation Credit (2000-2003: US$3.8 million) was to further develop and assess the merits of bilingual education in Mali, in terms of financial and educational...
Lesotho has built a small but significant manufacturing sector, representing about 18 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). During the past decade, the sector has increased 14-fold, an exceptional achievement...
Lesotho has built a small but significant manufacturing sector, representing about 18 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). During the past decade, the sector has increased 14-fold, an exceptional achievement...