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Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries (英语)
Global poverty monitored by the World Bank for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is reported only at the national level, lacking a breakdown between urban and rural areas. A key challenge to producing...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 173894 文件日期: 2022年7月12日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Combes,Pierre Philippe,Nakamura,Shohei,Roberts,Mark,Stewart,Benjamin P.
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Does Elderly Employment Reduce Job Opportunities for Youth? (英语)
The aging of populations around the world and the associated fall in the working age population are expected to adversely affect countries’ GDP growth in coming decades. These demographic shifts will also...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 162696 文件日期: 2021年8月9日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Binti Jasmin,Alyssa Farha,Abdur Rahman,Amanina Binti
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Nepal : A Review of Jobs Portfolio (英语)
The report presents an analysis of the jobs portfolio for Nepal covering WB operations as well as Development Partners' (DP) activities, with the objective of understanding the approach towards jobs specific...
文件类型: 工作文件（编号系列） 报告号: 149885 文件日期: 2020年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Parikh,Vismay Bharat,Shakya,Anupama
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The pros and cons of agent banking : evidence from Senegal (英语)
This study seeks to estimate the effects of access to agent banking on opening and usage of a savings account in urban and peri-urban areas in Senegal. A randomly selected group of individuals were given...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 126040 文件日期: 2018年5月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Buri,Sinja,Cull,Robert J.,Giné, Xavier,Harten,Sven,Heitmann,Soren
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Increased regulation and de-risking are impeding cross-border financing in emerging markets (英语)
Correspondent banking relationships connect banks and people across borders and are critical to finance and trade. They are a vital link between emerging markets and the broader global economy. Yet efforts...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 123079 文件日期: 2018年1月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Volk,Ariane Tamara,Starnes,Susan K.
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Start of the Young Professionals Program (英语)
Richard Van Wagenen, Dean of the Graduate School of American University, was invited by the Bank to assist in the creation of the program. He joined the staff of the Bank in November 1962, and immediately...
文件类型: 工作文件 报告号: 104681 文件日期: 2016年1月1日 披露方式: Disclosed
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From demographic dividend to demographic burden? : regional trends of population aging in Russia (英语)
Do regions with higher working age populations grow faster? This paper examines this question using data from Russian regions and finds evidence that demographic trends influence regional growth convergence...
文件类型: 工作文件（编号系列） 报告号: 125430 文件日期: 2015年11月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Matytsin,Mikhail,Moorty,Lalita M.,Richter,Kaspar
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Output-Based Aid (OBA) in the Philippines : Public Health Project (英语)
In 2010 the Government of the Philippines launched a Universal Health Care initiative, which mandated the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to provide health insurance coverage to all...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 99689 文件日期: 2015年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed
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Social safety nets in Europe and Central Asia : preparing for crisis, adapting to demographic change, and promoting employability (英语)
Social safety nets in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region responded to protect people's incomes during the global recession, especially in countries where systems were developed before the crisis...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 69096 文件日期: 2012年4月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Larrison,Jennica,Lindert,Kathy A.,Strokova,Victoria,Williams,Penelope Jane Aske
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Conference proceedings : higher education in Madhya Pradesh - the way forward Bhopal, India (英语)
Madhya Pradesh is fast emerging as a repository of skilled human resource. Investment on building up of human capital is showing upward trend. The State Government has focused attention on improving the...
文件类型: 工作文件（编号系列） 报告号: 67450 文件日期: 2012年1月1日 披露方式: Disclosed
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Supporting private sector development in Iraq (英语)
While Iraq is a middle-income country it faces challenges which are more commonly found in low income countries. These include dependence on one primary commodity (crude oil); significant infrastructure...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 66109 文件日期: 2011年11月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Rimmer,Stephen,Al-Ani,Mohammed Wafaa
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How public spending can help you grow : an empirical analysis for developing countries (英语)
Although many studies indicate that both the level and composition of public spending are significant for economic growth, the results in the empirical literature are still mixed. This note is based on...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 59381 文件日期: 2011年2月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Bayraktar,Nihal,Moreno-Dodson,Blanca
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Strategic environmental assessment : improving water resources governance and decision making (英语)
The Sustainable Development Network (SDN) calls for elevating the environment into upstream processes such as policy, programmatic, and investment dialogue. In its 2002 environment strategy, the Bank committed...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 55280 文件日期: 2010年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed
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Rural banking : the case of rural and community banks in Ghana (英语)
This case study describes the history and business model of the Rural and Community Bank (RCB) network in Ghana, analyzes its performance, identifies key issues, and makes recommendations on the way forward...
文件类型: 工作文件（编号系列） 报告号: 56591 文件日期: 2010年5月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Nair,Ajai,Mekonnen,Azeb Fissha
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GEF annual impact report 2008 (英语)
The annual impact report 2008 brings together the results of two interrelated approaches that explore the value of using quasi-experimental methods to construct accurate counterfactuals for project intervention...
文件类型: 年度报告 报告号: 57544 文件日期: 2009年10月1日 披露方式: Disclosed
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Another lost decade? Effects of the financial crisis on project finance for infrastructure (英语)
Rapid growth in project finance, driven by huge increases in liquidity, helped fuel the gains in private participation in infrastructure (PPI) in developing countries in the past decade. But when the financial...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 51768 文件日期: 2009年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Leigland,James,Russell, Henry
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Awakening Africa's sleeping giant : prospects for commercial agriculture in the Guinea Savannah zone and beyond (英语)
Stimulating agricultural growth is critical to reducing poverty in Africa. Commercial agriculture, potentially a powerful driver of agricultural growth, can develop along a number of pathways. Yet many...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 48923 文件日期: 2009年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Morris,Michael,Larson,Gunnar
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Macroeconomic policy : does it matter for growth? The role of volatility (英语)
Recent academic research has questioned the role of economic policy as a determinant of long term growth rates. While there seems to be a correlation between several policy variables and growth rates...
文件类型: 工作文件（编号系列） 报告号: 57747 文件日期: 2009年1月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Fatas,Antonio,Mihov, Ilian
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Banking on mobiles : why, how, for whom? (阿拉伯语)
This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 45101 文件日期: 2008年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mas Ribo,Ignacio,Kumar,Kabir Chandra
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Banking on mobiles : why, how, for whom? : Servicios bancarios en telefonos moviles : por que, como, para quien? (西班牙语)
This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 45101 文件日期: 2008年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mas Ribo,Ignacio,Kumar,Kabir Chandra