One of the earliest loans to Kenya was the African Agriculture and Roads Project, approved on May 27, 1960. The first component of the project included completion of land consolidation and registration...
Cameroon’s high employment levels mask widespread precariousness and rural-urban inequality. Labor market vulnerability-either detachment or weak attachment-is particularly acute among youth (ages 15 to...
Digital financial services have progressed rapidly since the first mobile-money services in East Africa a decade ago. Their early success in Kenya and Tanzania sent telecom firms, banks, technology firms...
The collection of survey data from war zones or other unstable security situations is vulnerable to error because conflict often limits the implementation options. Although there are elevated risks throughout...
This brief summarizes the main findings from a new regional World Bank report, which outlines the current jobs challenge in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) and discusses policies that can help countries...
Even though Sri Lanka is a fore-runner in many human development dimensions and aspects of gender equality amongst the South Asian countries, it is similar to other South Asian countries when it comes...
While many governments in the Arab world have undertaken some privatizations since the early 1990s, many retain surprisingly large portfolios of fully, majority, or minority state-owned enterprises (SOEs)...
New private activity in infrastructure in developing countries declined in the first semester of 2011, but remained strong and continued to be highly selective, according to data from the private participation...
The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political cycles in major countries, there is not much hope for a rapid conclusion. The topics...
This focus note posits that banking agents are an increasingly vital player in the push to offer financial services to the global poor. Agents, seen as extensions of the banking system, accomplish this...
本期Focusnote认为银行业务代理商在推动金融服务覆盖全球穷人方面正愈发重要。被视为银行系统延伸的代理商通过抵消穷人客户建立低价值账户时产生的费用、扩大银行服务的流动、加快借款人的借贷流程来实现上述目标。使用银行代理能让银行在无网点的情况下扩大服务的灵活性,常见的情形是代理人将银行服务纳入到他们小规模、独立的业务中。这样一来,银行代理人可以帮助银行免除用于维持运营成熟实体网点的花费。基于移动手机客户端的银行是另一种流行的做法。由于这样的业务模式具有多样性的特点,不同地缘政治区域的业务之间的关系的细微差别有待进一步探索,其中银行代理人的地理位置选择将是主要的问题。在不同国家使得代理人合法化的决定取决于各自监管机构的信仰与价值观。作者在本期试图回答四个核心讨论的问题:1.谁可以成为代理商?2.代理商在提供金融服务方面可以发挥哪些作用?3.银行使用代理商都有哪些商业条件?4.银行为代理商承担多大程度的责任?本文将围绕代理人角色的几个关键问题给出一些推荐性意见,这也是金融行动专责委员会(FATF)正在解决的问题。
This focus note posits that banking agents are an increasingly vital player in the push to offer financial services to the global poor. Agents, seen as extensions of the banking system, accomplish this...
This focus note posits that banking agents are an increasingly vital player in the push to offer financial services to the global poor. Agents, seen as extensions of the banking system, accomplish this...
Effectively educating all citizens is difficult in a geographically disperse and culturally heterogeneous country such as Mexico. How should Mexico educate the type of students who speak no Spanish, live...
Effectively educating all citizens is difficult in a geographically disperse and culturally heterogeneous country such as Mexico. How should Mexico educate the type of students who speak no Spanish, live...
In recent years, Europe and Central Asia (ECA) has seen the world's fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Balkans countries and territories under study - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia...
Realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for achieving universal primary education by 2015 in the world as a whole, and for Africa, in particular, requires concentrated attention on the Democratic...
On August 18, 2004, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number sixty-eight. It was resolved that: (i) the 2004 regular election of Directors should take...
This paper provides a historical overview of the role and framework of governance assessment in World Bank operations, as well as an informative, process oriented and technical description of the design...
During the workshop organized by traditional healers at the XIIIth International HIV/AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa in July 2000, the issue of the legal recognition and the legal status of this...