文件与报告库
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Global Financial Market Turmoil : Why is South East Asia Exposed but Resilient? (英语)
South East Asia’s largest middle-income economies are highly integrated into global financial markets. While this provides considerable benefits, it also exposes them to sudden retrenchments of portfolio...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 133629 文件日期: 2018年12月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Diop,Ndiame
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Trade Facilitation Reform - The Impact of Targeted Sampling on Import Compliance (英语)
The results of an impact evaluation of the introduction of a risk-based approach to sampling import shipments by the Macedonian Food and Veterinary Agency indicate that the sampling plan was not effectively...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 125873 文件日期: 2018年3月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Hillberry,Russell Henry,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Alcántara,Alejandra Mendoza
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Expediting trade : Impact evaluation of Serbia’s in-house clearance program (英语)
Reforms of national customs agencies are supported by increasingamounts of development aid. However, there have been very fewformal evaluations of their effectiveness. This note summarizesresearch about...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 116522 文件日期: 2017年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Hillberry,Russell Henry,Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Berg,Claudia N.,Mendoza Alcantara,Alejandra
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Small business tax regimes (英语)
Simplified tax regimes for micro and small enterprises in developing countries are intended to facilitate voluntary tax compliance. However, survey evidence suggests that small business taxation based...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 104359 文件日期: 2016年2月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Coolidge,Jacqueline,Yilmaz,Fatih
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Investment climate in Africa (英语)
The World Bank Group has been working on investment climate reform in Sub-Saharan Africa for nearly a decade, a period characterized by dramatic economic growth on the continent. Establishing links between...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 98923 文件日期: 2015年7月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Bridgman,David Henry Martyn,Adamali,Aref
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Risk management in customs : benefits of customs reform - the evidence from Albania (英语)
Research into the economic impact of a customs reform in Albania shows the promise of the broader trade facilitation reform efforts that are gaining momentum in developing countries worldwide. The research...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 97220 文件日期: 2015年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Hillberry,Russell Henry,Alcántara, Alejandra Mendoza
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Primary care for the poor : the potential of micro-health markets to improve care (英语)
Much of the primary curative care provided to the poor by the private sector occurs not at large hospitals but at small, single-person clinics. While such micro-health providers increase access, questions...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 94424 文件日期: 2015年1月1日 披露方式: Disclosed
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Contract farming (英语)
Contract farming involves production by farmers under agreement with buyers for their outputs. This arrangement can help integrate small-scale farmers into modern agricultural value chains, providing them...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 102736 文件日期: 2014年10月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Minot, Nicholas,Ronchi,Loraine
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Food safety standards : economic and market impacts in developing countries (英语)
Compliance with public and private food safety standards has been the subject of increasing attention. Much of the literature on impacts of food safety regulation in developed countries focuses on public...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 107910 文件日期: 2014年7月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Unnevehr,Laurian J.,Ronchi,Loraine
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Distributed private energy projects : supporting electrification goals in low-income countries (英语)
Unreliable electricity supply hinders economic growth in low-income countries. The private sector can play a significant role in supporting national power goals through small-scale ‘alternative private...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 90760 文件日期: 2014年7月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Desai,Vyjayanti Tharmaratnam,Moreno,Francisco Alejandro
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Deposit insurance systems : what do initial assessments show? (英语)
Deposit insurance is increasingly being recognized as an important part of a country's financial sector safety net. Deposit insurers are using the core principles for effective deposit insurance systems...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 84380 文件日期: 2013年10月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Lee,Yejin Carol,Mcguire,Claire Louise
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Ownership anonymity (英语)
Is it possible to register a limited liability company anonymously? According to data from the 2012 World Bank entrepreneurship database, a majority of the economies surveyed require the name of the principal...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 80611 文件日期: 2013年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Belayachi, Karim O.,Klapper,Leora,Ortiz Saborío,Ana Priscilla,Siegel,Carol
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Feed-in tariffs or auctions? : Procuring renewable energy supply in South Africa (英语)
Feed in tariffs have been the most widely used support mechanism to encourage the growth of grid-connected renewable energy. But could competitive tenders or auctions offer lower prices while still providing...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 77971 文件日期: 2013年4月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Gassner,Katharina B.,Maurer,Luiz T. A.,Pickering, Mark,Whittaker,Sean
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Small scale generation : issues in standardizing power purchase agreements (英语)
This note provides an introduction to the issues surrounding the design of Power Purchase Agreement's (PPAs). Programs to attract investment in small-scale electricity generation, often powered by renewable...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 77970 文件日期: 2013年3月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Ferrey,Steven,Moreno,Francisco Alejandro
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Resolution regimes (英语)
In response to the financial crisis in developed countries, the G-20, the financial stability board, the Basel committee on banking supervision, and other standard setters are pursuing an agenda of reforms...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 75209 文件日期: 2013年1月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Scott, David
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Trade logistics reforms (英语)
This note reviews the literature on the effects of reforms improving trade logistics systems and services. Three key insights emerge. First, trade logistics reforms have a notable effect on the ability...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 75208 文件日期: 2012年12月12日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Subramanian,Uma
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Electricity reforms : what some countries did right and others can do better (英语)
Since 1982 more than half the world's countries have reformed their electricity sectors. Implemented correctly, the standard reform model, with competition, unbundling, and effective regulation, can lead...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 73638 文件日期: 2012年10月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Kessides,Ioannis N.
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Competition policy : encouraging thriving markets for development (英语)
A literature review shows that competition policy reforms allow markets to work more efficiently for the benefit of consumers and drive sustainable economic growth. Three main insights emerge: greater...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 73637 文件日期: 2012年9月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Kitzmuller,Markus,Martinez Licetti,Martha
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Privatization trends (英语)
An update of the World Bank Group's privatization database shows that in 2007 privatizations in developing countries amounted to US$133 billion a record in nominal terms. The high value came from partial...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 49115 文件日期: 2008年10月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Kikeri,Sunita,Phipps-Ebeler,Verena
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Aid and the resource curse : how can aid be designed to preserve institutions? (英语)
Many studies have found that countries with abundant natural resources grow more slowly than those without—a phenomenon often known as the “resource curse” or the “curse of oil.” Some development specialists...
文件类型: 观点 报告号: 32840 文件日期: 2005年4月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Harford,Timothy Douglas,Klein. Michael