Poland’s Ministry of Economic Development and Technology has requested technical advisory services from the World Bank to implement the three priorities of the State Purchasing Policy related to professionalization...
This paper studies the effect of bank ownership on product innovation by borrowing firms, highlighting the role of the state, foreign, and combined foreign-state bank ownership. It uses Enterprise Survey...
This paper uses a unique dataset with matched information at the firm-bank level covering 13,000 firms and 550 banks in 36 emerging and developing economies over 2012–20. The analysis tests whether government-owned...
This note is organized as the follows. Section 1 looks at the growth of the SOE sector in the past two decades and characterizes its expansion since the global financial crisis. Section 2-4 addresses three...
This note is organized as the follows. Section 1 looks at the growth of the SOE sector in the past two decades and characterizes its expansion since the global financial crisis. Section 2-4 addresses three...