Documentos e informes

Service Performance Guarantees for Public Utilities and Beyond - An Innovation with Potential to Attract Investors to Emerging Markets (Inglés)

Emerging market countries require substantial foreign investment for development, economic growth,and poverty alleviation. There are multiple challenges to attracting this investment, however, ranging...

Ethiopia’s Potential as a Manufacturing Destination : Results From the Enterprise Surveys (Inglés)

Industrial location responds to many factors, including geography, transport, logistics and ease of integration into global value chains, domestic market size and agglomeration potential, labor and management...

ID4D Country Diagnostic : Ethiopia (Inglés)

Ethiopia’s system of identification is at a crossroads. For the first time, a proclamation issued in 2012 establishes two new government agencies tasked with the implementation and management of a civil...

Identification for Development (ID4D) country diagnostic : Kenya (Inglés)

Identification schemes are key enablers for the effective delivery of services and more broadly for the quality of engagement between a country’s government and its citizens. Legal identity is now recognized...

The identity target in the post-2015 development agenda : enabling access to services for all (Inglés)

Robust personal identification (ID) systems are critical to the success of many development programs. Regardless of the methods used, official ID for all - together with the legal, political, and economic...

How should donors respond to resource windfalls in poor countries? (Inglés)

Natural resources are being discovered in more countries, both rich and poor. Many of the new and aspiring resource exporters are low-income countries that are still receiving substantial levels of foreign...

The role of identification in the post-2015 development agenda (Inglés)

Digital identity toolkit : a guide for stakeholders in Africa (Inglés)

Digital identity, or electronic identity (eID), offers developing nations a unique opportunity to accelerate the pace of their national progress. It changes the way services are delivered, helps grow a...

Digital identity toolkit : a guide for stakeholders in Africa : Guide de l'identité électronique : à l'intention des parties prenantes d'Afrique (Francés)

Digital identity, or electronic identity (eID), offers developing nations a unique opportunity to accelerate the pace of their national progress. It changes the way services are delivered, helps grow a...

How should donors respond to resource windfalls in poor countries ? from aid to insurance (Inglés)

Natural resources are being discovered in more countries, both rich and poor. Many of the new and aspiring resource exporters are low-income countries that are still receiving substantial levels of foreign...

Sovereign wealth funds and long-term development finance : risks and opportunities (Inglés)

Sovereign wealth funds represent a large and growing pool of savings. An increasing number of these funds are owned by natural resource–exporting countries and have a variety of objectives, including intergenerational...

Sovereign wealth funds and domestic investment in resource-rich countries : love me, or love me not? (Inglés)

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) represent a large and growing pool of savings. An increasing number of these funds are owned by natural resource, exporting countries and have a variety of objectives, including...

Annual World Bank conference on development economics global 2010 : lessons from East Asia and the Global financial crisis (Inglés)

The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is a forum for discussion and debate of important policy issues facing developing countries. The conferences emphasize the contribution...

Development Economics and the International Development Association : Development Economics and the International Development Association (Inglés)

Prevailing economic ideas -- and fashions -- about development have influenced the International Development Association (IDA) since its creation in 1960. The creation of the organization itself is the...

What matters to African firms ? the relevance of perceptions data (Inglés)

Can perceptions data help us understand investment climate constraints facing the private sector? Or do firms simply complain about everything? In this paper, the authors provide a picture of how firms'...

Making aid work : the end of the cold war and progress toward a new aid architecture should make aid more effective (Inglés)

Findings reports on ongoing operational, economic, and sector work carried out by the World Bank and its member governments in the Africa Region. This issued focuses on the new aid architecture and how...

Improving the dynamics of aid : towards more predictable budget support (Inglés)

This paper considers approaches towards improving the predictability of aid to low income countries, with a special focus on budget support. In order to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development...

Business environment and comparative advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data (Inglés)

This paper ties together the macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence on the competitiveness of African manufacturing sectors. The conceptual framework is based on the newer theories that see the evolution...

Implementing performance-based aid in Africa: the country policy and institutional assessment (Inglés)

Unlike most other donors, IDA bases its country envelopes on a formal performance assessment, the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). This paper takes the CPIA instrument as given. It outlines...

Environment matters at the World Bank - annual review 2004 (Inglés)

This Annual Review of Environment Matters, dedicated to Economic Growth and the Environment, brings together a wide variety of external and internal viewpoints on the challenges ahead, and the progress...