Documentos e informes
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How Do Rising US Interest Rates Affect Developing East Asian Economies? (Inglés)
This Brief examines the impact of US interest rate hikes on developing East Asian economies. The effect will depend on the underlying factors driving the changes in US interest rates. US interest rates...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 182276 Fecha del documento: 25 de mayo de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fukuzawa,Daisuke,Islamaj,Ergys,Ruch,Franz Ulrich
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Helping Western Balkan SMEs Expand Exports Through Online Training and Consulting (Inglés)
One of the key challenges facing innovative small and medium enterprises is customer acquisition. This is especially a constraint in less populated countries like those in the Western Balkans, where domestic...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 178393 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cusolito,Ana Paula,Darova,Ornella,Mckenzie,David J.
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What was the Impact of Creating Better Jobs for More People in China’s Economic Transformation? What We Know and Questions for Further Investigation (Inglés)
The authors show that for China the movement of more people into better jobs with higher incomes formed a very important explanation for the country’s long-term success in growth and poverty reduction...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 165538 Fecha del documento: 26 de octubre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Merotto,Dino Leonardo,Jiang,Hanchen
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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...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 133876 Fecha del documento: 8 de enero de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ramachandran,Vijay,Gelb,Alan Harold,Buehler,Martin Reto
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Losing the gains of the past : the welfare and distributional impacts of the twin crises in Iraq 2014 (Inglés)
Iraq was plunged into two simultaneous crises in the second half of 2014, one driven by a sharp decline in oil prices, the other, by the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The severity and...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 125503 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Krishnan,Nandini,Olivieri,Sergio Daniel
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Fifth Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the WBG and the IMF, Paris, September 1950 (Inglés)
The Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group meet once a year in the fall to discuss the work of their respective institutions. The Annual Meetings, which take place...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 104698 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Educational attainment in Afghanistan : an economic analysis (Inglés)
Afghanistan's ability to enhance its human capital resources will determine the course of the nation's future economic, human and social development. Recognizing this, the Government of Afghanistan is...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 80121 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Auturupane, Harsha,Gunatilake, Ramani,Shojo,Mari,Ebenezer,Roshini Mary
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Lessons from scaling up : developing value chains for wool - lessons from Mongolia (Inglés)
The new 'lessons from practice: assessing scalability' report aims to provide specific tools and guidance to World Bank Task Team Leaders (TTLs) and other agricultural development specialists which can...
Número del informe: 69572 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Antikainen,Kaisa,Larson,Gunnar,Mackedon,John
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Who needs legal aid services? Addressing demand in Jordan (Inglés)
With the launch of two World Bank-funded programs, Jordan is stepping where few countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have gone before the development of comprehensive legal aid services...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 68270 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Prettitore,Paul Scott
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Gender-informing aid for trade : entry points and initial lessons learned from the World Bank (Inglés)
The effects of policy interventions on women are of increasing concern to policy makers in all fields, and trade is no exception. This note reviews recent World Bank projects and studies that 'gender inform'...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 63516 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gamberoni,Elisa,Reis,Jose Guilherme
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Microfinance and mobile banking : the story so far : Microfinanzas y banca movil : La situacion hasta el momento (Español)
Late one night in November 2007 Aleksandr Kalanda, chief executive officer of Opportunity Bank in Malawi, sat in his office reviewing strategic plans for 2008. The commercial microfinance bank had doubled...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 56628 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kumar,Kabir Chandra,Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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Microfinance and mobile banking : the story so far (Inglés)
Late one night in November 2007 Aleksandr Kalanda, chief executive officer of Opportunity Bank in Malawi, sat in his office reviewing strategic plans for 2008. The commercial microfinance bank had doubled...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 56628 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kumar,Kabir Chandra,Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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Microfinance and mobile banking : the story so far : Microfinance et banque mobile : quelles experiences a ce jour ? (Francés)
Late one night in November 2007 Aleksandr Kalanda, chief executive officer of Opportunity Bank in Malawi, sat in his office reviewing strategic plans for 2008. The commercial microfinance bank had doubled...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 56628 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kumar,Kabir Chandra,Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Rotman,Sarah Catherine
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Greenhouse emissions and climate change : implications for developing countries and public policy (Inglés)
There is no longer any serious debate about whether greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are altering the earth's climate. There is also a broad consensus that efficient mitigation of emissions...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 57761 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Wheeler, David
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Distortions to agricultural incentives in the United States and Canada (Vol. 1 of 3) : Main report (Inglés)
There is much in common between the agricultural sectors of the United States and Canada. This chapter begins with a brief background on the two sectors, then reviews their histories of farm policy developments...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 56141 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gardner,Bruce L.
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Distortions to agricultural incentives in the United States and Canada (Vol. 3 of 3) : National spreadsheet for agricultural distortions in US (Inglés)
There is much in common between the agricultural sectors of the United States and Canada. This chapter begins with a brief background on the two sectors, then reviews their histories of farm policy developments...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 56141 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gardner,Bruce L.
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Distortions to agricultural incentives in the United States and Canada (Vol. 2 of 3) : National spreadsheet for agricultural distortions in Canada (Inglés)
There is much in common between the agricultural sectors of the United States and Canada. This chapter begins with a brief background on the two sectors, then reviews their histories of farm policy developments...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 56141 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gardner,Bruce L.
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What determines U.S. Swap spreads ? (Inglés)
This paper examines the evolution of the U.S. interest swap market. The authors review the theory and past empirical studies on U.S. swap spreads, and estimate an error-correction model for maturities...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 33427 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kobor,Adam,Shi,Lishan,Zelenko,Ivan
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Voices of the girls : crossing the barriers between youth, gender, and poverty (Inglés)
The primary strategic goal of the World Bank's civil society team for Latin America and the Caribbean is to promote inclusive governance. Governance is understood as the sum of the many ways that individuals...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 53821 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cesilini,Sandra,Martin,Lisandro Roman,Aberg,Caroline
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Public and private funding of basic education in Zambia : implications of budgetary allocations for service delivery (Inglés)
This report presents findings from a survey of 182 primary (grades 1-7) and basic (grades 1-9) schools carried out in Zambia in 2002. It describes and analyzes resource flows to these schools from three...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 29085 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2004 Autor: Das,Jishnu,Dercon,Stefan,Habyarimana,James Paul,Krishnan,Pramila