Documentos e informes
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Training Microenterprise Owners by Zoom (Inglés)
Digital technology offers the potential to lower the costs of delivering business training, and to enable it to be scaled across a wide geographic area. But there are questions about how feasible such...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 185033 Fecha del documento: 28 de septiembre de 2023 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Davies,Elwyn Adriaan Robin,Deffebach,Peter William,Iacovone,Leonardo,Mckenzie,David J.
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Rural Employment in Africa : Trends and Challenges (Inglés)
Africa’s rural population continues to expand rapidly and labor productivity in agriculture and many rural off farm activities remains low. This paper uses the lens of a dual economy and the associated...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 168926 Fecha del documento: 23 de febrero de 2022 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Christiaensen,Luc,Maertens,Miet
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Blended Concessional Finance : Governance Matters for Impact (Inglés)
Blended concessional finance, the combination of concessional funds with other types of finance on commercial terms, has great potential to mobilize capital and accelerate high-impact private sector investments...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 143355 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Sierra-Escalante,Kruskaia,Karlin,Arthur S.,Lauridsen,Morten Lykke
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Is random forest a superior methodology for predicting poverty? : an empirical assessment (Inglés)
Random forest is in many fields of research a common method for data driven predictions. Within economics and prediction of poverty, random forest is rarely used. Comparing out-of-sample predictions in...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 125655 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Pave Sohnesen,Thomas,Stender,Niels
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Seventh Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the WBG and IMF, Mexico City, Sept. 1952 (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. Following the established tradition...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 104702 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Managing the balancing act : energy subsidies and energy affordability (Inglés)
Many Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries are faced with a difficult balancing act of cutting subsidies to the energy sector while protecting affordability for consumers. This study assesses at the...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 83946 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ruggeri Laderchi,Caterina,Olivier,Anne,Trimble,Christopher Philip
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Managing the balancing act : energy subsidies and energy affordability (Ruso)
Many Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries are faced with a difficult balancing act of cutting subsidies to the energy sector while protecting affordability for consumers. This study assesses at the...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 83946 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ruggeri Laderchi,Caterina,Olivier,Anne,Trimble,Christopher Philip
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Promoting youth opportunities and participation in Morocco (Inglés)
This quick note is based on the report of the same name which was prepared just prior to the Arab Spring. The study anticipates the demands for social and economic inclusion articulated by Moroccan young...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 73001 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: La Cava,Gloria,Ivanic,Maros,Jillson,Irene Anne,Morgandi,Matteo,Serajuddin,Umar,Vishwanath,Tara
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Trade finance during the 2008-9 trade collapse : key takeaways (Inglés)
Trade finance matters for trade, and when financial markets and world trade collapsed three years ago, a shortage in trade finance was hailed as a possible culprit. Because of the potential for global...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 64687 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Chauffour,Jean-Pierre Christophe,Malouche,Mariem
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Branchless Banking 2010 : who’s served? at what price? what’s next? : Banque à distance 2010 : pour qui? à quel prix? quelles perspectives? (Francés)
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 82620 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Pickens,Mark
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Branchless Banking 2010 : who’s served? at what price? what’s next? (Chino)
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 82620 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Pickens,Mark
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Branchless Banking 2010 : who’s served? at what price? what’s next? : La banca sin sucursales en 2010 : ¿a quién presta servicios? ¿a qué precio? ¿Hacia dónde se dirige? (Español)
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 82620 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Pickens,Mark
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Branchless Banking 2010 : who’s served? at what price? what’s next? (Inglés)
New research reveals that low-income families in Bangladesh, India, and South Africa use an average of eight different financial instruments each year to move money over time, and that active management...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 82620 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mckay,Claudia Vonderohe,Pickens,Mark
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Macro crises and targeting transfers to the poor (Inglés)
A central question for policy makers concerned with helping the poor through a macro crisis is how to target scarcer resources at a time of greater need. Technical arguments suggest that finer targeting...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 57765 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kanbur,Ravi
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Simulating the effects of supply and demand elasticities on political-economic equilibrium (Inglés)
Wallace's (1962) pioneering study brought to agricultural economics a focus on the role of supply and demand elasticity's in determining the efficiency with which agricultural policy transfers income among...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 55965 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bullock,David Streed
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Consumer participation in Infrastructure regulation - evidence from the East Asia and Pacific Region (Inglés)
Consumer Participation in Infrastructure Regulation draws on results of a survey questionnaire conducted among 45 infrastructure regulators in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. It finds that EAP...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 34478 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Muzzini,Elisa
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Whither Latin American capital markets? (Inglés)
"Whither Latin American Capital Markets?" a study published by the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank in June 2004, analyzes the status and prospects for capital market development in...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 33198 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: De La Torre,Augusto,Schmukler,Sergio L.
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¿Hacia dónde van los mercados de capital de América Latina? (Español)
¿Hacia dónde van los mercados de capital de América Latina? es un estudio publicado por la Región de América Latina y el Caribe del Banco Mundial en junio de 2004 que analiza el estado y las perspectivas...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 33198 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: De La Torre,Augusto,Schmukler,Sergio L.
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How will we know millennium development results when we see them? Building a results-based monitoring and evaluation system to give us the answer (Inglés)
Results based monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a powerful public management tool to help policy makers track progress and demonstrate the outcomes and impacts of a given policy, program, or project...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 31268 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2004 Autor: Rist, Ray C.,White,Elizabeth M.,Kusek,Jody Zall
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Improving tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa: things that work (Inglés)
This document reports on a regional training conference entitled Improving Tertiary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Things That Work! Which was held in Accra, Ghana on September 23-25, 2003 in the effort...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 29713 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2004 Autor: Bollag,Burton S.