Documentos e informes
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What Gets Measured Gets Done : Using a Corporate Scorecard to Drive Greater Investment Impact (Inglés)
In 2018, International Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) shareholders authorized a capital increase of 5.5 billion dollars, the largest increase in its history. The capital increase was based on a strategy...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 167197 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Narayanaswamy,Meera
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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors Resolution ; No. 108 : 2020 Regular Election of Directors (Inglés)
On July 31, 2020, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and eight. It was resolved that the 2020 regular election of directors shall...
Tipo de documento: Informe del Directorio Número del informe: 151400 Fecha del documento: 31 de julio de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Consumer protection in digital credit (Inglés)
This paper explores new approaches to address risks and problems in five areas: disclosure of loan terms and conditions; marketing approaches to promote responsible borrowing; appropriate and tailored...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 119214 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mazer, Rafe,McKee, Kate
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How do women fare in rural non-farm economy? (Inglés)
This paper studies the gender-based differences in access to and return from economic activities in the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) using panel datasets from Uganda and Ethiopia. The results show that...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 125696 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fuje,Habtamu Neda
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Middle East and North Africa regional brief (Inglés)
The process of political change and transition across much of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continued into 2013, with a great degree of heterogeneity across countries. The crisis in Syria...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 83723 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: MNAEX
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What promises does the Eurasian customs union hold for the future? (Inglés)
Established in 2010, the Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) carries significant economic weight as three of its member countries represent a potentially large consumer market. Drawing on existing literature...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 75656 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Carneiro,Francisco Galrao
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Border price and export demand shocks for developing countries from rest-of-world trade liberalization using the linkage model (Inglés)
The volume on agricultural price distortions, inequality and poverty begins with a global study that uses the World Bank's linkage model to examine the economic impacts in various countries, regions and...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 55948 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique,Valenzuela,Ernesto,Anderson,Kym
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Building sector concerns into macroeconomic financial programming : lessons from Senegal and Uganda (Inglés)
Under investment in infrastructure and social sectors during much of the 1990s has ignited a lively debate on "fiscal space"- that is, whether some countries could tolerate a larger public deficit if the...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 44873 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Estache,Antonio,Munoz,Rafael Fontes
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Operationalizing social accountability in policy-based lending : lessons learned from emerging experience (Inglés)
This study provides an overview of how World Bank-financed policy-based loans (both structural adjustment loans and Development Policy Lending's) (DPLs) have supported social accountability approaches...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 43068 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Silva-Leander,Annika,Reuben,William
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Public sectors in the Americas : How big are they (Inglés)
This note provides selected measurements of public sector size for the countries and territories of the Americas and discusses the resulting differences across countries and territories and across the...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 41105 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Carrizosa,Mauricio
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Los sectores públicos de las Américas: ¿Cuán grandes son? (Español)
Este artículo ofrece mediciones escogidas del tamaño del sector público en los países y territorios de las Américas, y analiza las diferencias resultantes entre estos países y territorios y entre las distintas...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 41105 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Carrizosa,Mauricio
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Community foundations : a tool for preservation of cultural heritage (Inglés)
This note emphasizes that Community Foundations present a practical instrument to supplement larger cultural heritage projects and to support the preservation and use of cultural heritage applying community...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 41013 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Strategies for cotton in West and Central Africa : enhancing competitiveness in the Cotton-4 - Strategies pour accroitre la competitivite du : Le secteur du coton : en Afrique de l'Ouest et du centre - strategies pour accroitre la competitivite du C4 (Francés)
The objective of this report is to identify ways of enhancing competitiveness through sector reforms in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali (the Cotton-4). The report promotes best practices to manage...
Tipo de documento: Otro estudios sobre agricultura Número del informe: 40533 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Salamon,Ilhem,Cheikh Rouhou Ep Abid,Hela,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
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Strategies for cotton in West and Central Africa : enhancing competitiveness in the Cotton-4 - Strategies pour accroitre la competitivite du : Strategies for cotton in West and Central Africa : enhancing competitiveness in the Cotton-4 (Inglés)
The objective of this report is to identify ways of enhancing competitiveness through sector reforms in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali (the Cotton-4). The report promotes best practices to manage...
Tipo de documento: Otro estudios sobre agricultura Número del informe: 40533 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Salamon,Ilhem,Cheikh Rouhou Ep Abid,Hela,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
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Greater Mekong Sub-region options for the structure of the GMS Power Trade Market : a first overview of issues and possible options (Inglés)
The World Bank, working together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), actively supports the development of a regional power market in the GMS: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the Yunnan...
Tipo de documento: Documento del Programa de Asistencia a la Gestión del Sector de la Energía (ESMAP) Número del informe: 39896 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barker,James,Minogue,Diane Catherine
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Pro-poor public spending reform : Uganda's virtual poverty fund (Inglés)
The Poverty Action Fund (PAF) was introduced in Uganda in 1998 to reorient government expenditures towards implementing its Poverty Education Action Plan (PEAP) as well as to account for Heavily Indebted...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 37141 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Canagarajah,Roy S.,Williamson,Timothy Stephen
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National and regional legislation for promotion and support to the prevention, control, and eradication of invasive species (Inglés)
One of the most difficult issues to be addressed in enabling, and conducting invasive control measures, is simply the need to apply practical legislative reasoning to the process. It is difficult because...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 35433 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Young, Tomme Rosanne
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Gambia, The - Community-based response to HIV/AIDS: lessons learned from BAFROW : Gambie - Riposte communautaire au VIH/SIDA : lecons apprises de BAFROW (Francés)
Foundation for Research on Women's Health, Productivity and the Environment (BAFROW) is a local women's Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in The Gambia that is considered an example of best practice...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 31070 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: P.C. Mohan (editor)
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Gambia, The - Community-based response to HIV/AIDS: lessons learned from BAFROW : Gambia, The - Community-based response to HIV/AIDS : lessons learned from BAFROW (Inglés)
Foundation for Research on Women's Health, Productivity and the Environment (BAFROW) is a local women's Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in The Gambia that is considered an example of best practice...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 31070 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: P.C. Mohan (editor)
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A microeconometric evaluation of the Mauritius Technology Diffusion Scheme (TDS) (Inglés)
This evaluation of the Mauritius Technology Diffusion Scheme was undertaken to serve as a "benchmark" for assessing matching grant schemes in other countries. It is the first microeconomic study evaluating...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 33738 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 1999 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Biggs,Tyler S.