This report is the fifth Development Policy Financing (DPF) Retrospective. DPF, one of the Bank’s three complementary financing instruments, is non-earmarked budget financing that supports policy and institutional...
Iraq is facing daunting challenges of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgency, political upheaval, and profound economic and humanitarian crises. Compounding the ISIS-related crisis, the sharp...
The Kenya CEM has five main messages. First, Kenya has performed well in the past decade in terms of economic growth, and modern services are behind the acceleration of growth. Expansion in these services...
Rwanda’s growth rates during the past few years exceeded the growth rates of developing countries, except for in 2013 when Rwanda’s growth decelerated to 4.7 percent. Among the 181 economies where 2014...
Rwanda’s growth rates during the past few years exceeded the growth rates of developing countries, except for in 2013 when Rwanda’s growth decelerated to 4.7 percent. Among the 181 economies where 2014...
From 1999 to 2011 Sudan had a period where it benefited from extensive discoveries of natural wealth through oil. But the oil economy had also clear symptoms of Dutch disease. Agriculture suffered from...
From 1999 to 2011 Sudan had a period where it benefited from extensive discoveries of natural wealth through oil. But the oil economy had also clear symptoms of Dutch disease. Agriculture suffered from...
From 1999 to 2011 Sudan had a period where it benefited from extensive discoveries of natural wealth through oil. But the oil economy had also clear symptoms of Dutch disease. Agriculture suffered from...
Fast growth in Rwanda since the turn of the century has been accompanied by solid poverty reduction. Between 2000 and 2013, gross domestic product (GDP) grew at eight percent per year, resulting in a 170...
The Rwanda Economic Update reports on and synthesizes recent economic developments and places them in a medium-term and global context. It analyzes the implications of these developments and policies for...
The Rwanda economic update reports on and synthesizes recent economic developments and places them in a medium-term and global context. It analyzes the implications of these developments and policies for...
This brief takes a detailed look at Sudan's 2013 budget, with three key aims: (i) to provide a reality check of the macro assumptions underlying the budget; (ii) to assess the structure of the expenditure...
This brief takes a detailed look at Sudan's 2013 budget, with three key aims: (i) to provide a reality check of the macro assumptions underlying the budget; (ii) to assess the structure of the expenditure...
Sudan's economy is at a historic crossroads. For the last decade, oil exports have fuelled strong economic growth: by 2010 the economy was more than twice the size it had been in 1999. But following South...
Sudan's economy is at a historic crossroads. For the last decade, oil exports have fuelled strong economic growth: by 2010 the economy was more than twice the size it had been in 1999. But following South...