The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed with a statement signaling the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era, a just and equitable transition, deep emissions cuts, and scaled-up...
Digital connectivity has enormous potential to support development. Yet today some four billion people in emerging economies remain offline, partly due to a lack of affordable Internet access. Sharing...
Shield wire systems running along existing high-voltage transmission lines can supply household electricity to communities located within 20 km of the high-voltage corridor. At a fraction of the cost of...
This paper assesses the impact of fiscal policy on the incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, and examines whether there is room for an increased role for fiscal policy in improving the well-being...
The headquarters of the World Bank Group is located in Washington, DC, and the telltale sign of spring in this area is the blossoming of cherry trees. The first cherry trees planted in Washington DC were...
For thousands of years, the people of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have coped with the challenges of climate variability by adapting their survival strategies to changes in rainfall and temperature...
Matching grants are one of the most common policy instruments used by developing country governments to try to foster technological upgrading, innovation, exports, use of business development services...
In 2011, there were 18 infrastructure projects that reached financial or contractual closure in 12 low and middle income countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Botswana (1), Kenya (2), Malawi (1), Nigeria (1)...
This paper offers evidence from interviews that took the pulse of more than 100 industry insiders to provide a self-assessment of microfinance governance today. Corporate governance serves to mediate interests...
This paper offers evidence from interviews that took the pulse of more than 100 industry insiders to provide a self-assessment of microfinance governance today. Corporate governance serves to mediate interests...
This paper offers evidence from interviews that took the pulse of more than 100 industry insiders to provide a self-assessment of microfinance governance today. Corporate governance serves to mediate interests...
Just before the 2008-9 global financial crises, policy makers were concerned about the rapid growth of bank credit, particularly in Europe; now, worry centers on a potential global credit crunch led by...
Britain contrary to received wisdom was not a free trader for most of the 1800s and, despite repeal of the Corn Laws, continued to have higher tariffs than the French until the last quarter of the century...
On October 22, 2007, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number seventy-nine. It was resolved that the Council of Governors of the Agency should consider...
The objective of this volume is to assess the relationships between growth and poverty reduction on the basis of a number of case studies, all but one of which are based on recent household survey data...
This brief includes the following headlines: structural changes in the global coffee market: the impact on Central America; economic effects of the coffee crisis; yields and production costs; effects of...
The World Bank is supporting a number of initiatives to rationalize the downstream oil sector of Sub-Saharan African countries. Such initiatives include the phasing-out of leaded gasoline (part of the...
Prior to the 1970s, parish farmers predominantly produced traditional vegetable crops for home consumption. At that time local farmers did not produce exotic vegetables, such as cabbages, carrots, lettuce...
The 2004 Annual Stakeholders Meeting of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from September 27-29, 2004. As a partnership program, the SSATP Annual...
The 2004 Annual Stakeholders Meeting of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from September 27-29, 2004. As a partnership program, the SSATP Annual...