Artificial intelligence technologies are permeating financial services sectors around the world. The application of these technologies in emerging markets allows financial service providers to further...
This paper presents a new demographic profile of extreme and moderate poverty, defined as those living less than 1.90 dollars and between 1.90 dollars and 3.10 dollars per day in 2013, based on household...
In advance of International Women’s Day 2014, the World Bank Group Archives was taking a look at the World Bank Group’s early initiatives relating to women in development, a topic that became increasingly...
At a time when the World’s leading economies are rapidly greying, India is set to have the largestand youngest workforce the world has ever seen. Indeed, by 2020, when the global shortage ofmanpower soars...
This paper examines the challenge of providing financial services that support the multiple goals of rural households, including those related to their more universal, general household needs and those...
A total of United States (U.S.) 38 billion dollars in investment commitments, 107 infrastructure projects, 19 countries, and 4 sectors: this is a quick snapshot of what Singaporean companies invested in...
The report posits a long-term vision for Djibouti’s economic development with specific measures that form a road map for long term, sustainable growth. The current growth model is highly capital intensive...
To this day, policy makers, policy advisers, and economists in development institutions do not have any practical tools to help them to assess the impacts of policies aimed at promoting gender equality...
The 2011 World Development Report (WDR) on 'Conflict, Security and Development' has reaffirmed global research that conflict is in many respects a self-perpetuating cycle. Put simply, factors related to...
On October 7, 2009, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number eighty-five. It was resolved that the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group...
This paper empirically explores the political-economic determinants of why governments choose to tax or subsidize trade in agriculture. The authors use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA)...
This paper explores the extent to which formal, regulated financial institutions such as banks have been able to partner with "correspondents"- commercial entities whose primary objective and business...
The National Program for the Development of Community-Administered Education (PRONADE) in Guatemala began in 1992 with the objective of improving access to education in remote areas and to stimulate the...
Expanding onto more than 400 hectares and comprising more than 500 production facilities, the Industrial Park of Sidi Bernoussi-Zenata (ZISB), in Casablanca, is the most important and established companies...
The problems facing the fuel wood sector in Nicaragua can be summarized as follows: First, almost all harvest or production is based on non-sustainable forestry, with little or no regulation or enforcement...
In 2004, nine country programs involved in PROLINNOVA (Promoting Local Innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management) considered how local innovation could be enhanced...
In 2004, nine country programs involved in PROLINNOVA (Promoting Local Innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management) considered how local innovation could be enhanced...
The objective of this paper is to investigate poverty-reducing potential of smallholder agriculture in Zambia, considering suggested public actions expected to stimulate broad-based growth in the rural...
Ethiopia has made tremendous progress in expanding primary education since the mid-1990s. Yet the country continues to face daunting challenges, as it works to meet the goal of primary education for all...
The Bank has been involved in a number of urban upgrading projects over the last three decades, which have demonstrated that quality of life in slums can be improved through realistic policies, investments...