How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect...
This MENA K&L Quick Note highlights the key lessons learned from the workshop entitled: “Procurement Under Public private Partnerships (PPP): A Learning Event for the Water and Energy Sectors,” held in...
The combination of an increasing trade imbalance, concerns about deindustrialization after several years of booming commodity prices, and rising imports of intermediate inputs and capital goods over the...
Economists are sometimes accused of agreeing on almost nothing. An important policy question on which many economists appear to agree, however, is that there is not much to be said in favor of taxing business...
This note discusses the rapidly evolving issue of micro insurance in Latin America and how microfinance institutions (MFIs), insurance companies and donors can respond to its challenges. This note is part...
As discussed in Hawkins and Mann (2007), the World Bank dropped its engagement in the tourism sector during the 1980s after twenty years of financing Bank's tourism projects which included infrastructure...
The World Bank Group's clean energy for development investment framework action plan has outlined some of the key activities it intends to undertake in the area of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and...
Findings Info briefs reports on Good Practice in ongoing operational, economic and sector work carried out by the World Bank and its member governments in the Africa Region. This issue looks at the Senegal:...
Data that can be used to inform policy decisions are typically scarce in low-income countries, where standard policy prescriptions are less likely to apply. Interventions based on inadequate information...
Data that can be used to inform policy decisions are typically scarce in low-income countries, where standard policy prescriptions are less likely to apply. Interventions based on inadequate information...
The deregulation of the United Kingdom (U.K.) natural gas industry has facilitated new entry and competition in almost all segments of the industry except pipeline transportation. The new regulatory framework...
This Precis entitled, Participatory evaluation for rural development in Sri Lanka, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Impact evaluation report, Sri Lanka : Kurunegala rural...
This Precis entitled, Participatory evaluation for rural development in Sri Lanka, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Impact evaluation report, Sri Lanka : Kurunegala rural...
This Precis entitled, Participatory evaluation for rural development in Sri Lanka, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Impact evaluation report, Sri Lanka : Kurunegala rural...
On October 11, 1985, the International Development Association (IDA) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and thirty eight. It was resolved that the Governors of the International Bank...
On May 11, 1983, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred thirty-eight. It was resolved that, by accepting membership in the Corporation, Cape...
On April 6, 1960, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and thirty-eight. It was resolved that: the Board of Governors shall...
This press release announces President Truman signed a bill allowing national banks to deal in and underwrite bonds of the Bank.