The livestock sector in Bangladesh plays a significant role in employment, contributing to 14.5 percent of overall employment and over one-third of the agricultural sector's total employment. The Livestock...
The paper compares the distribution of energy and food subsidies across households and the impact of subsidy reforms on household welfare in the Middle East and North Africa region. The analysis uses a...
The proposal for stamps issued by the United Nations was first communicated in 1947, by Argentina. On October 24, 1951, the first United Nations commemorative stamp was issued as the result of an agreement...
While Iraq is a middle-income (IBRD) country it faces significant challenges which are commonly found in low income countries. Its economy also remains dependent on hydrocarbons and revenue from these...
In 2011, 31 new water and sewerage projects reached financial or contractual closure in six lower-and upper-middle income countries: Algeria (1), Brazil (2), China (26), Jordan (1), Mexico (1) and Peru...
Three years into the euro area sovereign debt crisis, investors continue to shun periphery government bonds, European banks are under severe funding pressures in both the dollar and euro private term markets...
Financial inclusion today is about financial markets that serve more people with more products at lower cost. This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscape...
Financial inclusion today is about financial markets that serve more people with more products at lower cost. This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscape...
Financial inclusion today is about financial markets that serve more people with more products at lower cost. This focus note first describes the challenges of the broader financial inclusion landscape...
This chapter begins with a brief summary of the long history of national distortions to agricultural markets. It then outlines the methodology used to generate annual indicators of the extent of government...
On September 20, 2006, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number seventy-six. It was resolved that the Council of Governors of the Agency should consider...
Firms have employed strategic alliances with other firms to effectively manage costs, overcome resource and technology constraints, and enhance competitive position. Strategic alliances can lead to productive...
The Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) is in its nascent stage of development. However, it has undertaken initial steps toward increasing public awareness of electricity regulation and issuing licenses...
Gender equality is an important indicator of a country's progress toward sustainable development and is one of the Millennium Development Goals. Yet World Bank teams often find gender equality a difficult...
Gender equality is an important indicator of a country's progress toward sustainable development and is one of the Millennium Development Goals. Yet World Bank teams often find gender equality a difficult...
Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning from own experience over generations but also knowledge gained from other sources...
Local innovation refers to the dynamics of IK - the knowledge that grows within a social group, incorporating learning from own experience over generations but also knowledge gained from other sources...
This paper highlights the World Bank's growing interest and involvement in social accountability initiatives, which derive from its core goals of promoting poverty reduction and effective and sustainable...
This paper reviews the main trends in growth, direction, and structure of intra- and extra-regional trade in the eastern and southern Africa (ESA) region and its trading blocks (COMESA, SADC, SACU and...
The report comprises the proceedings from the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP), and presents discussions held with stakeholders, towards moving SSATP's long-term...