This note introduces the 13th edition of the Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP). Shared prosperity is the growth in per capita household income or consumption of the poorest 40 percent of the...
This note provides insights into socio-economic conditions and economic inclusion opportunities for two low-income, artisanal fishing and mollusk-gathering communities in Costa Rica, and explores the role...
Microsimulation modelling has become a powerful tool to analyze the effects of fiscal policy changes. The World Bank’s Equity Policy Lab (EPL) has developed a customizable microsimulation tool to assess...
Benin, along with sixteen other OHADA countries in Africa, revised their commercial law to introduce a new status called entreprenant. This status is designed for micro and small businesses, and registering...
This note outlines the critical barriers that constrain trade between Nigeria and Cameroon, describes the practical norms that have emerged as a response to those constraints, and recommends key reforms...
This note outlines the critical barriers that constrain trade between Nigeria and Cameroon, describes the practical norms that have emerged as a response to those constraints, and recommends key reforms...
Output-Based Aid (OBA) ties the disbursement of public funding to the achievement of clearly specified results that directly support improved access to basic services. OBA has emerged as an important way...
Output-Based Aid (OBA) ties the disbursement of public funding to the achievement of clearly specified results that directly support improved access to basic services. OBA has emerged as an important way...
Output-Based Aid (OBA) ties the disbursement of public funding to the achievement of clearly specified results that directly support improved access to basic services. OBA has emerged as an important way...
In 2009 seven low- or middle-income countries implemented 35 water projects with private participation involving investment of almost US$2 billion, according to just-released data from the Private Participation...
China's water resources are scarce and unevenly distributed. It has the sixth largest amount of renewable resources in the world, but a per capita availability that is only one-fourth the world average...
With the global economy teetering on the abyss of severe recession, political pressures demanding protection from import competition to protect employment are surfacing with increasing intensity around...
This note reviews the role legal aid can play as a catalyst to empower and strengthen the livelihoods of the poor in a World Bank-funded project in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP), the AP Rural...
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that saving is central to poor people's economic management strategies. Projects such as the financial diaries initiatives in India, Bangladesh, and South Africa; MicroSave...
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that saving is central to poor people's economic management strategies. Projects such as the financial diaries initiatives in India, Bangladesh, and South Africa; MicroSave...
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that saving is central to poor people's economic management strategies. Projects such as the financial diaries initiatives in India, Bangladesh, and South Africa; MicroSave...
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that saving is central to poor people's economic management strategies. Projects such as the financial diaries initiatives in India, Bangladesh, and South Africa; MicroSave...
Исследования неоднократно показывали, что сбережения являются основой экономических стратегий малоимущего населения. Такие проекты, как "Инициатива финансовых дневников" в Индии, Бангладеш и Южной Африке;...
The road sector is going through a period of substantial change. Countries have to keep pace with expanding demand for road infrastructure as well as addressing the backlog of maintenance and its underlying...
The road sector is going through a period of substantial change. Countries have to keep pace with expanding demand for road infrastructure as well as addressing the backlog of maintenance and its underlying...