In this paper we describe the Stata program cache, which allows for the full output of any Stata command to be cached to disk, enabling easy recovery of command output in the future without the need for...
This Brief highlights issues related to the education and skill level of workers and top managers in firms in 27 European Union countries (the EU-27), using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES). The...
Governments and academics have focused on financial education as a tool to improve financial wellbeing, but the efficacy of these initiatives is mixed. As an alternative to educating financial consumers...
This note analyzes the benefits of ECOWAS Common External Tariff (CET) and Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will outweigh costs in Nigeria, but competitiveness is the real issue. After decade-long...
With pressure for greater accountability and value for money in public budgets, widening the use of results-based financing (RBF) and setting up adequate independent mechanisms to verify results is becoming...
Located in the heart of Mali, the Office du Niger (ON) is one of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The French, who began the scheme in 1932, planned on developing about 1,000,000...
This brief includes the following headings: rationale, objectives, and basic features of the 1997 land law; acquiring land-use rights; obstacles to transferring urban land-use rights; promote the productive...
In transformational branchless banking, technology plays the key role of inexpensively transmitting transaction details between the customer, the retail agent, the financial service provider, and third...
In transformational branchless banking, technology plays the key role of inexpensively transmitting transaction details between the customer, the retail agent, the financial service provider, and third...
При проведении операций бесфилиальными банками технология играет решающую роль в недорогостоящей передаче подробных записей об операциях между клиентом, розничным агентом, учреждением, оказывающим финансовые...
In transformational branchless banking, technology plays the key role of inexpensively transmitting transaction details between the customer, the retail agent, the financial service provider, and third...
The low productivity of agricultural crops is among the factors leading to low income and food insecurity for rural people in the Southern Zone of Tanzania. The use of improved seeds is one way of increasing...
The low productivity of agricultural crops is among the factors leading to low income and food insecurity for rural people in the Southern Zone of Tanzania. The use of improved seeds is one way of increasing...
In 1999, the Indonesian Parliament adopted two laws requiring that drastic decentralization measures be implemented in fiscal 2001 in a "big bang" fashion. Several lessons can be drawn from Indonesia's...
In 1999, the Indonesian Parliament adopted two laws requiring that drastic decentralization measures be implemented in fiscal 2001 in a "big bang" fashion. Several lessons can be drawn from Indonesia's...
In 1999, the Indonesian Parliament adopted two laws requiring that drastic decentralization measures be implemented in fiscal 2001 in a "big bang" fashion. Several lessons can be drawn from Indonesia's...
In 1999, the Indonesian Parliament adopted two laws requiring that drastic decentralization measures be implemented in fiscal 2001 in a "big bang" fashion. Several lessons can be drawn from Indonesia's...
The Government of Kazakhstan has requested support from the World Bank for an Agricultural Post-privatization Assistance Project to support the development and commercialization of privatized farms and...
The first question any private loan officer is taught to ask is, how do one get money back? Borrowers have offered two broad answers to that question: giving an unsecured promise to pay, and offering collateral...