High costs and logistical challenges are just two of the barriers that hamper small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and microentrepreneurs from fully participating in the growing e-commerce sector. However...
The growth of e-commerce has the potential to reduce shopping-related travel but brings with it additional freight vehicle trips for the delivery of online orders to consumers. Understanding the overall...
This VAT Digital Toolkit for Africa provides detailed guidance to assist African tax authorities in the design and implementation of robust policies for the application of Value Added Taxes (VAT) to digital...
The rapid digital transformation underway in Africa has the potential to have an equally transformative impact on women entrepreneurs. Although Africa boasts a higher incidence of women entrepreneurs compared...
The rapid digital transformation underway in Africa has the potential to have an equally transformative impact on women entrepreneurs. Although Africa boasts a higher incidence of women entrepreneurs compared...
The rapid digital transformation underway in Southeast Asia has the potential to have an equally transformative impact on women entrepreneurs. Although Southeast Asia boasts a higher incidence of women...
The rapid digital transformation underway in Southeast Asia has the potential to have an equally transformative impact on women entrepreneurs. Although Southeast Asia boasts a higher incidence of women...
The rapid digital transformation underway in Africa has the potential to have an equally transformative impact on women entrepreneurs. Although Africa boasts a higher incidence of women entrepreneurs compared...
The diagnostic sets out the results of the in-depth sector notes that were developed by the World Bank between May and December 2021, with a view to identifying the real obstacles to financial inclusion...
E-Commerce and Women-led Small and Medium Enterprises (WSMEs) in MENA, funded from the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), aims to help women-led SMEs in seven target countries to enhance their...
This knowledge brief focuses on platforms that have leveraged novel digital technologies to deliver location agnostic mentoring solutions to youth. The authors explore six key operational areas where innovations...
After more than one year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many emerging market economies in Indonesia are still deep in the throes of the battle against the virus, despite the arrival of vaccines...
India has ambitious goals to deliver electronic welfare payments, banking services, and digital local government services to each of its 638,000 villages. The road is fraught with challenges as about 60...