This chapter presents tools that can provide a general sense of market dynamics and perceptions of competition intensity and constraints in a country and impacts on market outcomes. This chapter is structured...
Ratings for Mozambique's Power Efficiency and Reliability Improvement Project were as follows: overall outcome, bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was modest. Some...
This paper presents a structured decision support tool to assist tax authorities improve the design of their Tax Identification Number System by: (i) identifying all critical decisions and (ii) presenting...
The Infrastructure Sector Assessment Program (InfraSAP) was launched in 2017 in support of the World Bank Group (WBG)’s Maximizing Finance for Development (MFD) approach to development finance. InfraSAP...
The recovery of private sector investments in infrastructure (also called private participation in infrastructure (PPI), which began after the COVID-19 pandemic, has continued into 2022. In total, private...
PPI investment in 2023 amounted to 86.0 billion dollars, representing 0.2 percent of the GDP of all low- and middle-income countries (38.8 trillion dollars). Although this represents a slight decrease...
Managing the impacts of disasters in emerging markets is an urgent necessity as climate related shocks grow in frequency and intensity. Governments face fiscal constraints, and insurance penetration remains...
Le Togo a accompli des progrès considérables sur le plan du développement au cours de la dernière décennie, mais il est toujours freiné par la lenteur de la transformation structurelle et un grand fossé...
The singularity of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement resides in its comprehensiveness; the agreement considers most of the challenges associated with international trade and identifies provisions to...
National Trade Facilitation Committees (NTFC) are key to the two major international agreements defining the way forward for trade facilitation (TF) reforms in the region: the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement...
En dépit de la sécheresse qui a légèrement freiné la croissance globale du PIB à 3.2 %, l’économie marocaine a montré des signes prometteurs en 2024. La croissance du secteur non agricole s’est accélérée...
La sostenibilidad en el sector transporte es un desafío clave para las ciudades colombianas, donde la modernización del parque automotor y la transición hacia tecnologías limpias juegan un papel fundamental...
The Supporting Effective Jobs Lending at Scale (SEJLS) program was piloted between 2020 and 2023 under the Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF). The program was designed to leverage large scale...
Can the provision of public goods strengthen the fiscal capacity of governments in developing countries and move them toward an equilibrium of widespread tax compliance? We present evidence of the impact...