Using country-to-country data, this paper documents a set of novel stylized facts about the rise of the South in global finance. The paper assembles comprehensive bilateral data on cross-border bank loans...
This paper presents a bird’s eye overview of the investment policy and promotion (IPP) logical framework developed by the trade and competitiveness global practice of the WBG to address the challenge of...
This Investment Policy and Promotion Report has been prepared by the Investment Policy and Promotion team of the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice. The report aims to serve as...
Taking a chance on projects that other commercial investors have passed is what Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP’s) Private Sector Window does best: investing across the entire food...
The world economy is not what it used to be twenty years ago. For most of the 20th century, the world economy was characterized by developed (North) countries acting as 'center' to a 'periphery' of developing...
In fiscal year 2014, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) issued a total of $3.2 billion in guarantees for projects in MIGA's developing member countries. An additional $1.8 million in guarantees...
This Board report includes following headings: guarantee operations; eligibility requirements; contracts of guarantee; underwriting; claims; parallel and joint underwriting; guarantees of sponsored; annex...
The development objective of the Agricultural Technology Transfer Project is to develop and test innovative models for agricultural technology transfer and application aimed to generate additional farm...
Investment commitments to telecommunications projects with private participation in low- and middle-income countries amounted to US$78.1 billion in 2008, according to just-released data from the Private...
The report has been presented in five volumes. Volume one presents a synthesis of Independent Evaluation Group's (IEG's) overall evaluation of the integrated internal controls framework, drawing on both...
This note states that investment commitments to telecommunications projects with private participation in low- and middle-income countries amounted to US$75 billion in 2007, according to just-released...