• Financing Energy Efficiency, Part 2 : Credit Lines
    Despite offering huge economic returns, implementing energy efficiency measures encounters widespread and systemic barriers. A variety of market failures are keeping...
    Type: Brief Report#: 129785 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Wu,Yun ; Singh,Jasneet ; Tucker,Dylan Karl
  • Brazil - Fiscal Stabilization and Fiscal Adjustment : Returning to a Sustainable Path
    This package of policy notes is addressed to Brazilian society and specifically to the Presidential candidates and their teams of economic advisors in the 2018 election....
    Type: Brief Report#: 183216 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: World Bank
  • The Drive toward Universal Health Coverage
    Universal health coverage is a social goal that enables everyone to receive the quality health care they need, irrespective of ability to pay, without suffering financial...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124552 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Kim,Young Eun ; Loayza,Norman V.
  • Urban Mass Transit : A Lifeline for the World's Growing Cities
    As developing countries continue to urbanize, cities are increasingly important engines of economic development. The challenge for many developing cities is to achieve...
    Type: Brief Report#: 129784 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Darido,Georges Bianco ; Moody,Joanna Charlotte
  • Haiti : Can Preconditions for RBF be Established in Fragile States
    The Results in Education for All Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank provided funding to the Government of Haiti with the goal of establishing the preconditions...
    Type: Brief Report#: 130298 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Adelman,Melissa Ann ; Baron,Juan ; Lehe,Jonathan David
  • Job Quality and Poverty in Latin America
    Labor market dynamics have played a significant role in the social gains experienced recently across Latin America. Assessing the quality of employment, beyond the perspective...
    Type: Brief Report#: 129760 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Brummund,Peter ; Mann,Christopher Ryan ; Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
  • Financing Energy Efficiency, Part 1 : Revolving Funds
    Despite offering huge economic returns, implementing energy efficiency measures encounters widespread and systemic barriers. One solution is developing effective and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 129733 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Lukas,Aditya Alexander
  • The Latin American Companies Circle
    The Latin American Companies Circle is a unique initiative launched in May 2005 in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the recommendation of the Latin American Corporate Governance...
    Type: Brief Report#: 178295 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: World Bank
  • Better Crash Data Can Improve Road Safety
    Low- and middle- income countries typically lack adequate systems for collecting road crash data. This limits their capacity to monitor, effectively advocate for, manage,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 130119 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Krambeck,Holly ; Job,Raymond Franklin Soames ; Sultan,Sara
  • Can Government Intervention Make Firms More Investment-Ready
    Innovative start-ups and SMEs in developing and transition countries often have good ideas, but may not have these ideas fine-tuned to the stage where they can attract...
    Type: Brief Report#: 130145 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Cusolito,Ana Paula ; Dautovic,Ernest ; Mckenzie,David J.
  • Closing the Gender Gap in Extractives – What Has Been Done and What Have We Learned
    Women are not receiving equal benefits of the global development of oil, gas, and mineral resources, even as they shoulder a greater burden of the negative impacts....
    Type: Brief Report#: 129731 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Perks,Rachel Bernice ; Buitrago Orozco,Diana Catalina
  • Making a Difference in People's Lives : Rural Electrification in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
    Grid connectivity in rural Lao PDR yields widespread benefits: substantial improvements in household income, spending, ownership of durable assets, and children's education....
    Type: Brief Report#: 129736 Date: September 1, 2018 Author: Samad,Hussain A. ; Portale,Elisa
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 31, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the Financial Services Authority (OJK) recorded the non-performing...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131262 Date: August 31, 2018
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 30, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the government is to revise the regulation on franchise business,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131258 Date: August 30, 2018
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 29, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has cumulatively...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131251 Date: August 29, 2018
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 28, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The government has decided to increase the price floor of...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131248 Date: August 28, 2018
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 27, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The government is to maintain the zero export tariff for crude...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131235 Date: August 27, 2018
  • Indonesia Economic Week in Review : August 27 - 31, 2018
    The Jakarta Composite Index rose 0.8 percent over the week, in line with major markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar, Euro and Japanese...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131097 Date: August 27, 2018
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This report of Indonesia daily economic update for August 24, 2018 presents economic highlights: the financial services authority (OJK) has just issued a regulation...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131234 Date: August 24, 2018
  • Indonesia Daily Economic Update
    This report of Indonesia daily economic update for August 23, 2018 presents economic highlights: the government is planning to impose a multi-layered tax for plastic...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131232 Date: August 23, 2018
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