• Participation of youth
    This note provides examples that investors, civil society, and governments can follow to engage youth in participating in agriculture. Young people can be the driving...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124296 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Public transparency
    This note provides guidance on the type of information about agricultural investments that investors and governments can make publicly available. Transparency about...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124285 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Risk and vulnerability in the Pacific
    Vulnerability significantly compounds hardship in the Pacific. More than twenty percent of people in most Pacific Island Countries (PIC) live in hardship, meaning they...
    Type: Brief Report#: 123790 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Sharma,Manohar
  • How Well Do We Measure Non-Cognitive Skills in Developing Countries Initial Lessons from STEP Skills Measurement Program
    Standard skills indicators leave an information gap on workforce skill characteristics, job skill requirements, and quality of worker-job matches that prevents policymakers...
    Type: Brief Report#: 123792 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Laajaj,Rachid ; Arias Diaz,Omar S. ; Macours,Karen ; Rubio-Codina,Marta ; Vakis,Renos
  • Choosing appropriate business models
    This note provides guidance on considerations in the selection of an appropriate business model through which to conduct an agricultural investment. Agricultural investments...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124278 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Food security and nutrition
    This note provides guidance on how to ensure tan agricultural investment makes a positive contribution to local and national food security and nutrition. Investments...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124297 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Empowering women
    This note addresses practices for reducing gender inequalities and for empowering women to make a positive contribution to development through agricultural investments....
    Type: Brief Report#: 124295 Date: March 1, 2018
  • The Fintech Revolution: A Threat to Global Banking
    The period since the global financial crisis of 2008 has been characterized by the emergence of a broad set of tech-driven financial companies ("fintech" companies),...
    Type: Brief Report#: 125038 Date: March 1, 2018 Author: Cortina Lorente,Juan Jose ; Schmukler,Sergio L.
  • Screening prospective investors
    This note provides guidance to governments on how to screen and select prospective investment projects to ensure they maximize the social, economic, and environmental...
    Type: Brief Report#: 124281 Date: March 1, 2018
  • World Bank Assisting the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Mainstream Climate Risk in Road Management
    Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) has been suffering increased flooding and landslide events in recent years due to the impact of global climate change. In 2014 a 1 in 500...
    Type: Brief Report#: 133349 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Indonesia daily economic update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for March 1, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded 3.18 percent year-on-year...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126432 Date: March 1, 2018
  • Indonesia daily economic update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for February 28, 2018 contains economic highlights including : (i) President Jokowi has given the green light for the establishment...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126529 Date: February 28, 2018
  • Indonesia daily economic update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for February 27, 2018 contains economic highlights including : (i) state-owned energy company Pertamina has increased the...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126527 Date: February 27, 2018
  • Indonesia economic week in review : February 26-March 2, 2018
    The Jakarta Composite Index fell 0.6 percent over the week, in line with most markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar, Euro and Japanese...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126407 Date: February 26, 2018
  • Indonesia daily economic update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for February 26, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Bank Indonesia recorded 7.4 percent year-on-year credit...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126525 Date: February 26, 2018
  • Indonesia daily economic update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for February 23, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Bank Indonesia recorded 3.25 percent year-on-year inflation...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126523 Date: February 23, 2018
  • Indonesia daily economic update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for February 22, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The Directorate General of Taxation launched a tax data...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126520 Date: February 22, 2018
  • Indonesia daily economic update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for February 21, 2018 contains economic highlights, including that there will be four incentives to boost investment are...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126518 Date: February 21, 2018
  • Indonesia daily economic update
    This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for February 20, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Indonesia’s motorcycle sales rose 1.8 percent while car...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126516 Date: February 20, 2018
  • Indonesia economic week in review : February 19-23, 2018
    The Jakarta Composite Index rose 0.5 percent over the week, in line with most markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar and Japanese Yen by...
    Type: Brief Report#: 126405 Date: February 19, 2018
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