• Creating Opportunities for Firms : Findings from the Investment Climate Assessment
    The Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC) new five-year Rectangular Strategy III (RS III) continues to prioritize the business environment as a means of diversifying...
    Type: Brief Report#: 92599 Date: January 1, 2014
  • Results-based approaches to improve inclusion and job placement
    Job placement services that help young people put their new skills to use are an important element of successful youth skills training programs. This note looks at how...
    Type: Brief Report#: 89476 Date: January 1, 2014
  • Argentina - Health Financing Profile
    Argentina has one of the highest levels of GDP per capita in Latin America and has historically spent a considerable portion of GDP on health. It has, however, lagged...
    Type: Brief Report#: 89374 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Class, Deena ; Rajkumar, A. Sunil ; Cavagnero, Eleonora
  • Breaking the metal ceiling : female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors in Uganda
    Worldwide, female entrepreneurs tend to experience lower productivity and profit than their male peers. One reason for this is that women tend to be concentrated in...
    Type: Brief Report#: 93894 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Campos,Francisco Moraes Leitao ; Goldstein,Markus P. ; Mcgorman,Laura ; Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria ; Pimhidzai,Obert
  • Improving Vietnam's sustainability : key priorities for 2014 and beyond
    The Rural Road Gravel Assessment Program (RRGAP) comprised the evaluation of a representative selection of 269 WB-funded road links from 16 provinces. Between 2003 and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 92065 Date: January 1, 2014
  • SABER in Action: Nigeria - Strengthening education policy reform
    Nigeria's use of SABER tools and methods exemplifies how SABER can help change policy and develop new program initiatives based on global best practice. The governments...
    Type: Brief Report#: 90074 Date: January 1, 2014
  • Benefiting Honduran farmers through competition reforms
    Many developing economies still do not fully enjoy the benefits of competitive markets. Distorted markets reduce investment opportunities, increase business risks, raise...
    Type: Brief Report#: 91180 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Licetti, Martha Martinez
  • Bitcoin versus electronic money
    Bitcoin has had a volatile journey since it was launched in 2009, attracting attention among conventional investors as well as the black market. Regulators and policy...
    Type: Brief Report#: 88164 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Rotman,Sarah Catherine
  • The critical importance of data collection efforts in developing countries : the case of gender
    The World Bank’s enterprise surveys regularly collect data on private firms in the developing world. This note highlights the critical importance of such collection...
    Type: Brief Report#: 99337 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Amin,Mohammad
  • Checklist for integrating gender-related issues into agriculture water management
    Agricultural water management (AWM) includes irrigation and drainage, water management in rain-fed agriculture, recycled water reuse, water and land conservation, and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 85981 Date: January 1, 2014
  • SABER in Action: Quality Teaching - Driving success in education
    Teachers are the key drivers of education quality in any system, and teacher compensation is the largest item in education budgets, so getting teacher policies right...
    Type: Brief Report#: 80064 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Bettencourt,Sofia U. ; Hokugo,Akihiko ; Shiozaki,Yoshimitsu ; Tanaka,Yasuo
  • The systems of secondary cities : the neglected drivers of urbanising economies
    Many parts of the global and national systems of cities are not benefiting significantly from the ‘new age’ and economic geography of cities. Most of these are the secondary...
    Type: Brief Report#: 89861 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Roberts,Brian Herbert ; Hohmann,Rene Peter
  • Peru - Health financing profile
    In the past decade, Peru has shown great success in lowering child mortality and has reached near-universal coverage of immunizations (93 percent) and prenatal care...
    Type: Brief Report#: 88346 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Class, Deena ; Cavagnero, Eleonora ; Rajkumar, Sunil ; Ferl, Katharina
  • Colombia - Health Financing Profile
    Colombia is an upper middle income nation of approximately 46 million which borders the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. Colombia's post-colonial history...
    Type: Brief Report#: 89377 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Class, Deena ; Rajkumar, A. Sunil ; Cavagnero, Eleonora
  • Brazil - Health financing profile
    Over the last three decades, Brazil has made significant investments in social programs, including a comprehensive healthcare system. Since returning to democracy in...
    Type: Brief Report#: 88344 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Rajkumar, A. Sunil ; Cavagnero, Eleonora ; Class, Deena ; Ferl, Katharina
  • Jamaica - Health financing profile
    Jamaica is the largest English-speaking Island in the Caribbean with a population of approximately 2.8 million. Though Jamaica's primary health care system was considered...
    Type: Brief Report#: 88342 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Cavagnero,Eleonora Del Valle ; Class,Deena Marie ; Ferl,Katharina ; Rajkumar,Andrew Sunil
  • Health equity and financial protection datasheet : Nigeria
    The health equity and financial protection datasheets provide a picture of equity and financial protection in the health sectors of low-and middle-income countries....
    Type: Brief Report#: 78205 Date: January 1, 2014
  • Public-private dialogue for specific sectors : extractive industries
    Public-private dialogue (PPD) is a structured engagement mechanism that aims to bring together all relevant stakeholders, in a balanced and inclusive manner, to assess,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 90752 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Utterwulghe, Steve Denis Jean
  • Doubling the rate of improvement of energy efficiency
    Over the 20-year period between 1990 and 2010, strong demo¬graphic and economic growth around the world caused global primary energy consumption to grow at a compound...
    Type: Brief Report#: 90775 Date: January 1, 2014 Author: Bushueva,Irina ; Jaques Goldenberg,Ivan ; Sarkar,Ashok ; Sinton,Jonathan Edwards
  • Climate change adaptation planning in small and medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
    This issue focuses on a regional study and technical assistance initiative to strengthen climate adaptation planning for small and medium-sized cities in Latin America...
    Type: Brief Report#: 84441 Date: January 1, 2014
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