• Microfinance and mobile banking : blurring the lines
    In January 2012 a new banking business was about to emerge in the Philippines. After being in the wholesale microfinance lending business for two years, BanKO (which...
    Type: Brief Report#: 80649 Date: August 1, 2013 Author: Hanouch,Michel ; Rotman,Sarah Catherine
  • GEF country portfolio evaluation : India (1991-2012)
    The independent evaluation office of the global environment facility (GEF) undertook a country portfolio evaluation of GEF support to India across all GEF agencies and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 106004 Date: August 1, 2013
  • GEF annual performance report 2012
    The 2012 annual performance report (APR) of the global environment facility (GEF) was prepared by the GEF independent evaluation office to provide GEF council members,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 106010 Date: August 1, 2013
  • Cost benefit studies on disaster risk reduction in developing countries
    The focus of development actors working in the area of disaster management has shifted substantially from disaster recovery to disaster risk reduction over the past...
    Type: Brief Report#: 80584 Date: August 1, 2013 Author: Kc,Shyam
  • Madagascar : Port of Toamasina
    With support from IFC to structure the transaction, the concession of the port of Toamasina has increased handling capacity at the port from 60 to 2,500 tons a day,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96914 Date: August 1, 2013
  • Samoa : Virgin Samoa Airlines
    A joint venture between the government of Samoa and Australia’s Virgin Blue, a low-cost carrier, turned an annual $7.5 million government subsidy into a $6.9 million...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96932 Date: August 1, 2013
  • Butwal power company limited
    The Butwal power company (BPC) limited is a leading hydropower company in Nepal involved in generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. It has a combined...
    Type: Brief Report#: 119877 Date: August 1, 2013
  • IFC championing women on corporate boards in Indonesia
    This story highlight’s IFC’s Women on Boards initiative, which falls under the Corporate Governance program and aims at promoting more women as board members....
    Type: Brief Report#: 177704 Date: July 31, 2013 Author: World Bank
  • Impact evaluation of NSP : using evaluation findings to strengthen the program
    The National Solidarity Program (NSP) is the largest development program in Afghanistan, now in phase three, and with disbursement to rural communities of more than...
    Type: Brief Report#: 81338 Date: July 21, 2013 Author: Mghenyi,Elliot Wamboka
  • Poland: Reforming the Public Sector Pay System
    The Polish Ministry of Finance (MOF) asked the World Bank to provide technical advice on the country’s system of public sector pay, and to help answer three fundamental...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180468 Date: July 18, 2013 Author: World Bank
  • What is Bulgaria’s Green Potential
    This brief focuses on World Bank Country Manager Markus Repnik’s engaging discussion with 150 private sector and civil society representatives at the Fourth Green...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180621 Date: July 17, 2013 Author: World Bank
  • Growth slowdown extends into 2013
    This brief focuses on the recent change in government in Egypt, five countries in the Middle East and North Africa Region, including Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan...
    Type: Brief Report#: 84445 Date: July 15, 2013 Author: Mottaghi, Lili
  • Information and Communications for Development (IC4D)
    Information and communications for development is a publication series that produces a report every few years on the state of information and communication technologies...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166337 Date: July 9, 2013
  • Boosting investor confidence in Indonesia
    Indonesia was in a relatively strong position when the global financial crisis struck in September 2008. Real GDP growth was at a ten-year high of 6.3 percent in 2007....
    Type: Brief Report#: 81170 Date: July 2, 2013 Author: Navarro-Martin,Miguel
  • Local currency financing at sub-national level in Mexico
    Providing financing to Mexican sub-national governments was challenging due to various market conditions and regulations. First, specific constitutional provisions required...
    Type: Brief Report#: 81178 Date: July 2, 2013
  • Monitoring the composition and evolution of the research networks of the CGIAR Research Program onRoots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)
    Several tools have been developed in the last three decades to manage not-for-profit research activities. Most of these tools have focused on research outputs or outcomes,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103584 Date: July 1, 2013 Author: Ekboir,Javier M. ; Blundo Canto, Genowefa ; Sette, Cristina
  • Turkey regular economic brief
    In this issue: following the soft landing in 2012, economic growth is staging a moderate recovery in 2013; Turkey's external financing needs remain its critical vulnerability...
    Type: Brief Report#: 79275 Date: July 1, 2013
  • Inclusive growth revisited : measurement and determinants
    The call for inclusive growth has been unanimously broadcasted by policy makers across the world. The Arab spring, the growing divide between Main Street and Wall Street...
    Type: Brief Report#: 79445 Date: July 1, 2013 Author: Anand, Rahul ; Mishra, Saurabh ; Peiris, Shanaka J.
  • Joint Effort Taps into Russia's Energy Efficiency Potential
    The Russian Federation is the world's third largest energy-consuming country. Yet its market for investments in improving energy efficiency had been developing slowly....
    Type: Brief Report#: 91501 Date: July 1, 2013
  • Lessons learned from the Moroccan crisis
    For a decade, the Moroccan microcredit sector was a rising star, boasting top-performing institutions enthusiastically supported by local and international funders....
    Type: Brief Report#: 80532 Date: July 1, 2013 Author: Chehade,Nadine Gabriel ; Negre,Alice
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