This chapter presents detailed Global
Findex 2021 data on the trends in the use of financial
services at the global and regional levels and offers
examples from specific...
The case for digitalizing economies has
never been stronger. Above all, the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
pandemic has made the benefits of conducting contactless
transactions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 173785Date: July 7, 2022Author:
Cusolito,Ana Paula ;
Gevaudan,Clement ;
Lederman,Daniel ;
Wood,Christina A.
This report examines how tax audits and
investigations can lead to uncovering white-collar crime and
how investigations of corruption can, in turn, lead to
prosecutions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 173781Date: July 7, 2022Author:
Brun,Jean Pierre ;
Cebreiro Gomez,Ana ;
Julien, Rita ;
Ndubai, Joy Waruguru ;
Owens,Jeffrey Phillip ;
Rao, Siddhesh ;
Soto, Yara Esquivel
This chapter presents detailed Global
Findex 2021 data on the trends in financial access at the
global and regional levels and offers examples from specific
economies...
Quality early childhood education (ECE)
is one of the most important investments societies can make
to help children build strong foundations that will support
a lifetime...
Type: PublicationReport#: 173782Date: July 7, 2022Author:
World Bank
This chapter on financial well-being
presents the findings from the Global Findex 2021 survey
related to financial resilience in the face of an unexpected
expense. Specifically,...
Impact evaluations are studies that
attempt to measure the causal impact of a project, program,
or policy on one or more outcomes. This book provides a
comprehensive...
Type: PublicationReport#: 173786Date: July 7, 2022Author:
Glewwe,Paul W. ;
Todd,Petra Elizabeth
The technological revolution, and the
accelerated adoption of digital solutions as a result of the
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, are transforming access to
finance....
This report examines the trends,
determinants, and impacts of migration of high-skilled
workers within the European Union in the past two decades.
High-skilled migration,...
The technological revolution, and the
accelerated adoption of digital solutions as a result of the
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, are transforming access to
finance....
A decade after the first spark of the
Arab Spring, large shares of healthy and capable working-age
populations remain excluded from the labor force and
employment altogether...
Type: PublicationReport#: 173783Date: July 7, 2022Author:
Islam,Asif Mohammed ;
Moosa,Dalal Hasan Sharif Sayed ;
Saliola,Federica
Financial incentives or performance pay
links payments to health facilities and workers to the
quantity and quality of services they deliver. These
performance incentives...
Type: PublicationReport#: 171612Date: July 4, 2022Author:
De Walque,Damien B. C. M. ;
Kandpal,Eeshani ;
Wagstaff, Adam ;
Friedman,Jed ;
Neelsen,Sven ;
Moritz Piatti-Fünfkirchen ;
Sautmann,Anja ;
Shapira,Gil ;
Van De Poel,Ellen
Digital technology allows businesses to
operate in a country without a physical presence, which
poses challenges for traditional taxation. The digital
debate focuses...
Type: PublicationReport#: 157140Date: July 1, 2022Author:
Lucas-Mas, Cristian Oliver ;
Junquera-Varela,Raul Felix
Governments need to cooperate more on
subsidies. This is for several reasons. Extensive subsidies
influence production and trade. Important new issues have
arisen, including...
Type: PublicationReport#: 173220Date: June 29, 2022Author:
IMF ;
OECD ;
World Bank ;
WTO
The economic recovery in South Asia
continues, despite the ferocious resurgence of Coronavirus
(COVID-19) earlier this year. This recovery has not undone
all the harm...
Type: PublicationReport#: 172720Date: June 19, 2022Author:
World Bank
For thousands of years, migration has
been a source of social and economic well-being for people
living on different shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Whether
through...
Type: PublicationReport#: 172693Date: June 19, 2022Author:
Testaverde,Mauro ;
Pavilon,Jacquelyn Nicole
The uneven recovery from the pandemic
has left countries in South Asia with multiple policy
challenges, which are exacerbated by the impact of the war
in Ukraine. While...
Type: PublicationReport#: 172721Date: June 19, 2022Author:
World Bank
Strategic investment funds (SIFs) have
gained prominence over the past two decades as governments
and other public sponsors globally have increasingly
co-opted the investment...
Type: PublicationReport#: 172646Date: June 16, 2022Author:
Divakaran,Shanthi ;
Halland,Havard ;
Lorenzato,Gianni ;
Rose,Gary Paul ;
Sarmiento-Saher,Sebastian Phillip
According to the Global Burden of
Disease 2019 study, air pollution from fine particulate
matter caused 6.4 million premature deaths and 93 billion
days lived with illness...
Outdoor air pollution accounts for an
estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide, the majority of
which are caused by exposure to fine particulate matter (or
PM2.5) air...
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