The country partnership framework (CPF)
presents to cover a six-year period, with progress and
learning reviews (PLRs) every two years to ensure close
alignment with...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 135421Date: May 2, 2019
Traditionally, improvements to
accessibility for rural women through World Bank transport
programs have been measured by the change in the number of
villagers who live...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS0000817Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Krambeck,Holly ;
Qu,Li ;
Antos,Sarah Elizabeth ;
Fox,Charles James Edward
This Philippines Monthly Economic
Developments Newsletter includes some of the following
headlines: economic growth decelerated sharply to 5.6
percent, year-on-year,...
Sustainable energy for all (SE4ALL) is a
global coalition of governments, private sector, civil
society, and international organizations with a primary goal
of ensuring...
Mongolia has a comparative advantage in
agribusiness, especially downstream industries using
livestock products. Yet its share in worldwide exports of
agribusiness commodities...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS0000216Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Clarke,Julian Latimer ;
Piatkowski,Marcin Miroslaw
Haiti has the highest maternal and
neo-natal mortality rates in the Latin America and Caribbean
region. Low rates of prenatal and postnatal care, and
institutional births,...
Africa’s natural and socio-cultural
resources match the growing demand of the international and
intra-regional tourism market. Despite their significant
potential, many...
The European Commission (EC) launched
the Catching-up Regions (CuR) Initiative in April 2016,
which offered tailored technical support to selected regions
in Poland...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 137890Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Huang,Chyi-Yun ;
Wolszczak,Grzegorz Aleksander
Haiti has the highest maternal and
neo-natal mortality rates in the Latin America and Caribbean
region. Low rates of prenatal and postnatal care, and
institutional births,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 138418Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Llopis Abella,Jimena ;
Perge,Emilie Bernadette ;
Mathurin,Tania Mindy ;
Afif,Zeina
Although Brazil is the fifth largest
country in the world, it has a relatively low number of
natural hazards. However, its exposure to natural hazards
has increased...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 137098Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Ogita,Satoshi ;
Pedroso,Frederico Ferreira Fonseca
This report builds on experience in
several developing countries to propose a National Program
of financial and technical support to Indonesian Subnational
Government...
The study aims to understand the
constraints to women’s equal participation in the roads
sector inMalawi to inform the development of interventions
to promote gender...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 136570Date: May 1, 2019Author:
Muller,Miriam ;
Melibaeva,Sevara ;
Machado,Ana Luiza ;
Casabonne,Ursula
Antiaeriană, a vacant site, is one of
the city’s flagship urban revitalization initiatives with
significant potential to catalyze follow-on private sector
investment....
This newsletter includes the following
headings: Field Coordinator Training Update; Policy Research
Talk: Evidence to Fix Bureaucracies; Blogs; Research, Events.
With funding support from the World Bank
and the Government of Australia, the Mekong Delta Transport
Infrastructure Development Project (MDTIDP, henceforth
referred...
Business survey outcomes for micro and
small firms are notoriously noisy, with multiple sources of
measurement and recall error. This paper introduces a new
survey methodology...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8836Date: April 30, 2019Author:
Anderson,Stephen J. ;
Lazicky,Christy Marie ;
Zia,Bilal Husnain
A semiparametric varying coefficient
model is used to explore the heterogeneity in returns to
export promotion across countries. Differences in
characteristics of export-promotion...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8833Date: April 29, 2019Author:
Olarreaga,Marcelo ;
Sperlich,Stefan ;
Trachsel,Virginie
More than two-thirds of world trade
occurs through global value chains (GVCs), in which
production crosses at least one border, and typically many
borders, before final...
Type: PublicationReport#: 136044Date: April 15, 2019Author:
World Bank ;
World Trade Organization
This evaluation assesses the Bank
Group’s effectiveness and comparative advantage in fostering
regional integration during FY2003–17 and draws lessons that
can be used...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 135552Date: April 15, 2019
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