By applying regression discontinuity
designs to a set of household surveys from the 1980-90s, the
authors examine whether Cote d’Ivoire’s aggregate wealth was
translated...
The third meeting of the consultative
group (CG) of the trust fund for statistical capacity
building (TFSCB) was held in Paris on October 6, 2002. It
was decided to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84047Date: October 14, 2013Author:
Bodin, Jean-Louis ;
Patel, Chandrakant A.
This is a statement by Mr. Guido
Mantega, Minister of Finance, Brazil, at the eighty-eighth
meeting of the Development Committe held on October 12,
2013. He starts describing...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 81901Date: October 12, 2013Author:
Mantega, Guido
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank. The
report discusses on the launch of a book - I am Malala which
tells the...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101891Date: October 11, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
The World Bank has been assisting the
Government of Colombia (GoC) since 2012 in the preparation
and implementation of an integrated Disaster Risk Financing
and Insurance...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 98007Date: October 10, 2013
This report summarizes the proceedings
and highlights from the Forum on Safe and Resilient
Infrastructure and the Government Executive Meeting that
took place in Manila,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90644Date: October 2, 2013
At the second International Development
Association (IDA)17 meeting held in Managua in July 2013,
participants discussed a proposal for enhancing IDA's
support to Fragile...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 81737Date: October 1, 2013
An effective commercial arbitration
regime matters for foreign investors. It gives parties the
autonomy to create a dispute resolution system tailored to
increasingly...
Report#: WPS6632Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Pouget,Sophie
The Development Impact Department (CDI)
was created in 2010 to help International Finance
Corporation (IFC) achieve its vision of creating opportunity
and improving...
The development objective of the
Additional Financing for the Second Road Maintenance and
Rehabilitation Project for Papua New Guinea is to: (i)
improve road transport...
When Jim Yong Kim look across the world
today and think about the most pressing issues, the ongoing
fiscal uncertainty in the United States greatly concerns us.
Our...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101888Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This paper investigates the impact of
political instability and civil conflict on firms. It
studies the unrest in Cote d'Ivoire that began in 2000,
using a census of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6640Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Klapper, Leora ;
Richmond, Christine ;
Tran, Trang
This issue of the International
Comparison Program (ICP) newsletter includes the following
headings: fifty-ninth International Statistical Institute
(ISI) World Statistics...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 83980Date: September 30, 2013
Brazil's subnational fiscal
framework has remained a source of unabated controversy
despite its relative stability over the past decade. The
objective of this study...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: ACS5885Date: September 27, 2013
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