Customers are the key to any successful business. This is as true for a mobile money venture as it is for any other enterprise that serves customers. Yet a detailed understanding of the needs of customers...
Type: BriefReport#: 193265Date: August 27, 2024Author:
World Bank
Sub-Saharan Africa’s low agricultural productivity exacerbates rural poverty. An important investment, the sustainable use of groundwater for irrigation, has the potential to increase agricultural productivity,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10885Date: August 27, 2024Author:
Srivastava,Bhavya ;
Ifeanyi Nzegwu Edochie ;
Aparajita Goyal ;
Andrew L. Dabalen
Governments and nongovernmental organizations around the world utilize Community-Driven Development (CDD) approaches to address complex and overlapping development challenges. Despite consistent evidence...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10883Date: August 27, 2024Author:
Patrick John Barron ;
Patricia Fernandes ;
Stephen Joseph Winkler ;
Michael Woolcock
The People's Democratic Republic of Lao (Lao PDR) is pursuing a strategy of renewable energy sector expansion for domestic consumption and export to support socio-economic development targets. The power...
Type: ReportReport#: 193266Date: August 27, 2024Author:
World Bank
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, land is a scarce and valuable resource. The projected increase in land demand due to demographic trends, coupled with decreasing land supply due to...
Type: PublicationReport#: 193268Date: August 27, 2024Author:
Anna Corsi ;
Harris Selod
Card enabled payment service providers (PSPs) exist in Uzbekistan such as CLICK
and UPAY. Very few banks have mobile banking application for retail customers.
However, some PSPs have web portals and mobile...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193287Date: August 27, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper examines the impact of refugee camp hosting on local communities, specifically the Rohingya crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It uses remote sensing measurements and panel data to compare areas...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10884Date: August 27, 2024Author:
Alvin Etang Ndip ;
Sandra Rozo ;
Urbina,Maria Jose ;
Christina Wieser
The Turkish financial sector is highly advanced. However, stakeholders appear less driven to promote accesfinancis to financial services other than payment services. Currently all major banks and 2 of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193262Date: August 26, 2024Author:
Lake,Andrew ;
Minakshi Ramji
Advances in the scale and sophistication of individual income data compiled across high-income countries have enabled researchers to measure inequality and intergenerational mobility at a highly granular...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10880Date: August 26, 2024Author:
Roy Van der Weide ;
Michael Woolcock
While development literature has come a long way in conceptualizing and measuring poverty multidimensionally, policy interventions to address it remain trapped in fragmented, sector-specific approaches....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10882Date: August 26, 2024Author:
Stojkoski,Viktor ;
Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva ;
Kimberly Blair Bolch ;
Fernandez,Almudena
Since 1889, McCormick & Company has been considered a global leader in the flavor industry. Based in Maryland, United States, McCormick’s sales span over 170 countries, and the company specializes in manufacturing,...
Type: BriefReport#: 193542Date: August 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper contributes to the growing body of evidence on the effects of school closures on learning outcomes, focusing on a recent event in a developing country. During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic outbreak,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10879Date: August 26, 2024Author:
Amorim,Vivian ;
Caio Piza ;
Lautharte Jr.,Ildo José
The ten steps to selecting a master agent are: 1. Establish the key roles and responsibilities of master agents.
2. Chose the selection criteria that will result in a group of ]master agents that can achieve...
Type: BriefReport#: 193263Date: August 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
Biodiversity underpins the provision of critical ecosystem services, but it is being lost at an unprecedented rate and scale. The biodiversity crisis is a threat to development with far-reaching implications...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 193370Date: August 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
Results from mobile money initiatives demonstrate that although initial market research is very important, it often gets things wrong. Therefore, it is very important
to continue to conduct on-going research....
Type: BriefReport#: 193264Date: August 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
Currently, 5 mobile money solutions are offered in Tanzania. The telecom sector has dramatically improved access through mobile money. Over 40 percent of mobile money subscribers are active on a 90-day...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 193261Date: August 26, 2024Author:
Margarete O. Biallas ;
Fook,Alana
Myanmar has immense hydropower potential. It is home to four of the region’s largest river basins: Ayeyarwady, Chindwin, Sittaung, and Thanlwin. In October 2016, Myanmar’s Ministry of Natural Resources...
Type: ReportReport#: 193255Date: August 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
Current investment trends in emerging market and developing economies are not enough to meet the needs of their growing populations and will fall short of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals related...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10881Date: August 26, 2024Author:
John Nana Darko Francois ;
Maty Konte ;
Franz Ulrich Ruch
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