The transportation of goods and people
via inland waterways has lost its position in Pakistan
during the last decades due to the development of land
transport systems...
Type: ReportReport#: 165820Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Zaidi,Hasan Afzal ;
Hoang,Dung Anh ;
Dahdah,Said ;
de Leijer,Harrie ;
Chaudhry,Farooque ;
Haneef,Rashid ;
van Liere,Richard ;
Paracha,Muhammad Bilal ;
Malik,Sehar Javed ;
Nasim,Usama ;
Quamber,Rubina
The key messages of this newsletter
include: (i) Merchandise trade strengthened in November 2021
despite persistent value-chain bottlenecks and logistics
constraints;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 168638Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Constantinescu,Ileana Cristina ;
Arvis,Jean Francois ;
Dairabayeva,Karlygash Serikovna ;
Dubey,Pratyush ;
Gillson,Ian John Douglas ;
Mulabdic,Alen ;
Souza Muramatsu,Karen ;
Nyawo,Mike ;
Ulybina,Daria ;
Wellisz,Chris L ;
Nucifora,Antonio ;
Haddad,Mona E.
The Philippines was among the most
infected countries in East Asia at the onset of the COVID-19
outbreak. This study analyzes how international trade on
various margins...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9911Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Arenas,Guillermo Carlos ;
Majune,Socrates Kraido ;
Montfaucon,Angella Faith Lapukeni
The paper explores the properties of a
modern urban model in which households’ and
firms’ locations in the city are endogenously
determined as functions...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9910Date: January 24, 2022Author:
Sturm,Daniel Marbod ;
Takeda,Kohei ;
Venables,Anthony J.
The Economic Monitor examines four
possible factors behind Tunisia’s slow recovery. First, the
drop in mobility related to the pandemic may have been more
harmful in...
Type: ReportReport#: 167938Date: January 20, 2022Author:
Cali,Massimiliano ;
Zitouna,Mohamed Habib ;
Andrianaivo,Mihasonirina ;
Berraies,Dorra ;
Hachicha Ep Ben Abdallah,Safia ;
Marrakchi Ep Charfi,Fatma ;
Drozd,Maciej Adam ;
Malouche,Mariem
This volume contains written
contributions from some of the key actors involved on both
the Chinese and the World Bank sides in the past four
decades of partnership....
Type: ReportReport#: 162034Date: January 18, 2022Author:
Raiser,Martin ;
Koch-Weser,Caio K. ;
Lim,Edwin R. ;
Burki,Javed ;
Bottelier,Pieter P. ;
Hope,Nicholas C. ;
Huang,Yukon ;
Dollar,David R. ;
Rohland,Klaus ;
Hofman,Bert ;
Yang,Shaolin ;
Wencai,Zhang ;
Chen,Shixin ;
Yingming,Yang ;
Yu,Ye ;
Zhongjing,Wang ;
Chang,Junhong ;
Kwakwa,Victoria
Evidence of public expenditure on
infrastructure is extremely sparse. Little is known about
the trends and patterns of infrastructure expenditure, and
there is no real...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9903Date: January 14, 2022Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Rana,Anshul ;
Gorgulu,Nisan
Access to infrastructure supports
economic development through structural transformation. This
paper investigates the links between investments in
electricity, Internet,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9899Date: January 13, 2022Author:
Lebrand,Mathilde Sylvie Maria
The World Bank Group completed the trade
and gender study in the Papua New Guinea to identify the
specific challenges that men and women face in cross-border
trade and...
This paper studies the effect of a
change in the amount of cash assistance provided to Afghan
refugees returning from Pakistan on household outcomes
post-return. Using...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9897Date: January 10, 2022Author:
Esper,Hisham ;
Krishnan,Nandini ;
Wieser,Christina
Gender equality is central to the World
Bank Group’s (WBG) twin goals of ending extreme poverty and
increasing shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. Gender
inequality...
How did the US-China trade war affect
global trade? Surprisingly, exports of products taxed by US
or China increased from “bystander”
countries to the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9894Date: January 6, 2022Author:
Fajgelbaum,Pablo David ;
Goldberg,Pinelopi Koujianou ;
Kennedy,Patrick ;
Khandelwal,Amit Kumar ;
Taglioni,Daria
The World Bank and the government of
Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment
(QII) Partnership in 2016 to raise awareness and scale up
attention to the...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 168480Date: January 1, 2022
Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women
Traders and Freight Forwarders in Vanuatu The World Bank
Group completed the Trade and Gender Study in the Vanuatu to
identify...
Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women
Traders and Freight Forwarders in Fiji The World Bank Group
completed the Trade and Gender Study in the Fiji to identify
the...
IEG’s Results and Performance
of the World Bank Group 2021 report, also known as RAP 2021,
assesses the World Bank Group’s performance by
analyzing the...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 166168Date: December 23, 2021
Using recent expenditure survey data,
this paper investigates the incidence of all indirect taxes
in Brazil. It applies a novel approach to estimate the
effective tax...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9891Date: December 20, 2021Author:
Lara Ibarra,Gabriel ;
Rubião,Rafael Macedo ;
Simoes Fleury,Eduardo
Existing literature on the relationship
between infrastructure and economic growth is inconclusive.
This study evaluates the contributions to economic growth of
three...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9888Date: December 17, 2021Author:
Timilsina,Govinda R. ;
Stern,David S. ;
Das,Debasish Kumar
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