This paper documents new facts on corporate taxation and the revenue potential of corporate minimum taxes, leveraging firm-level tax returns from 16 countries. First, effective tax rates follow a humped-shaped...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11090Date: March 24, 2025Author:
Pierre Bachas ;
Anne Brockmeyer ;
Roel Dom ;
Camille Marine Semelet
This Handbook is for practitioners working in the social protection or fisheries sectors searching for innovative ways to promote sustainable fisheries and reduce human vulnerability. Amid a global decline...
Drawing on global innovations in social registries, including those in the Sahel region, this presentation provides key considerations for the design and adaptation of social registries to enchance their...
Type: BriefReport#: 200011Date: March 24, 2025Author:
Luis Inaki Alberro Encinas ;
Sebastian Geschwind
This paper examines the data sources and methodologies used in economic research on corruption by analyzing 339 journal articles published in 2022 that include Journal of Economic Literature codes. The...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11091Date: March 24, 2025Author:
James Anderson ;
Akanksha Baidya
The singularity of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement resides in its comprehensiveness; the agreement considers most of the challenges associated with international trade and identifies provisions to...
Type: BriefReport#: 198042Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
National Trade Facilitation Committees (NTFC) are key to the two major international agreements defining the way forward for trade facilitation (TF) reforms in the region: the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 198041Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
The evidence so far is mixed as to whether educational entertainment (or “edutainment”) can create sustainable changes in financial attitudes and behaviors, and few studies have tested such hypotheses...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11088Date: March 21, 2025Author:
Fowler,Ben ;
Christopher Joseph Heitzig ;
Khan,Marrium ;
Renuka Pai ;
Sakshi Varma
The TFWA Program is developing a series of needs-based training courses for NTFC members in West Africa to foster NTFC capacities to coordinate and develop effective cross-border trade policies that address...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 198039Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
Rapidly growing midsize companies are an essential segment of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and are critical providers of employment, innovation, goods, and services in developed and emerging markets....
Type: ReportReport#: 198034Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
Despite the drought causing a modest deceleration of overall GDP growth to 3.2 percent, the Moroccan economy has exhibited some encouraging trends in 2024. Non-agricultural
growth has accelerated to...
Type: ReportReport#: 198037Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
Despite the drought causing a modest deceleration of overall GDP growth to 3.2 percent, the Moroccan economy has exhibited some encouraging trends in 2024. Non-agricultural
growth has accelerated to...
Type: ReportReport#: 198037Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report aims to help policymakers identify key growth opportunities and offers recommendations for building the capabilities needed to realize them. Chapter 1 analyzes growth trends across three key...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 198036Date: March 21, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report presents the tracking results from the refugee and host integration through the safety net (RHISN) midline household survey, conducted as part of the RHISN Phase II Program in Ethiopia. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 200187Date: March 21, 2025Author:
Dennis Timo Egger ;
Sandra Rozo ;
Bohm, Alfredo M. ;
Belay Mohammed Yimer ;
Maria Valentina Daza Pardo ;
Housa, Thierry
The Supporting Effective Jobs Lending at Scale (SEJLS) program was piloted between 2020 and 2023 under the Jobs Umbrella Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF). The program was designed to leverage large scale...
Type: ReportReport#: 198026Date: March 20, 2025Author:
World Bank
Can the provision of public goods strengthen the fiscal capacity of governments in developing
countries and move them toward an equilibrium of widespread tax compliance? We present
evidence of the impact...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 198025Date: March 20, 2025Author:
Anne Brockmeyer ;
Francisco Garfias ;
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
The development objective of the Improving Health Care in El Salvador Project for El Salvador is to: (a) improve access to quality healthcare services within a health system based on primary health care;...
Type: Board ReportReport#: PADHI00688Date: March 19, 2025Author:
World Bank
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