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
Omicron cases surged as Thailand neared
its end-2021 mass vaccination target of seventy percent. The
government tightened international travel restrictions but
refrained...
Type: BriefReport#: 168040Date: January 20, 2022Author:
Puthong,Warunthorn
This study develops a computable general
equilibrium model for Nigeria, which accounts for
informality, tax evasion, and fuel smuggling. By studying
the impact of fuel...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9907Date: January 20, 2022Author:
Maruyama Rentschler,Jun Erik ;
Hosoe,Nobuhiro
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
Moldova’s policy priorities and key
actions going forward: Strengthening the capacity and
governance of public administration; Strengthening the
judiciary and the fight...
Type: ReportReport#: 167897Date: January 12, 2022Author:
Curto,Stefano
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
Sustainability-linked finance is
designed to incentivize the borrower’s achievement of
environmental, social, or governance targets through pricing
incentives. Launched...
Type: BriefReport#: 168045Date: January 1, 2022Author:
De La Orden Lopez,Raquel ;
De Calonje,Ignacio
The global recovery is set to decelerate
amid diminished policy support, continued COVID-19
flare-ups, and lingering supply bottlenecks. In contrast to
that in advanced...
Type: PublicationReport#: 167864Date: January 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
This paper uses Qualitative Comparative
Analysis (QCA) to validate the theory of change developed
for an evaluation of renewable energy strategies,
identifying pathways...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 167126Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Rubinson,Claude James ;
Jayawardena,Migara ;
Watkins,Ryan ;
Butscher,Joy Kaarina ;
Berrah,Noureddine
This paper describes how a panel of
global experts on renewable energy (RE) was convened to
anticipate the major opportunities and challenges facing the
scale-up of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 167125Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Jayawardena,Migara ;
Heijndermans,Enno ;
West Meiers,Maurya ;
Watkins,Ryan ;
Butscher,Joy Kaarina ;
Feng,Shenghui ;
Berrah,Noureddine
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
This guidance note helps World Bank
teams answer 6 key questions to help prepare a
country’s blue public expenditure review (PER), a
valuable tool for countries...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 167143Date: December 20, 2021Author:
Pagiola,Stefano P. ;
Jorge,Miguel Angel ;
Castano Isaza,Juliana
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
Across the maritime industry, there is
general agreement that shipping must undergo a rapid energy
transition. This implies a shift from fossil bunker fuels,
such as...
Type: ReportReport#: 158013Date: December 15, 2021Author:
Englert,Dominik Paul ;
Losos,Andrew Michael ;
Raucci, Carlos ;
Fricaudet, Marie ;
Smith, Tristan
Does the internet enable the recruitment
of transnational terrorists? Using geo-referenced population
census data and personnel records from the Islamic State in
Iraq...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9885Date: December 15, 2021Author:
Do,Quy-Toan ;
Gomez Parra,Nicolas ;
Rijkers,Bob
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