This edition of the MDTF Annual Report provides a comprehensive look at the progress and achievements of the fund under the three windows on (a) jobs lending at scale; (b) measurement agenda; and (c) influence...
In 2020, Jobs Group extended the Jobs Multi-donor Trust Fund (MDTF) to Phase Two with support from the donors and the Jobs Steering Committee (JSC). In this phase, Jobs MDTF retains its original objectives...
The Multidonor Trust Fund (MDTF) began operations in March 2015 and brought together all WBG trust-funded activities on the Jobs agenda under a single umbrella. Since the inception of the Jobs MDTF, its...
The Jobs Umbrella Multidonor Trust Fund (MDTF) is a financing instrument that supports the World Bank Group`s (WBG) jobs strategy to contribute to the twin goals of reducing poverty and ensuring inclusive...
Turkey’s pace of income convergence has globally been one of the most remarkable of the past fifteen years. Sustaining growth and improvements in living standards in Turkey will require higher productivity...
Despite the commitments of the development community toward broader access to finance, financial inclusion rates worldwide are rather unsatisfactory. To date, around two billion adults do not have access...
The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for...
Developing countries across East Asia have made impressive progress in economic development. Despite the effect of the 1997-1998 financial crisis, poverty rates in the region have been consistently declining...
In developing countries, structural transformation started much later, mostly in the 1900s. The structural transformation of the agricultural sector has been characterized by the relative decline of basic...
Over the past decade, there has been increased interest in improving business regulations, in part because of the increased availability of data that can inform and monitor those improvements. This paper...