الوثائق والتقارير

Jobs, Access to Credit, and Informality in MENA Countries (الإنجليزية)

This paper explores the link between jobs, access to Finance, and informality. Using longitudinal firm-level data for countries in the Middle East and North Africa, it documents that jobs creation is positively...

Libya : The Private Sector amid Conflict (الإنجليزية)

While the findings of this report refer to the pre-COVID-19 era, the ongoing COVID-19 crisis would further intensify Libya’s conflict-related crisis. COVID-19, in addition to creating a significant health...

Disclosable Restructuring Paper - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 (الإنجليزية)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 - Sequence No : 11 (الإنجليزية)

Helping Informal Firms in Egypt to Cope with COVID-19 Crisis (الإنجليزية)

A significant share of Egypt’s private sector is informal. The share of informal firms based on the CAPMAS Establishment Census (CEC) are the businesses that have a physical establishment. Across developing...

Addressing Informality in Egypt (الإنجليزية)

Informal jobs are often bad jobs, unproductive, poorly paid, risky, and unprotected. Informal firms perform poorly than their formal counterparts in terms of firm productivity, growth, and job creation...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 - Sequence No : 10 (الإنجليزية)

Country Private Sector Diagnostic : Creating Markets in Egypt - Realizing the Full Potential of a Productive Private Sector (Vol. 1 of 2) (العربية)

This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...

Country Private Sector Diagnostic : Creating Markets in Egypt - Realizing the Full Potential of a Productive Private Sector (Vol. 1 of 2) (الإنجليزية)

This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...

Country Private Sector Diagnostic : Creating Markets in Egypt - Realizing the Full Potential of a Productive Private Sector (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (العربية)

This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...

Country Private Sector Diagnostic : Creating Markets in Egypt - Realizing the Full Potential of a Productive Private Sector (Vol. 2 of 2) : Executive Summary (الإنجليزية)

This Country Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) analyzes some of the challenges Egypt continues to face, and highlights opportunities for private sector-led economic development, investment and job-creating...

The Private Sector amid Conflict : The Case of Libya (الإنجليزية)

Libya’s economic stability should be a priority for the international community. Although the private sector is an integral part of the Libyan economy, limited systematic information is available on how...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 - Sequence No : 09 (الإنجليزية)

Jedad : Promoting Market Opportunities for Refugee and Host Community Businesses in Jordan (الإنجليزية)

Jedad is a business-to-business networking initiative supported by the World Bank team that aims to boost access to market and sales opportunities for micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Jordan with...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Equal Access and Simplified Environment for Investment (EASE) in Egypt - P153487 - Sequence No : 08 (الإنجليزية)

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia provincial competitiveness study (الإنجليزية)

This report has prepared under the patronage of the Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah Governorate, this report presents the findings of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s first Provincial Competitiveness Study, which...

The jobs agenda for the Gulf cooperation council countries (الإنجليزية)

The economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) grew several folds over the past decades, making impressive improvements in key development indicators, supported by massive investments in extractive...

Small firms’ formalization : the stick treatment (الإنجليزية)

Firm informality is pervasive throughout the developing world, Bangladesh being no exception. The informal status of many firms substantially reduces the tax basis and therefore impacts the provision of...

Investment climate reforms and job creation in developing countries : what do we know and what should we do ? (الإنجليزية)

This paper reviews the literature on the role of the investment climate reforms in job creation. It finds that the current landscape of employment and private sector activity in developing countries indicates...

SME registration evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh (الإنجليزية)

Informality is pervasive in developing countries. In Bangladesh, the majority of firms are informal and as such they might not have access to prime markets, while lowering the tax base. The authors implemented...