Agricultural firms in developing countries may decide to implement aggregation schemes, typically through contract farming arrangements (CFAs). The firms’ rationale for engaging in aggregation is likely...
Together with private sector investors, International Finance Corporation (IFC) has been leading a global effort to develop new guidelines for responsible investing in digital finance. These guidelines...
Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender...
The Art Program’s Capacity Project exhibit on the World Bank Lending in the Health Sector was created in collaboration with the World Bank’s Information Solution Group’s Library and Archives of Development...
This study focuses on the link between teachers' 'time-on-task' (TOT) and the nature of tasks in classrooms. This study, carried out with concurrence from Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)...
In Armenia, more effective accumulation, together with greater competition and better connectivity with the rest of the world, will increase pressures on firms to compete and innovate and will thus reinvigorate...
In Armenia, more effective accumulation, together with greater competition and better connectivity with the rest of the world, will increase pressures on firms to compete and innovate and will thus reinvigorate...
Innovation is often touted as a key component in unleashing private sector growth and the dynamism necessary for solving the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's employment challenges. The region's...
In the developing world, poor rural women and their children spend considerable time collecting water. Do women living in areas where more time is needed for water collection tend to participate less in...
Andhra Pradesh, the fifth most populous state in India, is home to five of its largest for-profit nonbank finance companies, all of which began in the 1990s as microfinance institutions (NBFC MFIs). The...
Andhra Pradesh, the fifth most populous state in India, is home to five of its largest for-profit nonbank finance companies, all of which began in the 1990s as microfinance institutions (NBFC MFIs). The...
Andhra Pradesh, the fifth most populous state in India, is home to five of its largest for-profit nonbank finance companies, all of which began in the 1990s as microfinance institutions (NBFC MFIs). The...
This paper attempts to use network theory, drawn from recent work in sociology, engineering, and biological systems, to suggest that the current crisis should be viewed as a network crisis. The author...
In this paper, the authors discuss the ways in which national governments, firms, and individuals respond to policy related to food safety, environmental protection, and trade. These responses must be...
The regional study, "drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America," carried out by the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department of the Latin America...
The regional study, "drivers of sustainable rural growth and poverty reduction in Central America," carried out by the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Department of the Latin America...
This report compiles the minutes of the High-Level Power Experts Meeting (Part I) and the First Meeting of the Nile Basin Ministers Responsible for Electricity (Part II) organized under the leadership...
This report compiles the minutes of the High-Level Power Experts Meeting (Part I) and the First Meeting of the Nile Basin Ministers Responsible for Electricity (Part II) organized under the leadership...
Microfinance institutions of four types have emerged to meet the unfulfilled financing needs of micro-entrepreneurs: commercial banks, specialized NGO-type microfinance institutions, membership-based institutions...
This note evaluates Senegal's trade regime in 2001 and UEMOA's common external trade policies, using the methodology developed in Hinkle et al (2003). We find that the trade regime was reasonably open...