الوثائق والتقارير
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Another attempt to reform Brazil's intergovernmental financing arrangements : preliminary results and future prospects (الإنجليزية)
Since the mid-1990s, Brazil has struggled, with limited success, to reform its intergovernmental financing arrangements. Every four years, the electoral cycle brings promises of much needed reforms. Recently...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 88640 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Araujo,Jorge A. De Thompson R.,Barroso,Rafael Chelles
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Long-term finance in EMEs : navigating between risks and policy choices (الإنجليزية)
Emerging market economies (EMEs) are making important strides in developing long-term finance capital market vehicles to support investment in strategic areas such as infrastructure. However, since last...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 89224 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Canuto,Otaviano,Silva,Anderson Caputo,Garcia-Kilroy,Catalina
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The commodity super cycle : is this time different? (الإنجليزية)
Some analysts believe that the commodity price boom of the new millennium has played itself out. However, natural resource based commodity prices (with the exception of shale gas and its downward pressure...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 88949 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Canuto,Otaviano
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A framework to assess the fiscal risks of public bodies : Jamaica (الإنجليزية)
This note outlines a framework for assessing the extent of fiscal risks inherent in the operations of public bodies (PBs), highlighting eight applications in Jamaica. Scenario analysis and stress testing...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 88612 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Cazorla,Marta Riveira,Longmore,Rohan,Verhoeven,Marinus
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Information for export survival : an analysis of Georgian export performance and survival in international markets (الإنجليزية)
Successful entry into export markets and the subsequent survival of export flows are crucial if a country is to grow and diversify its export base. The accumulated experience of firms that export a particular...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 88992 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Mckenna,Jonathan Miles,Reyes,Jose Daniel,Varela,Gonzalo J.
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Sharing prosperity by closing South Asia's infrastructure gap (الإنجليزية)
While South Asia's average gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the past decade was only slightly lower than in East Asia and the Pacific, the region significantly lags behind in terms of infrastructure...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 88928 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Andres,Luis Alberto,Basnyat,Ashma,Biller,S. A. Dan,Herrera Dappe,Matias
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Public research organizations and agricultural development in Brazil : how did Embrapa get it right? (الإنجليزية)
One of the most extraordinary events in Brazil in the past 30 years has been the country's agricultural revolution. In the 1970s, food scarcity was a concrete risk in a country experiencing rapid urbanization...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 88490 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Correa,Paulo Guilherme,Alkmin Junqueira Schmidt,Cristiane
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Three perspectives on Brazilian growth pessimism (الإنجليزية)
Over the last few years, Brazil's growth has significantly decelerated. Accompanying this slowdown, a change in commentary on Brazil's economic future has emerged, and is reflected in a recent ratings...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 88848 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Canuto,Otaviano,Schellekens,Philip
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Is aging bad for the economy? Maybe (الإنجليزية)
The world's aging population is expected to shape the future of economies across the globe. Without behavioral adaptation by current and future generations, this demographic transformation is likely to...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 88221 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/05/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Onder,Harun,Pestieau,Pierre
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Future without oil? : diversifying options for Trinidad and Tobago (الإنجليزية)
Trinidad and Tobago (T and T) is an example of successful diversification within the oil and gas sector and the country is now a global player in the energy industry. Diversifying its asset base so that...
رقم التقرير: 87852 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/05/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Carneiro,Francisco Galrao,Cazorla,Marta Riveira,Jaupart,Pascal Jean Edouard,Longmore,Rohan
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Making global value chains work for development (الإنجليزية)
Global value chains (GVCs) are playing an increasingly important role in business strategies, which has profoundly changed international trade and development paradigms. GVCs now represent a new path for...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 88053 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/05/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Taglioni,Daria,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
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Sluggish post crisis growth : policies, secular stagnation, and outlook (الإنجليزية)
In the aftermath of the recent global financial crisis, advanced economies have continued to experience sluggish growth. Is this slow post crisis growth the result of a policy response that was overly...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 86483 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/04/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Canuto,Otaviano,Griffith,Breda,Nallari,Yugandhar Raj
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Urbanization, gender, and business creation in the informal sector in India (الإنجليزية)
This economic premise examines the intersection of four important development themes: urbanization, agglomeration, gender, and informality. Although urbanization has continued at a rapid pace, formalization...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 87096 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/04/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kanbur,Ravi,O'Connell Stephen D.
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Access to finance, product innovation, and middle-income growth traps (الإنجليزية)
After experiencing an initial period of rapid growth, many developing countries have fallen into the middle-income 'trap', stuck between low-wage, low-technology markets and high-income, innovation-based...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 86114 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/03/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Agenor,Pierre-Richard,Canuto,Otaviano,Jelenic,Michael Christopher
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Why is reducing energy subsidies a prudent, fair, and transformative policy for Indonesia? (الإنجليزية)
If there was one bold and timely policy to transform Indonesia, this is it. In 2012, spending on energy subsidies claimed more than one-fifth of the central government's budget, that is, more than three...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 86815 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/03/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Diop,Ndiame
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Nothing to fear but fear itself : evidence on imported intermediates in Indonesia (الإنجليزية)
The combination of an increasing trade imbalance, concerns about deindustrialization after several years of booming commodity prices, and rising imports of intermediate inputs and capital goods over the...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 85983 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/03/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Rahardja,Sjamsu,Varela,Gonzalo J.
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Global value chains in the current trade slowdown (الإنجليزية)
Real growth in global trade has decelerated significantly since its sharp recovery in 2010. Year-on-year growth in global real trade1 decelerated from 13.3 percent at the end of the first quarter of 2010...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 86232 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/03/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Ferrantino,Michael Joseph,Taglioni,Daria
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Does FDI work for Africa? Assessing local spillovers in a world of global value chains (الإنجليزية)
The extent to which developing countries benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI) depends on whether they are able to realize the productivity-enhancing benefits of knowledge and technology spillovers...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 84951 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/02/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Farole,Thomas,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
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Reforming subsidies in Morocco (الإنجليزية)
The cost of the subsidy system in Morocco peaked at 6.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, an amount larger than the country's total investment budget for that year. Direct subsidies to households...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 84516 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/02/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Araar,Abdelkrim,El Massnaoui,Khalid,Verme,Paolo
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What makes cities more competitive? Lessons from India (الإنجليزية)
Policy makers in both developed and developing countries want to accelerate spatial development, make cities more competitive, attract new entrepreneurs, boost economic growth, and promote job creation...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 83905 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2014/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Ghani,Syed Ejaz,Kerr,William Robert,O'Connell, Stephen D.