الوثائق والتقارير
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Promoting E-commerce in Georgia : Exploring Constraints to Online Participation using Baseline Data from an Experimental Study (الإنجليزية)
E-commerce has the potential to expand market opportunities for businesses. However, it is not guaranteed. The World Development Report on Digital Dividends (World Bank 2016) highlights the importance...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 151178 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2022/11/16 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Apedo Amah,Marie Christine,Coville,Aidan,Piza,Caio,Raja,Siddhartha,Scarpari,Raquel
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Re-thinking the Approach to Informal Businesses : Typologies, Evidence and Future Exploration (الإنجليزية)
Interventions to incentivize business formalization over the past decades have shown mixed results (Bruhn and McKenzie, 2013; Bruhn and McKenzie, 2018; Floridi et al., 2019) and brought limited knowledge...
نوع الوثيقة: تقرير رقم التقرير: 154463 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/11/18 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Marusic,Andreja,Nielsen,William Iver,Ghossein,Tania,Solf,Sylvia
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Barriers to Competition in Product Market Regulation : New Insights on Emerging Market and Developing Economies (الإنجليزية)
Reforms to foster competition in product markets have been shown to improve productivity and support economic growth in advanced economies (AEs). However, relatively little is known about restrictions...
نوع الوثيقة: تقرير رقم التقرير: 152883 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/10/08 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Dauda,Seidu,Drozd,Maciej Adam
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Policy Options to Mitigate Political Risk and Attract FDI (الإنجليزية)
Political risks covers a wide range of issues, and this note focuses on a subset of political risk: the risks that arise from government actions, whether political or regulatory, that can affect the profitability...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 151742 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/08/12 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Kher,Priyanka,Chun,Dongwook
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Less Burden, More Transparency, and Higher Quality : Electronic System for Business Safety Inspections in Peru (الإنجليزية)
Business safety inspections are commonly cited as one of the most important bureaucratic barriers to doing business around the developing world (World Bank 2019, 2020). In Peru, the business safety inspection...
نوع الوثيقة: تقرير رقم التقرير: 151049 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/07/21 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Barron Ayllon,Manuel Fernando,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Garcia Montufar Garcia,Diego,Goicoechea,Ana
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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment Outcomes in Developing Countries : A Literature Review of the Effects of FDI on Job Creation and Wages (الإنجليزية)
This survey of literature explores the heterogeneous effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on employment outcomes in three types of domestic firms: foreign-owned local firms that are affiliates of...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 150072 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/06/26 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Saurav,Abhishek,Liu,Yan-000529044,Sinha,Aarushi
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Foreign Direct Investment, Backward Linkages, and Productivity Spillovers : What Governments Can Do to Strengthen Linkages and Their Impact (الإنجليزية)
This note provides an up-to-date summary of the academic evidence around the drivers and channels for technology transfer and productivity spillovers by multinational corporations (MNC) operating in host...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 148401 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/05/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Jordaan,Jacob Arie,Douw,Willem,Qiang,Zhenwei
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Investment Linkages and Incentives : Promoting Technology Transfer and Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) (الإنجليزية)
This note seeks to provide an overview of investment incentive policy as a tool for Governments seeking to promote technology transfer and productivity spillovers by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 148402 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/05/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Sabha,Yassin,Liu,Yan-000529044,Douw,Willem
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Strengthening Service Delivery of Investment Promotion Agencies : The Comprehensive Investor Services Framework (الإنجليزية)
Research shows that investment promotion agencies (IPAs) may be the best public institutions to meet government objectives for attracting, establishing, retaining, expanding, and linking productive private...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 146891 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/03/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Heilbron,Armando,Aranda Larrey,Yago
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Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Corporate Tax Incentives : Methodological Approaches and Policy Considerations (الإنجليزية)
Developing countries are increasingly offering tax breaks to attract investors and pursue various policy objectives such as encouraging investments in research and development (R and D) and increasing...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 146704 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Kronfol,Hania,Steenbergen,Victor
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Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity : A Literature Review on the Effects of FDI on Local Firm Productivity (الإنجليزية)
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the productivity of domestic firms is significant, but the economic gains from FDI are not guaranteed to be large or positive for individual firms. The...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 149549 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Saurav,Abhishek,Kuo,Ryan Chia
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How Countries can Fully Implement the New York Convention : A Critical Tool for Enforcement of International Arbitration Decisions (الإنجليزية)
The year 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, the most important international convention in the area of international...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 144707 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2019/12/30 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Forneris,Xavier,Mocheva,Nina Pavlova
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Tanzania and Implementation of East Africa Mutual Recognition of Veterinary Medicines (الإنجليزية)
Tanzania has the third largest livestock population in Africa (after Ethiopia and Sudan), but the competitiveness of Tanzania’s livestock sector faces many challenges, including lack of access to good-quality...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 135603 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2019/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Baregu,Solomon Simon,Wigenge,Raymond Nicholaus,Shrader,Hans,Thendiu,Isaac Njoro
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Albania : Trade Impact of CEFTA (الإنجليزية)
Regional free trade agreements (FTAs) have a sizable effect on exports and foster economic growth. While reducing tariffs in member countries, regional FTAs harmonize trade policy across regions and reduce...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 134055 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2018/12/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed
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Competitive Fruit and Vegetable Products in Albania (الإنجليزية)
Albania is heavily dependent on its agricultural sector, which accounts for 20.3 percent of GDP, 49 percent of employment and 8.5 percent of total exports. The fruit and vegetable sector represents 20...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 134056 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2018/12/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed
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Which Countries are Better Prepared to Compete Globally in the Disruptive Technology Age? (الإنجليزية)
This note provides a rapid, forward-looking analysis of countries’ share of the global private sector. By using technology-enabled Unicorns as a leading indicator of the future’s global private sector...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 131210 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2018/10/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Mulas,Victor
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Supporting Entrepreneurs at the Local Level : the Effect of Accelerators and Mentors on Early-Stage Firms (الإنجليزية)
We investigate the association between entrepreneurship support programs and the likelihood of receiving funding for early-stage firms. We use a novel database of 2,887 early-stage technology companies...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 129790 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2018/09/06 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Qian,Kathy Xin,Mulas,Victor,Lerner,Mattathias Aron
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Expanding access to finance for small-scale businesses secured transactions reform : an Indonesia case study (الإنجليزية)
A lack of access to finance has been one of the biggest impediments to the development and growth of the small-scale business sector in Indonesia. While micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 111735 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2017/01/05 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed
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Transforming health through e-payments in India (الإنجليزية)
The World Bank Group (WBG), in collaboration with the Government of Bihar, is implementing a government-to-person (G2P) health payments project with co-funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 119413 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2017/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Isern,Jennifer,Sharma,Anita Kumari,Marin Espinosa,Ana Georgina
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Fixed income instruments to mobilize institutional investors for SME financing in EMEs (الإنجليزية)
Emerging market economies (EMEs) face significant funding gaps in strategic sectors, such as infrastructure and small and medium enterprise (SME) financing, that if not addressed can stifle growth. In...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 119412 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2017/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Carvajal,Ana Fiorella,Loladze, Tamuna,Hammersley,James Walter,Anderson,Jeffrey David,Walley,Simon Christopher,Kemmish, Richard