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Doing Business Indicators and Country Reforms (Approach Paper)
Doing Business is recognized as highly influential in business regulatory reform worldwide, and it is the most used set of indicators on business regulation. Its indicators are widely used and analyzed in the academic…
Pakistan: First and Second Programmatic Fiscally Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Development Policy Credit (PPAR)
This Project Performance Assessment Report evaluates a programmatic series of two development policy operations for Pakistan. The series was the World Bank’s first policy-based operation in Pakistan in more than a…
World Bank Group Support to International Development Association Countries for Integration into Global Value Chains (Approach Paper)
The rise of global value chains (GVCs) in the past two decades has dramatically altered the world economy. Lower transport and communication costs and falling barriers to trade have allowed firms to organize production…
China CLR Review FY13-17
China, with a population of 1.4 billion, is an upper middle-income country with a GNI per capita of $8,690 in 2017. During 2013-2017, the economy grew annually at 7.1 percent on average, slower than the previous CPS…
Guatemala - Enhanced Fiscal and Financial Management for Greater Opportunities DPL Series
This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) evaluates a series of two development policy loans (DPLs) to Guatemala: Fiscal Space for Greater Opportunities ($200 million, P131763), and Enhanced Fiscal and Financial…
Jamaica - Economic Stabilization and Foundations for GrowthDevelopment Policy Loan (DPL)
This Project Performance Assessment Report (PPAR) reviews the Economic Stabilization and Foundations for Growth Development Policy Loan (DPL), approved on December 12, 2013.
The objectives of the operation were to…
Creating Markets: Drivers of Success
Join us for a conversation on the factors underlying the success of market creation activities as the IFC implements its new corporate strategy, and the contributing roles of the World Bank and MIGA to that strategy.
Contribution and Effectiveness of Trade Facilitation Measures: Structured Literature Review
This literature review has two main objectives. The first is to survey the findings on effectiveness of trade facilitation measures on outcomes such as trade flows, and trade costs. The second objective is to gain a…
Creating Markets to Leverage the Private Sector for Sustainable Development and Growth
With a strong learning focus, this evaluation is intended to inform the implementation of IFC’s corporate strategy (IFC 3.0) and the contributing roles of the World Bank and MIGA to that strategy
Why systematic engagement is essential to promoting trade and growth: Lessons from World Bank Group experience
Findings from IEG's recent evaluation, which examined whether efforts to reduce trade costs for World Bank client countries improved their trade competitiveness.