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Tools for Digitizing Government Payments : Learnings from Financial Inclusion Support Framework

World Bank Group - 2021

This note documents the experience of several countries that leveraged these tools under the Financial Inclusion Support Framework (FISF) program. FISF is a World Bank Group initiative that aims to accelerate and increase the effectiveness of reforms and other country-led actions to achieve...

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Financial Risk and Opportunities to Build Resilience in Europe

World Bank Group - 2021

This report presents an analysis conducted by the World Bank to assess macro-fiscal impacts of earthquakes and floods in European Union (EU) Member States (MS), analyze the financial instruments in place to manage this risk and identify any associated funding gaps. The analysis is underpinned by...

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Greener Transport Connectivity for Eastern Partnership Countries

World Bank Group - 2020

making the EU's economy sustainable. The objective of this study is to assist decision-makers in prioritizing strategic …

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Managing the Fiscal Implications of Public-Private Partnerships in a Sustainable and Resilient Manner : A Compendium of Good Practices and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemi...

World Bank Group - 2023

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can sometimes be perceived as a means for delivering infrastructure for free. A more nuanced but still inexact view is that they are a mechanism to overcome fiscal constraints. Some argue, perhaps rightly, that often governments enter PPP contracts without...

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Guidelines for a Strategy for Ports and Inland Waterways

World Bank Group - 2022

Argentina has a fairly developed transport system, which in the case of cargo shows a performance in progressive decline, with remarkable differences between components, logistics chains, and regions. Water transport, a key sector for the country's connectivity with world markets, encounters...

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Air Transport : Annual Report 2021

World Bank Group - 2022

Air transport plays an important role in fostering development, particularly in facilitating economic integration, generating trade, promoting tourism, and creating employment opportunities. It facilitates integration into the global economy and provides vital connectivity on a national,...

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Measuring Rural Access : Update 2017/18

World Bank Group - 2019

Transport connectivity is an essential part of the enabling environment for inclusive and sustained growth. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, most people are still not connected to local, regional, or global markets. Such rural accessibility is crucial to reduce poverty and...

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Agricultural Financing in Haiti : Diagnosis and Recommendations

World Bank Group - 2019

This diagnosis is part of the World Bank's technical assistance to the Haitian authorities regarding financial inclusion and financial sector development. The industrial development fund (FDI), a public instrument under the umbrella of the Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH), maintains...

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Agriculture Finance Diagnostic : Zambia

World Bank Group - 2019

The agricultural sector plays a critical role in the Zambian economy. The share of the agriculture sector's GDP … financed by the banking sector is among the highest in Africa. Nearly half the population is working in agriculture. Yet less …, driven by the rapid growth in access to mobile money, present a key foundation on which to build. The Zambia Agriculture …

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Digitization of Agribusiness Payments in Africa : Building a Ramp for Farmers' Financial Inclusion and Participation in a Digital Economy

World Bank Group - 2020

This report aims to present the rationale for digitization of agribusiness payments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), assess the current status of digitization using demand and supply-side data, and identify key actions that can help accelerate digitization. The report draws on an analysis of...

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