Improving the investment climate is a key pillar of the World Bank's private sector development strategy. Without a … productivity and competitiveness. The Poland Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is the first ICA piloted in the World Bank …

employment and industry growth, and enable Egypt to establish itself as a hub for content and services for the Arab world …

competition while preparing Bulgarian companies to prosper within the largest economy in the world. Bulgaria has already made …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …. "--World Bank web site …

Biodiversity loss will be an increasingly important source of risk and opportunity for the insurance sector. The … will be a key aspect of meeting the targets set by the Paris Agreement. Insurance companies will be impacted by …. Insurance can promote investment in biodiversity in three ways: (i) asset protection, (ii) liability reduction, and (iii …

"The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated … economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper … Claessens and Laeven first estimate for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization …