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Listing State-Owned Enterprises in Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Success and Failure

World Bank Group - 2021

In this report, the authors investigate state-owned enterprise (SOE) listings as a solution to promote local capital markets development. Thus, SOE listings can offer governments an enormous opportunity to kick-start the development of their local capital markets while achieving other divestment...

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Promoting Innovation in China : Lessons from International Good Practice

World Bank Group - 2020

China considers innovation be one of the key drivers of its future growth and convergence with more developed countries … technological catch- up, China must revise its approach to innovation policy. This paper takes stock of China's progress in building … recommendations to help China sustain its drive to become one of the global innovation champions …

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Poland Catching-Up Regions : Strengthening the Implementation of Work-Based Learning

World Bank Group - 2017

Worldwide, Vocational Education and Training (VET) is receiving increasing attention, particularly as a potentially useful instrument to address high unemployment rates among youth. In 2016, the World Bank started providing technical assistance to the self government of Poland's Swietokrzyskie...

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Remote Learning and COVID-19

World Bank Group - 2020

Little research attention has been paid to documenting and analyzing attempts of education systems moving quickly and at scale to provide online learning when all or many schools are closed. Related 'good practices' are considered rare, and on the whole, activities and initiatives of these sorts...

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Key Factors for Successful Development of Offshore Wind in Emerging Markets

World Bank Group - 2021

Offshore wind holds tremendous promise for many emerging markets as a large-scale, clean, reliable form of new electricity generation with the potential to stimulate valuable economic benefits. However, developing a new offshore wind sector in an emerging market is no easy task. Decision makers...

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What Does Digital Money Mean for Emerging Market and Developing Economies? : Fintech and the Future of Finance Flagship Technical Note

World Bank Group - 2022

Physical cash and commercial bank money are dominant vehicles for retail payments around the world, including in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Yet payments in EMDEs are marked by several key deficiencies, such as lack of universal access to transaction accounts, widespread...

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Getting Down to Earth : Are Satellites Reliable for Measuring Air Pollutants That Cause Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

World Bank Group - 2022

Outdoor air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide, the majority of which are caused by exposure to fine particulate matter (or PM2.5) air pollution. Most of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Reducing PM2.5 air pollution is thus crucial for...

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Environmental Flows for Hydropower Projects : Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets

World Bank Group - 2018

This Good Practice Handbook is designed to provide guidance to practitioners on taking rigorous and consistent approaches to assess hydropower project impacts on downstream river ecosystems and people, and determine their Environmental Flows (EFlows) commitments. The Handbook outlines a good...

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Promoting the Use of Capital Markets for Infrastructure Financing : Lessons for Securities Markets Regulators in Emerging Market Economies

World Bank Group - 2017

This Note provides guidance to securities markets regulators in emerging market economies (EMEs) about key regulatory issues that could affect the issuance of debt instruments for infrastructure financing over which they have some control. The Note focuses on three areas (placement regime,...

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Promoting Competition in the Distribution of Mutual Funds : Lessons for Securities Markets Regulatory Authorities in Emerging Market Economies

World Bank Group - 2017

This Policy Note focuses on distribution channels, the role they play in product diversification and costs, and how regulation can promote competition in mutual funds (MFs) distribution. In many emerging market economics (EMEs) where both the capital markets and the MFs have reached certain...

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