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Embedding Digital Finance in e-Commerce Platforms during the COVID-19 Pandemic : Early Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 on e-Commerce and the Provision of Digital Financial Ser...
World Bank Group - 2020
This study provides an early assessment of the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on e-commerce platforms and digital financial services, identifying the opportunities, good practices, and key challenges that have emerged in different regions. The focus of the study is to evaluate the impact of...
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Rapid Review of Water Knowledge for Pacific Small Islands Developing States
World Bank Group - 2018
The rapid review confirms that Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are socially, culturally, and environmentally diverse, with some features in common, and which collectively make them unique to other regions of the world: Small island countries have uniquely fragile water resources...
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Capital Markets and SMEs in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies : Can They Go the Distance?
World Bank Group - 2020
that started in 2007, there has been an active debate about the role that capital markets can play in SME financing. This … report seeks to enhance practitioners' understanding of the potential role that capital markets can have in SME financing in …-based solutions to expand SME financing with a view to identifying key preconditions and challenges for EMDEs implementing the …
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Chad SME Competitiveness and Global Value Chain Upgrading Diagnostics with Focus on Opportunities in the Domestic and Regional Markets
World Bank Group - 2021
This study aims to explore ways in which key competencies of the oil and gas industry could be leveraged to support the diversification of the Chadian economy. The analysis focused on identifying opportunities and prioritizing core competencies in specific segments of the oil and gas value chain...
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Digitalizing SMEs to Boost Competitiveness
World Bank Group - 2022
enterprise (SME) digitalization has remained limited, suggesting a growing risk of digital divide in the country. This report …'s efforts to foster SME digitalization; and (iii) a digital market regulations assessment evaluating the adequacy of Malaysia …
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Prosperity for All Saotomeans : Priorities to End Poverty, Promote Growth, and Build Resilience in Sao Tome and Principe
World Bank Group - 2021
Sao Tome and Principe (STP), a small island nation of 215,000 people in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Central Africa, is in many ways a country of great untapped wealth. One of Africa's least known countries, its striking volcanic landscape is home to virgin rainforests with rich...
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Global Economic Prospects, June 2021
World Bank Group - 2021
The world economy is experiencing a very strong but uneven recovery, with many emerging market and developing economies facing obstacles to vaccination. The global outlook remains uncertain, with major risks around the path of the pandemic and the possibility of financial stress amid large debt...
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Global Economic Prospects, January 2020 : Slow Growth, Policy Challenges
World Bank Group - 2020
Global growth is projected to be slightly faster in 2020 than the post-crisis low registered last year. While growth could be stronger if reduced trade tensions lead to a sustained reduction in uncertainty, the balance of risks to the outlook is to the downside. Growth in emerging market and...
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Malaysia Economic Monitor, June 2017 : Data for Development
World Bank Group - 2017
Malaysia's economic growth expanded strongly in first quarter (1Q) 2017. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate for 2017 is expected to accelerate to 4.9 percent, slightly above the government's current projection range of 4.3 to 4.8 percent. The current account surplus has declined (1Q 2017:...
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Global Economic Prospects, June 2022
World Bank Group - 2022
The world economy continues to suffer from a series of destabilizing shocks. After more than two years of pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its global effects on commodity markets, supply chains, inflation, and financial conditions have steepened the slowdown in global growth. In...
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