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Impact Evaluation on Improving Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Demand in Malawi through the Use of Incentives
World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2017
This report presents an impact evaluation assessing the effect of incentives on improving the uptake of Voluntary … Commission of Malawi and implemented from December 2015 to April 2016. The primary research question was whether incentives can … increase VMMC uptake among in-school and out-of-school males aged 10-34. Collective incentives (e.g. whiteboards, football …
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Green Incentives for Climate Competitive Industries : A Practitioner's Handbook
World Bank Group - 2016
This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource … to be applicable to most, if not all, resource-efficiency issues and incentives. However, it has a particular focus on …) why incentives should be used; (ii) the kinds of incentives that are available; (iii) how incentives can be combined; (iv …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644367
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Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies : Results from the 2017 International Comparison Program
World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2020
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the …
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Benchmarking Public Procurement 2017 : Assessing Public Procurement Regulatory Systems in 180 Economies
World Bank Group - 2016
Despite the importance of the public procurement market, little effort has been made to systematically and consistently collect reliable statistics on a number of critical dimensions. To date, no attempt has been made to collect comparable statistics on the size of public procurement in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646534
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Small Claims : Where Does Serbia Stand? A Comparative Analysis
World Bank Group - 2020
Evidence suggests that poor court performance negatively affects the economy. Complaints about the business climate are often associated with complicated procedural laws and backlogs that beleaguer the system and slow it down. According to the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice...
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Indonesia Diagnostic Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy : Volume 2. Comparison with Good Practices
World Bank Group - 2014
This diagnostic study was undertaken by the World Bank in response to a request from Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK), the Indonesian Financial Services Authority, and Bank Indonesia, the nation's central bank. Indonesia's financial sector has a lot of growth potential considering the relatively low...
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Nepal Earthquake Post Disaster Needs Aassessment
World Bank Group - 2015
The post disaster needs assessment (PDNA) assesses the impact of the April 25, 2015 earthquake in Nepal and defines a recovery strategy. In the analysis, damage is defined as the cost to replace durable physical assets (buildings, equipment, facilities, and machinery) that were damaged or...
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Examining the Experts : A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Expert Witnesses in Court Systems of the Western Balkans
World Bank Group - 2019
This Report examines if and how expert witnesses impact the integrity, impartiality and efficiency of adjudication in four countries—Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The report is part of a broader World Bank initiative to raise awareness of reform...
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The Distributional Impact of COVID-19 Fiscal Policies on Households, with Emphasis on Da Nang City
World Bank Group - 2021
This note will examine the distributional and efficiency issues associated with the fiscal response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis in Da Nang city and nationally in Vietnam. More specifically, we look at the social assistance (cash transfer) programs. Did these programs efficiently reach...
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The Impact of COVID-19 Crisis on Subnational Public Finance : The Case of Danang City
World Bank Group - 2021
The national economy of Vietnam was affected by the April 2020 lockdown meant to contain the domestic spread of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) virus and subsequent outbreaks in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City. Nevertheless, the economy showed exceptional resilience. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by...
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