Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 751
Cover Image
Business environment and dual-track private sector development : China’s experience in two crucial decades
Long, Xiaoning; Xu, Lixin Colin; Yang, Jin - 2020
's World Trade Organization entry. The paper offers suggestive evidence that this dual track development had negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229761
Cover Image
The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2015
2015 - Online-Ausg.
availability of cross-country data on the business environment has rapidly expanded in recent years, including data from the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245132
Cover Image
The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2016
2016 - Online-Ausg.
availability of cross-country data on the business environment has rapidly expanded in recent years, including data from the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245253
Cover Image
Private Providers of Climate Change Services : The Role and Scope for the Private Sector in the Provision of Non-Financial Climate Change-Related Services Relevant to Water Infrast...
Winpenny, J.T. - 2010
Man-made climate change is affecting water infrastructure in all regions of the world, affecting large numbers of … people in their daily life and the development of their societies. As part of the World Bank Water Anchor's analytical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247173
Cover Image
Climate Finance : Engaging the Private Sector
Patel, Shilpa - 2010
This paper is focused on climate-related investment in developing countries. It provides the reader with an overview of climate-related activities, clarifies the terminology and discusses the sources of finance and public support. Section 1 gives an overview of current investment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247209
Cover Image
Recent trends in bank privatization
Bertay, Ata Can; Calice, Pietro; Diaz Kalan, Federico … - 2020
This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries, it shows that bank privatization became more frequent since the Global Financial Crisis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257325
Cover Image
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 … the world's economies. The report provides ICP results for the benchmark year 2017 and revised results for earlier years …-operation and Development, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Notably, PPPs and ICP data are used in indicators monitoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644294
Cover Image
Benchmarking Public Procurement 2017 : Assessing Public Procurement Regulatory Systems in 180 Economies
World Bank Group - 2016
statistics on the size of public procurement in economies around the world. While data are publicly available for High …-income economies, for the rest of the world, data and studies are scarce. However, public procurement is as important in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646534
Cover Image
Jobs' amenability to working from home : evidence from skills surveys for 53 countries
Hatayama, Maho; Viollaz, Mariana; Winkler, Hernan - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241132
Cover Image
Determinants of social distancing and economic activity during COVID-19 : a global view
Maloney, William F.; Taskin, Temel - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241139