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Strengthening Infrastructure Governance for Investment and Service Delivery in Panama

World Bank Group - 2020

Global evidence suggests better infrastructure governance results in more efficient spending and better growth outcomes …, 2015; World Bank 2014; OECD, 2013a) demonstrate that improvements in infrastructure governance can lead to substantial … efficiency enhancements and enhanced infrastructure productivity over the life of the asset. Conversely, poor governance is a …

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Making Infrastructure Work for Women and Men : A Review of World Bank Infrastructure Projects (1995-2009)

World Bank - 2010

This report provides a gender review of a decade and a half of World Bank infrastructure lending for 1,246 projects …. The objective of this review is to assess the status of and trends in gender integration in the World Bank infrastructure … 2006 gender action plan. The portfolio review reveals important progress on gender integration in infrastructure operations …

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Underutilized potential : the business costs of unreliable infrastructure in developing countries : Lifelines: the Resilient Infrastructure Opportunity : background paper

Rentschler, Jun; Kornejew, Martin; Hallegatte, Stéphane; … - 2019

This study constructs a microdata set of about 143,000 firms to estimate the monetary costs of infrastructure … substantial drag that unreliable infrastructure imposes on firms in developing countries. Yet, these figures are likely to be …

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Cost recovery and financial viability of the power sector in developing countries : insights from 15 case studies

Huenteler, Joern; Hankinson, Denzel; Rosenthal, Nicole; … - 2020

This paper analyzes power utilities in 15 jurisdictions to understand the determinants of success for reforms aimed at improving financial viability and cost recovery in the power sector and the impacts of these reforms on metrics of sector performance. The analysis finds that electricity...

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Covariate shocks and child undernutrition : a review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Debebe, Zelalem Yilma; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2020

Unexpected adverse events that affect areas or populations widely (covariate shocks) can have major consequences for the welfare of a society. Although the negative effects on households, especially among the poor, are well established in the economics literature, fewer studies have focused on...

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Attracting private solutions and participation in the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa : findings from a survey of investors and financiers

Probst, Benedict; Holcroft, Richard; Huenteler, Joern; … - 2020

This paper develops a classification of investor risks and surveys 51 private investors and financiers in the power sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper aims for a better understanding of what can be done to attract private solutions to fill the investment gap. It finds that the average...

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Which Emerging Markets and Developing Economies Face Corporate Balance Sheet Vulnerabilities? : A Novel Monitoring Framework

Feyen, Erik - 2017

This paper introduces a novel corporate financial vulnerability index that tracks financial conditions of the non-financial corporate sector. Using the balance sheet information of 14,207 listed non-financial firms in 69 emerging markets and developing economies, the index shows that, at the...

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Financial Globalization : A Glass Half Empty?

Abraham, Facundo - 2017

Since the 1970s, the world has embarked on a new financial globalization era. Cross-country capital flows have significantly increased in developed and developing countries. However, the characteristics of financial globalization differ from what was originally expected. Various examples...

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Negative Interest Rate Policies : Sources and Implications

Arteta, Carlos Ó. - 2016

Against the background of continued growth disappointments, depressed inflation expectations, and declining real equilibrium interest rates, a number of central banks have implemented negative interest rate policies (NIRP) to provide additional monetary policy stimulus over the past few years....

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The rail freight challenge for emerging economies : how to regain modal share

Aritua, Bernard - 2019

This report captures ways in which policy makers and senior officials in railway organizations from emerging economies can accelerate modal shift to rail. Such officials, as well as the general public, aspire for more freight to be moved by rail. The environmental and societal benefits of such a...

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