• International Finance Corporation’s policy on environmental and social sustainability
    International Finance Corporation (IFC) strives for positive development outcomes in the activities it supports in developing countries. These activities include: (i) investments financed directly by ...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 110832 التاريخ : January 1, 2012
  • Overview of performance standards on environmental and social sustainability : performance standard 7 - indigenous peoples
    International Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) sustainability framework articulates the Corporation’s strategic commitment to sustainable development, and is an integral part of IFC’s approach to risk ma...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 113847 التاريخ : January 1, 2012
  • The art of knowledge exchange : a results-focused planning guide for development practitioners
    Knowledge exchange, or peer-to-peer learning, is a powerful way to share, replicate, and scale up what works in development. Development practitioners want to learn from the practical experience of ot...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 74263 التاريخ : January 1, 2012 المؤلف: Kumar,Shobha ; Leonard,Aaron
  • Doing business 2012 : doing business in a more transparent world - summary report
    Doing Business 2012 is the ninth in a series of annual reports published by IFC and the World Bank. The report assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 183 economies and ranks the economies in...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 73226 التاريخ : January 1, 2012
  • The grain chain : food security and managing wheat imports in Arab countries
    Arab countries face a number of food security risks due to their high dependence on wheat imports. This study explores ways in which countries can mitigate these risks. The authors evaluate the wheat ...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 68075 التاريخ : January 1, 2012 المؤلف: Battat,Michelle L. ; Erekat,Dana Mohamed ; Lampietti,Julian A. ; De Hartog,Arnold H. ; Michaels,Sean David
  • Indigenous peoples : guidance note 7 : Guidance note 7
    Guidance Note 7 corresponds to Performance Standard 7. Performance Standard 7 recognizes that Indigenous Peoples, as social groups with identities that are distinct from mainstream groups in national ...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 113836 التاريخ : January 1, 2012
  • Jordan - Country partnership strategy for the period FY11-FY15
    Jordan is sensitive to the economic and political volatility of the region. The political upheaval that swept the Arab region this year has had a significant impact on Jordan, taking the form of econo...
    النوع : Country Assistance Strategy Document تقرير #: 58114 التاريخ : December 23, 2011
  • Sudan - Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) : case study of the health sector
    The Sudan referendum on post-Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) arrangements was held during January 9-15, 2011 with results in favor of secession of the South by July 9, 2011. The economic effects w...
    النوع : Public Expenditure Review تقرير #: 67712 التاريخ : December 1, 2011
  • Incorporating consumer research into consumer protection policy making
    This focus note describes Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP's) experience to date gathering qualitative and quantitative information directly from low-income consumers to inform financial...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 68067 التاريخ : November 1, 2011 المؤلف: Collins,Daryl ; Jentzsch,Nicola ; Mazer,Rafael Keenan
  • Sudan - Rapid assessment of the public investment portfolio in the fiscal adjustment context
    Public investment to facilitate growth and poverty reduction is paramount to Sudan's development challenge. The acute need for rebuilding the country's deteriorated infrastructure and service delivery...
    النوع : Public Investment Review تقرير #: 72925 التاريخ : October 1, 2011
  • Investing for growth and jobs (Vol. 1 of 2) : Executive summary
    This edtion of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economic developments and prospects reports focuses foresees an improvement compared to its last forecast in May 2011. The report predicts an ave...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 72677 التاريخ : September 1, 2011
  • Food price watch
    Global prices of food in July 2011 remain significantly higher than their levels in July 2010 and close to the 2008 peak levels, with the World Bank food price index increasing by 33 percent in the la...
    النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 63868 التاريخ : August 1, 2011
  • World development report 2011 : conflict, security, and development
    The 2011 World Development Report looks across disciplines and experiences drawn from around the world to offer some ideas and practical recommendations on how to move beyond conflict and fragility an...
    النوع : World Development Report تقرير #: 58988 التاريخ : May 26, 2011 المؤلف: Alda Sanchez,Erik ; Andersson,David ; Anye,Kenneth N. ; Benner,Holly Welborn ; Cieslik,Natalia ; Cliffe,Sarah F. ; Crouzel,Ivan ; Kostner,Markus ; Maree,Daniel ; Marwell,Nicholas Evan ; Milante,Gary ; Myint,Nikolas ; Ndegwa,Stephen N. ; Peters,Roland K. ; Roberts,Nigel Charles ; Ross-Larson, Bruce [editor] ; Selim,Nadia ; Simonsen,Pia ; Van Praag,Mark Nicholas ; Weeraratne,Suranjan
  • Reaching the poorest : lessons from the graduation model
    Microfinance is about extending financial access to poor and excluded people. However, apart from a few notable exceptions, microfinance has not typically reached extremely poor people those at the lo...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 63336 التاريخ : March 1, 2011 المؤلف: Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin ; De Montesquiou Fezensac,Aude
  • Sustaining the recovery and looking beyond (Vol. 1 of 2) : Executive summary
    This edtion of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economic developments and prospects reports examines the major factors threatening the recovery and those that obstruct long-term growth, especia...
    النوع : Economic Updates and Modeling تقرير #: 59960 التاريخ : January 1, 2011 المؤلف: Ianchovichina,Elena
  • Middle East and North Africa - Public sector governance reform
    This result profile focus of enhancing the delivery of justice sector services to the poor and public sector governance reform project in the Middle East and North Africa. Heeding the lessons learned ...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 95854 التاريخ : November 12, 2010
  • Albania
    This result profile talks about the impressive growth of the country Albania. Albania has made important strides in re-integrating into the international and European communities, and has been an impo...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 95881 التاريخ : October 18, 2010
  • Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - Emerging stronger from conflict
    This Results Profile talks about Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia that strives for higher living standard and Europe Union accession. FYR Macedonia is a lower middle-income country, whose landloc...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 95977 التاريخ : October 15, 2010
  • Turkey - World Bank partnership
    Turkey has eliminated extreme poverty. It has already achieved Millennium Development Goal('Improve Maternal Health') and is well on its way to reaching other Millennium DevelopmentGoals by 2015. Turk...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 95879 التاريخ : October 14, 2010
  • Creating stability and enhancing access : helping develop Egypt's financial sector
    For the past five years, the Government of Egypt and the World Bank have worked together on the most far-reaching, substantive, and comprehensive drive toward financial sector strengthening so far in ...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 91819 التاريخ : October 1, 2010