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  Book

  At Your Service? : The Promise of Services-Led Development

   

  Nayyar, Gaurav; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Davies, Elwyn

  Throughout history, industrialization has been synonymous with development. However, the trend of premature deindustrialization and the spread of automation technologies associated with Industry 4.0 has raised concerns that the development model based on export-led manufacturing seen in East Asia will be harder for hit ...

  Throughout history, industrialization has been synonymous with development. However, the trend of premature deindustrialization and the spread of automation technologies associated with Industry 4.0 h ...

  Throughout history, industrialization has been synonymous with development. However, the trend of premature deindustrialization and the spread of automation technologies associated with Industry 4.0 has raised concerns that the development model based on export-led manufacturing seen in East Asia will be harder for hitherto less industrialized countries to replicate in the future. Can services-led developme ...

  Sep 15, 2021
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  Book

  GovTech Maturity Index : The State of Public Sector Digital Transformation

   

  Dener, Cem; Nii-Aponsah, Hubert; Ghunney, Love E.; Johns, Kimberly D.

  Governments have been using technology to modernize the public sector for decades. The World Bank Group (WBG) has been a partner in this process, providing both financing and technical assistance to facilitate countries’ digital transformation journeys since the 1980s. The WBG launched the GovTech Initiative in 201 ...

  Governments have been using technology to modernize the public sector for decades. The World Bank Group (WBG) has been a partner in this process, providing both financing and technical assistance to ...

  Governments have been using technology to modernize the public sector for decades. The World Bank Group (WBG) has been a partner in this process, providing both financing and technical assistance to facilitate countries’ digital transformation journeys since the 1980s. The WBG launched the GovTech Initiative in 2019 to support the latest generation of these reforms. Over the past five years, developing ...

  Sep 15, 2021
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  Book

  The Converging Technology Revolution and Human Capital : Potential and Implications for South Asia

   

  Bashir, Sajitha; Dahlman, Carl J.; Kanehira, Naoto; Tilmes, Klaus

  South Asia is heavily impacted by the devastating loss of lives and human capital from the COVID-19 pandemic and the converging technology revolution sweeping the globe. The Converging Technology Revolution and Human Capital: Potential and Implications for South Asia looks at how the region could capitalize on these te ...

  South Asia is heavily impacted by the devastating loss of lives and human capital from the COVID-19 pandemic and the converging technology revolution sweeping the globe. The Converging Technology Revo ...

  South Asia is heavily impacted by the devastating loss of lives and human capital from the COVID-19 pandemic and the converging technology revolution sweeping the globe. The Converging Technology Revolution and Human Capital: Potential and Implications for South Asia looks at how the region could capitalize on these technologies to accelerate its development of human capital and promote adaptability and res ...

  Sep 08, 2021
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  Book

  The Quality of Health and Education Systems Across Africa : Evidence from a Decade of Service Delivery Indicators Surveys

   

  Gatti, Roberta; Andrews, Kathryn; Avitabile, Ciro; Conner, Ruben; Sharma, Jigyasa; Yi Chang, Andres

  CONFERENCE EDITION FOR PUBLICATION EXPECTED OCTOBER 2021. The World Bank's Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) surveys aim to measure the quality of services when the service meets the citizens: in schools and health facilities. Have teachers mastered the subject matter they are teaching, and can doctors accurately diagn ...

  CONFERENCE EDITION FOR PUBLICATION EXPECTED OCTOBER 2021. The World Bank's Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) surveys aim to measure the quality of services when the service meets the citizens: in scho ...

  CONFERENCE EDITION FOR PUBLICATION EXPECTED OCTOBER 2021. The World Bank's Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) surveys aim to measure the quality of services when the service meets the citizens: in schools and health facilities. Have teachers mastered the subject matter they are teaching, and can doctors accurately diagnose and treat key health conditions? Are schools and health facilities stocked with the ne ...

  Sep 07, 2021

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  Working Paper

  Measuring Untapped Revenue Potential in Developing Countries : Cross-Country Frontier and Panel Data Analysis

   

  Bogetic, Zeljko; Naeher, Dominik; Narayanan, Raghavan

  Efforts aimed at supporting domestic revenue mobilization in developing countries are often designed and evaluated based on empirical indicators, such as revenue-to-GDP ratios, which capture differences in achieved outcomes across countries. This paper studies a ...

  Efforts aimed at supporting domestic revenue mobilization in developing countries are often designed and evaluated based on empirical indicators, such as revenue ...

  Efforts aimed at supporting domestic revenue mobilization in developing countries are often designed and evaluated based on empirical indicators, such as revenue-to-GDP ratios, which capture differences in achieved outcomes across countries. This paper studies a complementary approach to estimate domestic revenue potential that al ...

  Sep, 2021
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  Working Paper

  Patterns of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade Shocks with Imperfect Capital Mobility

   

  Artuc, Erhan; Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido

  This paper explores how different investment frictions affect the patterns of responses of labor markets to tariff cuts. To investigate these patterns, this paper formulates a multi-sector dynamic model featuring capital and labor adjustment costs that is fitted to ...

  This paper explores how different investment frictions affect the patterns of responses of labor markets to tariff cuts. To investigate these patterns, this pape ...

  This paper explores how different investment frictions affect the patterns of responses of labor markets to tariff cuts. To investigate these patterns, this paper formulates a multi-sector dynamic model featuring capital and labor adjustment costs that is fitted to Argentine data. Counterfactual simulations of a tariff decline in ...

  Sep, 2021
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  Working Paper

  Floods and Their Impacts on Firms : Evidence from Tanzania

   

  Rentschler, Jun; Kim, Ella; Thies, Stephan; De Vries Robbe, Sophie; Erman, Alvina

  This study explores how businesses in Tanzania are impacted by floods, and which strategies they use to cope and adapt. These insights are based on firm survey data collected in 2018 using a tailored questionnaire, covering a sample of more than 800 firms. To ...

  This study explores how businesses in Tanzania are impacted by floods, and which strategies they use to cope and adapt. These insights are based on firm survey d ...

  This study explores how businesses in Tanzania are impacted by floods, and which strategies they use to cope and adapt. These insights are based on firm survey data collected in 2018 using a tailored questionnaire, covering a sample of more than 800 firms. To assess the impact of disasters on businesses, the study considers direct ...

  Sep, 2021

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  Groundswell Part 2 : Acting on Internal Climate Migration

   

  Clement, Viviane; Rigaud, Kanta Kumari; de Sherbinin, Alex; Jones, Bryan; Adamo, Susana; Schewe, Jacob; Sadiq, Nian; Shabahat, Elham

  This sequel to the Groundswell report includes projections and analysis of internal climate migration for three new regions: East Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Qualitative analyses of climate-related mobility in countries of the Mashreq and in Small Island Developing States (S ...

  This sequel to the Groundswell report includes projections and analysis of internal climate migration for three new regions: East Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asi ...

  This sequel to the Groundswell report includes projections and analysis of internal climate migration for three new regions: East Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Qualitative analyses of climate-related mobility in countries of the Mashreq and in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are also provided. This new report builds on the scenario-based modeling approach of ...

  Sep 13, 2021
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  Book

  Employment in Crisis : The Path to Better Jobs in a Post-COVID-19 Latin America

   

  Silva, Joana; Sousa, Liliana D.; Packard, Truman G.; Robertson, Raymond

  A region known for its volatility, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has suffered severe economic and social setbacks from crises—including the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises have taken their toll on careers, wage growth, and productivity. Employment in Crisis: The Path to Better Jobs in a Post-COVID-19 Latin ...

  A region known for its volatility, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has suffered severe economic and social setbacks from crises—including the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises have taken their t ...

  A region known for its volatility, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has suffered severe economic and social setbacks from crises—including the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises have taken their toll on careers, wage growth, and productivity. Employment in Crisis: The Path to Better Jobs in a Post-COVID-19 Latin America provides new evidence on the effects of crises on the region’s workers and firms ...

  Jun 17, 2021
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  Book

  Doing Business 2020 : Comparing Business Regulation in 190 Economies

   

  World Bank

  Doing Business 2020 is the 17th in a series of annual studies investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. It provides quantitative indicators covering 12 areas of the business environment in 190 economies. The goal of the Doing Business series is to provide objective data f ...

  Doing Business 2020 is the 17th in a series of annual studies investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. It provides quantitative indicators covering 12 ...

  Doing Business 2020 is the 17th in a series of annual studies investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. It provides quantitative indicators covering 12 areas of the business environment in 190 economies. The goal of the Doing Business series is to provide objective data for use by governments in designing sound business regulatory policies and to encourage res ...

  2020