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    Sustainability Assessment of Rural Water Service Delivery Models : Findings of a Multi-Country Review

     
    World Bank Group
    With 2.1 billion people – mostly in rural areas – lacking safely managed drinking water and reported low rural water supply functionality rates, the Sustainable Development Goals pose a triple challenge: to reach unserved mostly rural population groups, to raise ...
    With 2.1 billion people – mostly in rural areas – lacking safely managed drinking water and reported low rural water supply functionality rates, the Sustainable ...
    With 2.1 billion people – mostly in rural areas – lacking safely managed drinking water and reported low rural water supply functionality rates, the Sustainable Development Goals pose a triple challenge: to reach unserved mostly rural population groups, to raise service levels, and to sustain existing and future services. This ass ...
    Aug, 2017
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    Working Paper

    Structural Change in West Africa : A Tale of Gain and Loss

     
    Haile, Fiseha
    Economic growth in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Cote d'Ivoire occurred in tandem with a rapid exodus of labor out of agriculture. This paper investigates the contribution (or lack thereof) of within- and between-sector productivity changes to overall productivity ...
    Economic growth in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Cote d'Ivoire occurred in tandem with a rapid exodus of labor out of agriculture. This paper investigates the contrib ...
    Economic growth in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Cote d'Ivoire occurred in tandem with a rapid exodus of labor out of agriculture. This paper investigates the contribution (or lack thereof) of within- and between-sector productivity changes to overall productivity growth and output per capita growth since 2000. Productivity growth was ...
    Feb, 2018
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    Report

    Economy Profile of Benin

     
    World Bank Group
    Doing Business 2018 is the 15th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Benin. Doing Business presents quantitative indicato ...
    Doing Business 2018 is the 15th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This econ ...
    Doing Business 2018 is the 15th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Benin. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of property rights ...
    Nov 01, 2017
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    The Geography of Welfare in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo

     
    Nguyen, Nga Thi Viet; Dizon, Felipe F.
    This report aims to assess the spatial disparities in economic development along four important dimensions: (i) It provides stylized facts of the underlying forces behind within-country inequality, namely natural endowment, agglomeration economies, and market access. ...
    This report aims to assess the spatial disparities in economic development along four important dimensions: (i) It provides stylized facts of the underlying forc ...
    This report aims to assess the spatial disparities in economic development along four important dimensions: (i) It provides stylized facts of the underlying forces behind within-country inequality, namely natural endowment, agglomeration economies, and market access. These are the three building blocks of the economic geography li ...
    Aug, 2017
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    Formalization without Certification? : Experimental Evidence on Property Rights and Investment

     
    Goldstein, Markus; Houngbedji, Kenneth; Kondylis, Florence; O'Sullivan, Michael; Selod, Harris
    We present evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. We examine the link between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The demarcation process involved communities in the mapping and att ...
    We present evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. We examine the link between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a mod ...
    We present evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. We examine the link between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The demarcation process involved communities in the mapping and attribution of land rights; cornerstones marked parcel boundaries and offered lasting landmar ...
    Jan 03, 2018
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    Does Inducing Informal Firms to Formalize Make Sense? : Experimental Evidence from Benin

     
    Benhassine, Najy; McKenzie, David; Pouliquen, Victor; Santini, Massimiliano
    Efforts to bring informal firms into the formal sector are often based on a view that this will bring benefits to the firms themselves, or at least benefit governments through increasing the tax base. A randomized experiment based around the introduction of the entreprenant legal status in Benin is used to test these a ...
    Efforts to bring informal firms into the formal sector are often based on a view that this will bring benefits to the firms themselves, or at least benefit governments through increasing the tax base. ...
    Efforts to bring informal firms into the formal sector are often based on a view that this will bring benefits to the firms themselves, or at least benefit governments through increasing the tax base. A randomized experiment based around the introduction of the entreprenant legal status in Benin is used to test these assumptions, along with supplementary efforts to enhance the presumed benefits of formalizi ...
    Jan, 2018
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    Supporting Effective Regulation and Supervision of Index-Insurance in Francophone Africa

     
    Assah, Fatou C.; Sberro-Kessler, Rachel
    The development of sustainable index-insurance markets requires enabling legal and regulatory environments. In addition to this regional regulatory change, the global index-insurance facility (GIIF) has supported national insurance supervision agencies wi ...
    The development of sustainable index-insurance markets requires enabling legal and regulatory environments. In addition to this regional regulatory change, the g ...
    The development of sustainable index-insurance markets requires enabling legal and regulatory environments. In addition to this regional regulatory change, the global index-insurance facility (GIIF) has supported national insurance supervision agencies with this transition. In particular, GIIF has assisted the Senegalese Insurance ...
    2017
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    Working Paper

    Urban Safety Nets – Experiences from Three Countries : Benin, Republic of Congo, and Mali

     
    Moreira, Vanessa; Gentilini, Ugo
    As countries implement social safety nets programs, a range of technical hurdles affects their implementation differently in rural and urban areas. In urban areas, the focus of this study, living in is expensive and more vulnerable at economy slowdowns. Poverty can be ...
    As countries implement social safety nets programs, a range of technical hurdles affects their implementation differently in rural and urban areas. In urban area ...
    As countries implement social safety nets programs, a range of technical hurdles affects their implementation differently in rural and urban areas. In urban areas, the focus of this study, living in is expensive and more vulnerable at economy slowdowns. Poverty can be more severe than in rural areas and accompanied by high malnutr ...
    Dec, 2016
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    Working Paper

    Urban Social Assistance : Emerging Insights from Three African Countries

     
    Moreira, Vanessa; Gentilini, Ugo
    As countries implement social assistance (or safety net) programs, a range of technicalhurdles can affect their implementation differently in rural and urban areas. In urban areas,the focus of this study, cost of living can be higher and more prone to economic ...
    As countries implement social assistance (or safety net) programs, a range of technicalhurdles can affect their implementation differently in rural and urban are ...
    As countries implement social assistance (or safety net) programs, a range of technicalhurdles can affect their implementation differently in rural and urban areas. In urban areas,the focus of this study, cost of living can be higher and more prone to economic slowdowns.Poverty can be more severe than in rural areas and accompanie ...
    Dec 01, 2016
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    Report

    Doing Business Economy Profile 2017 : Bolivia

     
    World Bank Group
    This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Benin. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. Doing Business 2017 is the 14th in a series of annual reports investigating ...
    This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Benin. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator ...
    This economy profile presents the Doing Business indicators for Benin. To allow useful comparison, it also provides data for other selected economies (comparator economies) for each indicator. Doing Business 2017 is the 14th in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that c ...
    Oct 25, 2016

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