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A microsimulation of the Uganda tax system (UGATAX) and the poor from 1999 to 2003

e most developing countries, Uganda faces serious fiscal challenges in her effort to mobilize and effectively use resources for poverty reduction. However,…...
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Leveraging Resource Wealth During the Low Carbon Transition. Africas Pulse, No. 27 (April)

lic_restricted_partner_only 1202 17 2239 2023-01-01 World Bank 1 en published 1408 0 1 1779429908 1 1 1 0 Leveraging Resource Wealth During…...
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Standard Definitions for Techniques of Supply Chain Finance

Standard Definitions for Techniques of Supply Chain Finance set out in this document builds upon several excellent initiatives and documents aiming to…...
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Africa and Development Cooperation ? Successes, Pitfalls and Areas for Further Reforms

publication contends that development assistance has been of benefit to developing countries over the years. It has helped to build physical infrastructural,…...
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The impact of COVID-19 on remittances for development in Africa

ittance flows, which are an integral part of development finance, proved relatively resilient during the 2008 financial crisis and the 2014 Ebola epidemic.…...
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Africa Franchise Report: A Study of Franchising in Africa

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), a pan African multilateral financial institution established in 1993, commissioned a market study on the…...
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From the Great Lockdown to the Great Meltdown: Developing Country Debt in the Time of Covid-19

Covid-19 shock is posing unprecedented challenges to advanced country governments. As most have come to recognize, the economic crisis entailed by the…...
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Global Bank Lending under Climate Policy

t is the response of bank foreign subsidiaries to climate policy in their host countries? We find that global banks with high environmental performance…...
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Inequality of Opportunity in Child Health in Ethiopia

ly childhood development such as child health and nutrition is shown to affect success and wellbeing later in adulthood. While child health and nutrition are…...
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Botswana Social Protection Assessment

pite its rapid economic growth and high per capita income level, Botswana is still plagued by many development problems common to low-income countries. To…...