The World Bank has recently defined two strategic goals: ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Shared prosperity is measured as income growth among the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution in the population. The two goals should be achieved in a way that is sustainable from economic, social, and environmental perspectives. ......
Critical Regulatory Frameworks for Business in Latin America
Policy and regulatory frameworks are crucial to shaping private decisions. This study examines how labor market regulations, social protection systems, and tax systems are shaped in eleven Latin American countries. It finds substantial heterogeneity in regulatory environments, giving rise to highly uneven playing fields for businesses.
This study?which includes a pilot intervention in Kenya?aims to further the state of knowledge about the emerging trend of disruptive agricultural technologies (DATs) in Africa, with a focus on supply-side dynamics. The first part of the study is a stocktaking analysis to assess the number, scope, trend, and characteristics of scalable disruptive ......
Robots, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms are affecting growth and jobs by creating new tasks, enhancing labor productivity, and displacing workers. To adapt, the region needs to enhance skills, facilitate mobility, remove factor price distortions, and provide social insurance for workers in the new digital ecoomy.
Developing East Asia has shown how rapid and broadly shared growth can lift millions out of poverty. But inclusive growth is not assured. This book is about how countries in the region can confront challenges such as a growing concentration of income and wealth, limited access to social services, and rapid aging to achieve inclusive growth.
This book reviews existing risk mitigation instruments--guarantee and insurance products--primarily focusing on those offered by multilateral and bilateral official agencies, and presents with case transactions recent trends and developments that make these instruments conducive in securing financing for infrastructure projects in developing ......
Objectives, Behavioral Responses, and Technological Advances
This report re-evaluates taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean, expanding the focus from collection efficiency and equity to include economic growth as a key objective. It examines how taxpayer behavior and technological advancements affect the effectiveness and trade-offs of core taxes, and calls for a nuanced, context-specific approach.
Objectives, Behavioral Responses, and Technological Advances
This report re-evaluates taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean, expanding the focus from collection efficiency and equity to include economic growth as a key objective. It examines how taxpayer behavior and technological advancements affect the effectiveness and trade-offs of core taxes, and calls for a nuanced, context-specific approach.
