World Bank - Middle East and North Africa

2014-10-30T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-30T04:00:00.000ZISR16441JordanSetlur,BanuEnglishJordan - JO-Badia Ecosystem and Livelihoods : P127861 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 05Implementation Status and Results ReportEnglishJordan

2014-10-30T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-30T04:00:00.000ZEducation|Finance and Financial Sector DevelopmentEducation For All|Education Indicators and Statistics|Tertiary Education|Access & Equity in Basic Education|Access to FinanceMiddle East and North AfricaWest Bank and Gaza - Education to Work Transition Project : procurement planEnglishWest Bank and GazaEducation|Finance and Financial Sector DevelopmentEducation For All|Education Indicators and Statistics|Tertiary Education|Access & Equity in Basic Education|Access to Finance92173West Bank and GazaEnglishProcurement PlanMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-30T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-30T04:00:00.000ZCulture and Development|Rural Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentRural Communities|Debt Markets|E-Business|Culture and Cultural PracticeMiddle East and North AfricaWest Bank and Gaza - Water Sector Capacity Building Project : procurement planEnglishWest Bank and GazaCulture and Development|Rural Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentRural Communities|Debt Markets|E-Business|Culture and Cultural Practice92174West Bank and GazaEnglishProcurement PlanMiddle East and North Africa

The project DJ Social Safety Net Project Additional Financing has changed to Active. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database

2014-10-30T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-30T04:00:00.000ZDjiboutiP149621DJActiveCHANGE

2014-10-30T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-30T04:00:00.000ZWater Supply and Sanitation|Water Resources|EnvironmentSanitation and Sewerage|Town Water Supply and Sanitation|Water Conservation|Water Resources ManagementMiddle East and North AfricaLebanon - PCB Management in the Power Sector ProjectEnglishLebanonWater Supply and Sanitation|Water Resources|EnvironmentSanitation and Sewerage|Town Water Supply and Sanitation|Water Conservation|Water Resources ManagementPIDA8595LebanonEnglishProject Information DocumentMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-30T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-30T04:00:00.000ZTransport|Conflict and Development|Rural Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentTransport Economics Policy & Planning|E-Business|Post Conflict Reconstruction|Rural Roads & Transport|Debt MarketsMiddle East and North AfricaYemen - Second Rural Access Project : additional financing - procurement planEnglishYemen, Republic ofTransport|Conflict and Development|Rural Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentTransport Economics Policy & Planning|E-Business|Post Conflict Reconstruction|Rural Roads & Transport|Debt Markets92047Yemen, Republic ofEnglishProcurement PlanMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-30T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-30T04:00:00.000ZLaw and Development|International Economics and Trade|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentE-Business|Debt Markets|External Debt|Contract Law|Corruption & Anticorruption LawMiddle East and North AfricaYemen, Republic of - Social Welfare Fund Institutional Support Project : procurement planEnglishYemen, Republic ofLaw and Development|International Economics and Trade|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentE-Business|Debt Markets|External Debt|Contract Law|Corruption & Anticorruption Law92041Yemen, Republic ofEnglishProcurement PlanMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-29T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-29T04:00:00.000ZISR15981West Bank and GazaMalinska,JanaEnglishWest Bank and Gaza - GZ:Government Services for Business Development : P126586 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 06Implementation Status and Results ReportEnglishWest Bank and Gaza

2014-10-29T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-29T04:00:00.000ZLaw and Development|Culture and Development|Conflict and Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentContract Law|E-Business|Post Conflict Reconstruction|Debt Markets|Literature & FolkloreMiddle East and North AfricaYemen - Enterprise Revitalization and Employment Pilot Project : procurement planEnglishYemen, Republic ofLaw and Development|Culture and Development|Conflict and Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentContract Law|E-Business|Post Conflict Reconstruction|Debt Markets|Literature & Folklore92011Yemen, Republic ofEnglishProcurement PlanMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-29T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-29T04:00:00.000ZInformation and Communication Technologies|Environment|Education|Private Sector DevelopmentE-Business|Access & Equity in Basic Education|Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases|Education For All|ICT Policy and StrategiesMiddle East and North AfricaYemen, Republic of - Climate Information System and Pilot Program for Climate Resilience Coordination Project : procurement planEnglishYemen, Republic ofInformation and Communication Technologies|Environment|Education|Private Sector DevelopmentE-Business|Access & Equity in Basic Education|Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases|Education For All|ICT Policy and Strategies92029Yemen, Republic ofEnglishProcurement PlanMiddle East and North Africa

Better functioning financial systems foster economic growth, poverty alleviation; moreover, a more equitable distribution of economic opportunities enhances overall economic development. It is critical that financial development leads to inclusive growth. This brings us to certain key questions: Who benefits from a better financial system? Does financial development induce an increase in per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) only because the very rich are getting even richer? Does finance expand economic opportunities for the bulk of society? Economic theory suggests that finance shapes the distribution of economic opportunities. The financial system affects the degree to which a person’s economic opportunities are defined. It influences who can launch a new business venture and who cannot, who can acquire education and who cannot, who can live in a neighborhood that fosters the cognitive and non-cognitive development of their children and who cannot, who can pursue one’s economic dreams and who cannot. A more competitive, better functioning financial system exerts a disproportionately positive impact on relatively low-income families. According to the extent that the financial system performs these functions well, economies tend to grow correspondingly faster. For example, when banks screen borrowers effectively and identify firms with the most promising prospects, this is a first step in boosting productivity growth. When financial markets and institutions mobilize savings from disparate households to invest in these promising projects, this represents a second crucial step in fostering economic growth. When financial institutions monitor the use of investments after financing firms and scrutinize their managerial performance, this is an additional, essential ingredient in boosting the operational efficiency of corporations, reducing waste and fraud, and spurring economic inclusivity. There is a robust positive relationship between financial development and both poverty alleviation and reduction in income inequality. It is not just that finance accelerates economic growth, which trickles down to the poor; rather, finance exerts a disproportionately positive influence on lower income households. Building on the finance and poverty connection, there is a direct link between finance and human welfare. When policy reforms foster the development of the financial system, financial services improve, accelerating economic growth, which ultimately leads to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.2014-10-29T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-29T04:00:00.000ZFinance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Access to Finance|Emerging Markets|Banks & Banking Reform|Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial DistressMiddle East and North AfricaNasr, SaharExecutive summaryEnglishEgypt, Arab Republic ofFinance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Access to Finance|Emerging Markets|Banks & Banking Reform|Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress91880Egypt, Arab Republic ofEnglishWorking PaperMiddle East and North Africa

Better functioning financial systems foster economic growth, poverty alleviation; moreover, a more equitable distribution of economic opportunities enhances overall economic development. It is critical that financial development leads to inclusive growth. This brings us to certain key questions: Who benefits from a better financial system? Does financial development induce an increase in per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) only because the very rich are getting even richer? Does finance expand economic opportunities for the bulk of society? Economic theory suggests that finance shapes the distribution of economic opportunities. The financial system affects the degree to which a person’s economic opportunities are defined. It influences who can launch a new business venture and who cannot, who can acquire education and who cannot, who can live in a neighborhood that fosters the cognitive and non-cognitive development of their children and who cannot, who can pursue one’s economic dreams and who cannot. A more competitive, better functioning financial system exerts a disproportionately positive impact on relatively low-income families. According to the extent that the financial system performs these functions well, economies tend to grow correspondingly faster. For example, when banks screen borrowers effectively and identify firms with the most promising prospects, this is a first step in boosting productivity growth. When financial markets and institutions mobilize savings from disparate households to invest in these promising projects, this represents a second crucial step in fostering economic growth. When financial institutions monitor the use of investments after financing firms and scrutinize their managerial performance, this is an additional, essential ingredient in boosting the operational efficiency of corporations, reducing waste and fraud, and spurring economic inclusivity. There is a robust positive relationship between financial development and both poverty alleviation and reduction in income inequality. It is not just that finance accelerates economic growth, which trickles down to the poor; rather, finance exerts a disproportionately positive influence on lower income households. Building on the finance and poverty connection, there is a direct link between finance and human welfare. When policy reforms foster the development of the financial system, financial services improve, accelerating economic growth, which ultimately leads to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity.2014-10-29T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-29T04:00:00.000ZFinance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Access to Finance|Banks & Banking Reform|Emerging Markets|Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial DistressMiddle East and North AfricaNasr, SaharMain reportEnglishEgypt, Arab Republic ofFinance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Access to Finance|Banks & Banking Reform|Emerging Markets|Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress91880Egypt, Arab Republic ofEnglishWorking PaperMiddle East and North Africa

As Dubai has grown over the last two decades, the demand for private education has grown with it, a reflection of the number of expatriates settling in the city. Today, 88 percent of all students attend private schools. The surge in demand over this period had in fact been so significant that authorities, recognizing the need to establish a specific governmental entity to oversee the sector’s expansion, moved to create the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) in 2007. Given the city-state’s unique context (in which a majority of the population are expatriates, not Emiratis), the immediate challenge for this new public institution was to identify an appropriate approach for regulating a private education sector. The main objective of the present review is to understand what has motivated KHDA’s policy initiatives, what principles have guided design, how they were operationalized, and how they function in real life situations today. In what follows, we look first at the broader context of the issue by giving a brief overview of: (i) the growth of private sector education; and (ii) the rise of public governance reform initiatives in the global education policy agenda. The authors then turn to the case of Dubai: the authors present the argument in the road not traveled before reviewing how that policy framework was translated into its present institutional configuration in Dubai through the development of the institutions that came into being. The authors then reflect on the policy framework in operation, showing how the constituent components function together. The authors end by suggesting some options on potential ways forward that will further enhance the system.2014-10-29T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-29T04:00:00.000ZEducation|GenderEducation For All|Tertiary Education|Primary Education|Teaching and Learning|Gender and EducationMiddle East and North AfricaThacker, Simon|Cuadra, ErnestoThe road traveled : Dubai's journey towards improving private education - a World Bank reviewEnglishUnited Arab EmiratesEducation|GenderEducation For All|Tertiary Education|Primary Education|Teaching and Learning|Gender and Education91884United Arab EmiratesEnglishWorking PaperMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-29T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-29T04:00:00.000ZISR16602YemenYamouri,NajatEnglishYemen, Republic of - Gov't and Civil Society Organization Partnership : P144665 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02Implementation Status and Results ReportEnglishYemen

Ratings for the West Delta Water Conservation and Irrigation Rehabilitation Project for Egypt were as follows: outcomes were not applicable; risk to development outcome was not applicable; Bank performance was unsatisfactory; and borrower performance was also unsatisfactory. The specific development objectives of the project were to achieve financial sustainability of irrigation infrastructure in the West Delta and to promote greater efficiency in the use of water resources established through a public-private partnership and farmer's participation. The project was approved by the Board on June 21 2007, but the loan agreement was not signed by the Government until September 1, 2008 and the project was declared effective on July 8, 2009. The loan became effective only in October 2009. The implementation schedule devised at appraisal (four years duration) turned out to be highly unrealistic. Prequalification of bidders: based on the Bank prequalification guidelines, a lengthy prequalification process was completed by the end of 2007. As a result of this process, five consortia were prequalified. International (French, Spanish, Italian and Chinese) and national contractors were amongst those prequalified. Despite the fact that two pre-bid conferences took place in March and May 2008, the first bidding exercise of August 2008 was not successful as none of the prequalified consortia submitted a bid. This was principally due to: (i) the payment risks were considered too high; (ii) the guarantees by the Government were not sufficient for the private sector in the demand risk was not sufficiently advanced to be satisfactory to the private sector. This was linked to the fact that Public Private Partnership (PPP) in construction and operation of large scale irrigation projects is uncommon worldwide, and the willingness of the private sector to assume the expected risks was limited. After the project was approved by the Government and declared effective in July 2009, the consortia expressed their continued interest in the project but indicated that they still considered that the payment / demand risk was too great. The risk was perceived as both political (political decisions might interfere with the companies' ability to collect water charges from the farmers), as well as a real credit risk (that farmers might default on their promised to pay the irrigation tariff due to unforeseen developments in the sector).2014-10-28T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-28T04:00:00.000ZWater Supply and Sanitation|Finance and Financial Sector DevelopmentWater Supply and Systems|Town Water Supply and Sanitation|Access to Finance|Banks & Banking Reform|Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and InstitutionsMiddle East and North AfricaEgypt - West Delta Water Conservation and Irrigation Rehabilitation ProjectEnglishEgypt, Arab Republic ofWater Supply and Sanitation|Finance and Financial Sector DevelopmentWater Supply and Systems|Town Water Supply and Sanitation|Access to Finance|Banks & Banking Reform|Water Supply and Sanitation Governance and InstitutionsNCO2221Egypt, Arab Republic ofEnglishNote on Cancelled OperationMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-28T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-28T04:00:00.000ZISR16217Egypt, Arab Republic ofSarhan,Alaa AhmedEnglishEgypt, Arab Republic of - Egypt: Sustainable POPs Management Project : P116230 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01Implementation Status and Results ReportEnglishEgypt, Arab Republic of

2014-10-28T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-28T04:00:00.000ZFinance and Financial Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress|Financial Literacy|Banks & Banking Reform|Access to FinanceMiddle East and North AfricaJordan - Enhancing Governance and Strengthening the Regulatory and Institutional Framework for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Development Project : procurement planEnglishJordanFinance and Financial Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress|Financial Literacy|Banks & Banking Reform|Access to Finance91881JordanEnglishProcurement PlanMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-28T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-28T04:00:00.000ZLaw and Development|Conflict and Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Contract Law|E-Business|Post Conflict Reconstruction|Banks & Banking ReformMiddle East and North AfricaLebanon - Greater Beirut Water Supply Project : procurement planEnglishLebanonLaw and Development|Conflict and Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Contract Law|E-Business|Post Conflict Reconstruction|Banks & Banking Reform91876LebanonEnglishProcurement PlanMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-28T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-28T04:00:00.000ZLaw and Development|Conflict and Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Contract Law|E-Business|Banks & Banking Reform|Post Conflict ReconstructionMiddle East and North AfricaLebanon - Greater Beirut Water Supply Project : procurement planEnglishLebanonLaw and Development|Conflict and Development|Finance and Financial Sector Development|Private Sector DevelopmentDebt Markets|Contract Law|E-Business|Banks & Banking Reform|Post Conflict Reconstruction91878LebanonEnglishProcurement PlanMiddle East and North Africa

2014-10-28T04:00:00.000Z2014-10-28T04:00:00.000ZISR16419LebanonLeon Solano,Rene AntonioEnglishLebanon - Social Promotion And Protection Project : P124761 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 02Implementation Status and Results ReportEnglishLebanon