the Women Entrepreneurship Development Project, a Government of Ethiopia initiative financed by a World Bank International … countries in the world, and government administration units involved in administering projects often face funding and resource …

their fair share to society. This paper also provides the first analysis of the World Bank's Digital Business Indicators …

Middle East and North Africa countries and 20 comparator countries around the world, this paper shows that the Middle East …

estimates indicate that forecast uncertainty has increased since January 2016, while the balance of risks to global growth has …

The paper introduces a Bayesian cross-entropy forecast (BCEF) procedure to assess the variance and skewness in density … surveys on expectations and implied statistics of predictive models. The BCEF procedure is applied to produce world GDP growth …

the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …

China has quickly become the largest e-commerce market in the world. By matching a nationally representative China …

develops a stylized model of mergers and acquisitions that predicts that the incidence of merger and acquisition deals depends … costs. These predictions are examined with bilateral merger and acquisition flow data and detailed information on policy … probability of merger and acquisition inflows but this negative effect is mitigated in countries with relatively large shares of …