Global poverty is increasingly becoming
concentrated in conflict-affected settings. Therefore,
assessing the welfare of those people displaced by conflict
is of growing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10725Date: March 19, 2024Author:
Lain,Jonathan William ;
Yama,Gervais Chamberlin ;
Hoogeveen,Johannes G.
This paper presents distributional
national accounts for Honduras over 2003–2019,
using survey microdata, administrative tax records, and
national account aggregates....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10722Date: March 18, 2024Author:
Del Carmen,Giselle ;
Garriga,Santiago ;
Nuñez,Wilman ;
De Gouvea Scot De Arruda,Thiago
The complex relationship between climate
shocks, migration, and adaptation hampers a rigorous
understanding of the heterogeneous mobility outcomes of farm
households...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10724Date: March 18, 2024Author:
Letta,Marco ;
Montalbano,Pierluigi ;
Paolantonio,Adriana
Unequal access to economic opportunity
for individuals with different innate characteristics, such
as ethnicity or parents’ socioeconomic status, is
often seen...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10723Date: March 18, 2024Author:
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Cuevas,Pablo Facundo ;
Lebow,Jeremy Aaron ;
Mahler,Daniel Gerszon
This study uses a cluster-randomized
controlled trial to investigate the effects of a large-scale
women and girls empowerment program on sexual and
reproductive health...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10721Date: March 13, 2024Author:
Boulhane,Othmane ;
Boxho,Claire Elise ;
Kanga,Désiré ;
Koussoube,Mousson Estelle Jamel ;
Rouanet,Lea Marie
About a third of the 7.7 million
Venezuelans who have left their country due to political and
economic turmoil have settled in neighboring Colombia. The
extent to which...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10720Date: March 12, 2024Author:
Vargas,Juan F. ;
Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana
Developing countries are facing mounting
pressures to incorporate environmental concerns into their
policy reform agendas. This paper finds that common
environmental...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10719Date: March 8, 2024Author:
Karayalcin,Cem ;
Onder,Harun
Country statistical capacity is
increasingly recognized as crucial for development, but no
academic study exists that reviews the available assessment
tools. This paper...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10717Date: March 6, 2024Author:
Dang,Hai-Anh H. ;
Pullinger,John James ;
Serajuddin,Umar ;
Stacy,Brian William
Imported digital goods are critical for
productivity growth in low-income countries. Using detailed
data on international trade flows and tariffs, this paper
finds that...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10718Date: March 6, 2024Author:
Bastos,Paulo S. R. ;
Castro,Lucio ;
Vargas Da Cruz,Marcio Jose
This paper uses data from
2003–19 on 2.47 million test takers of a national
high stakes university entrance exam in Ethiopia to study
the impacts of temperature...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10714Date: March 5, 2024Author:
Srivastava,Bhavya ;
Hirfrfot,Kibrom Tafere ;
Behrer,Arnold Patrick
Countries worldwide are implementing
GovTech reforms to modernize the public sector and achieve
better performance while responding to citizens’
needs. At its...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10716Date: March 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
Environmental degradation is the largest
public health challenge of the century and is likely to be
exacerbated by climate change. This study undertakes a
comprehensive...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10715Date: March 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
What can be learned from the governance
trajectory of African countries since the beginning of the
21st century? What is the quality of governance on the
African continent...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10713Date: March 4, 2024Author:
Isser,Deborah Hannah ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F. ;
Watts,Michael John ;
Zovighian,Diane
This study investigates gender
disparities in the tax burden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
using data on 2,320 taxpayers for 2011 and 2012. A quantile
regression analysis...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10712Date: February 27, 2024Author:
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Woldeyes,Firew Bekele
This paper uses the construction of
India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway to explore
the impact of an exogenous increase in market access and
competition across...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10710Date: February 27, 2024Author:
Grover,Arti Goswami ;
Maloney,William F. ;
O'Connell,Stephen A.
Women often face more hurdles than men
in obtaining finance. This is especially so when credit
supply is limited and financial markets are less developed.
As a result,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10711Date: February 26, 2024Author:
Mohammad Amin ;
Gomez Caceres,Norma Janeth
The existing literature on development
and economic diversification finds an inverted-U function
between these two variables, whereby economies diversify as
they grow...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10709Date: February 22, 2024Author:
Assem Mohammed G Hassan Ahmed,Hoda ;
Gatti,Roberta V. ;
Lederman,Daniel
In Sub-Saharan Africa, health care
facilities face critical challenges in water supply,
sanitation, and hygiene services; health care waste
management; and environmental...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10708Date: February 21, 2024Author:
Hutton,Guy ;
Chase,Claire ;
Kennedy-Walker,Ruth Jane
Governments often use simplified
business tax systems, such as presumptive tax regimes, to
register and tax small and microenterprises. Despite
concerns about how such...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10707Date: February 20, 2024Author:
Komatsu,Hitomi
This paper quantifies the gains in gross
domestic product per capita from closing gender employment
gaps in the Middle East and North Africa, using three
neoclassical...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10706Date: February 20, 2024Author:
Fiuratti,Federico Ivan ;
Pennings,Steven Michael ;
Torres Coronado,Jesica
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