This report presents our assessment of
the relative importance of theseveral pollution problems and
other man-induced chemical changes in theMediterranean Sea.
It also...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 189627Date: April 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
Forced displacement has become more
frequent in the last decades, with refugees often spending
many years abroad. While international responses often focus
on immediate...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 189759Date: April 1, 2024Author:
Honorati,Maddalena ;
Testaverde,Mauro ;
Totino,Elisa
Despite efforts to generate more funds
for education, current financing in the education sector is
inadequate, inefficient, and inequitable to ensure quality
education...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 189695Date: April 1, 2024Author:
Patrinos,Harry Anthony ;
Tanaka,Nobuyuki
With nearly 420 million children reached
worldwide, school meals are among the largest-scale social
protection interventions. This paper traces the evolution of
school...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 189209Date: March 31, 2024Author:
Bundy, Donal AP ;
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Schultz,Linda Brooke ;
Bedasso,Biniam Egu ;
Singh,Samrat ;
Okamura,Yuko ;
Iyengar, Hrishikesh TMM ;
Blakstad,Mia Monique
This technical note summarizes changes
to how the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) lines up
survey-based estimates of poverty to a common reference
year. The prior...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 188330Date: March 27, 2024Author:
Mahler,Daniel Gerszon ;
Newhouse,David Locke
The United Nations Climate Change
Conference (COP28) closed with a statement signaling the
beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era, a just and
equitable transition,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 188142Date: March 8, 2024Author:
Lehr,Ulrike Gabriel Elisabeth Augusta ;
Pollitt,Hector Ben
The March 2024 update to the Poverty and
Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the
data underlying the global poverty estimates. In particular,
some...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 188600Date: March 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Rwanda Economic Update edition 22
reviews the country’s macroeconomic performance
and prospects and includes a special section focusing on
Mobilizing Domestic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 187972Date: February 28, 2024Author:
World Bank
Quantifying the jobs impacts of
development interventions is a challenge, largely because
much of the impact is indirect. Yet, given the tremendous
jobs challenges in...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 185917Date: November 21, 2023Author:
Osborne,Theresa Kay ;
Jose Manuel Romero
Electricity plays a crucial role in
health, safety, and participation in the modern world. The
channels by which is contributes to economic development are
still not...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 185723Date: November 9, 2023Author:
Lehr,Ulrike Gabriel Elisabeth Augusta
The livestock sector in Bangladesh plays
a significant role in employment, contributing to 14.5
percent of overall employment and over one-third of the
agricultural...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 185308Date: October 18, 2023Author:
Ahmed,Md Mansur ;
Jonaed,Fnu ;
Hoque,Md. Nazmul
This paper offers three key contributors
to the excising literature. Firstly, it reviewsthe use of
technology across each phase of delivering social protection
and labor...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 185112Date: October 6, 2023Author:
Lowe,Christina Louise ;
Rigolini,Iamele P. ;
Solbes Castro,Lucia ;
Bastagli,Francesca Adele
The September 2023 update to the Poverty
and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to
the data underlying the global poverty estimates. In
particular, some...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 184889Date: September 14, 2023Author:
Aron,Danielle Victoria ;
R.Andres Castaneda Aguilar ;
Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina ;
Maria Gabriela Farfan Betran ;
Foster,Elizabeth Mary ;
Fujs,Tony Henri Mathias Jany ;
Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell ;
Krishnan,Nandini ;
Lakner,Christoph ;
Lara Ibarra,Gabriel ;
Mahler,Daniel Gerszon
The objective of this note is to present
and discuss the findings of piloting a task-based job
matching tool developed by the World Bank and implemented in
partnership...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 185722Date: August 1, 2023Author:
Honorati,Maddalena ;
Ferre,Celine ;
Gajderowicz,Tomasz Janusz
Governments around the world provided
various types of support to businesses and their employees
affected by the by the COVID-19 pandemic, to preserve
employer-employee...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 184121Date: July 20, 2023Author:
Carranza,Eliana ;
Stan Veuger ;
Weber,Michael
Employment segregation - the unequal
distribution of female and male workers across and within
jobtypes—is often at the heart of gender gaps in
job quality, wage...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 135705Date: July 11, 2023Author:
Carranza,Eliana ;
Das,Smita ;
Kotikula,Aphichoke
Between December 2022 and May 2023, the
number of social protection and other related measures
announced or implemented in response to inflation rose by
about 31 percent....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 183612Date: June 1, 2023Author:
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Almenfi,Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi ;
Iyengar, Hrishikesh TMM ;
Valleriani,Giorgia ;
Okamura,Yuko ;
Urteaga,Emilio Raul ;
Aziz,Sheraz ;
Noruzi,Mohammad Farid Al Azim Bin ;
Chu,Margret
The Rwanda Economic Update No. 21
reviews the country’s macroeconomic performance
and prospects and includes a special section focusing on the
impact of foreign...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 183898Date: June 1, 2023Author:
Djiofack,Calvin Zebaze ;
Niyibizi,Peace Aimee
The agri-food system (AFS) employs about
one third of the global workforce and contributes about one
third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This
together with...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 182142Date: May 16, 2023Author:
Nico,Gianluigi ;
Christiaensen,Luc
: Ghana administers multiple social
protection programs. One, pensions provided by the Social
Security and National Insurance Trust, has a long history,
but the rest...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 181666Date: April 20, 2023Author:
Raju,Dhushyanth ;
Younger,Stephen D. ;
Dadzie,Christabel Ewuradjoa
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