The objective of this report is to
provide a comprehensive data and evidence-based analysis of
gender-based sex selection (GBSS) in Vietnam in terms of
demographic projections...
Type: ReportReport#: 165429Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Buchhave,Helle ;
Karacsony,Sandor I.
Understanding the aspirations and goals
of the youth is essential to developing effective employment
policies. Policies should be designed to allow educational
and professional...
Type: ReportReport#: 167431Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Costa,Valentina ;
Contreras Gonzalez,Ivette Maria ;
Palacios-Lopez,Amparo
The paper studies the relationship
between innovation efforts, innovation outputs, and
productivity, using firm-level data from six East Asian
countries. Firms are more...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9921Date: February 1, 2022Author:
De Nicola,Francesca ;
Chen,Pinyi
As schools reopened after 18 months, are
adolescent girls and boys back in school and engaged with
learning? Evidence from four surveys in Punjab, Pakistan.
The Iraq Reform, Recovery and
Reconstruction Fund (I3RF) was founded in partnership with
the Government of Iraq in 2018 and is funded by Canada,
Germany, Sweden and...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 168974Date: January 31, 2022
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards’ calendar for the period from January to March
2022, specifying the Boards’ engagements, such as meetings
and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 168342Date: January 31, 2022
With only 32 percent of working-age
women in the labor market, Guatemala is an
upper-middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of
female labor force participation...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9919Date: January 28, 2022Author:
Almeida,Rita Kullberg ;
Viollaz,Mariana
While there have been welcome advances
in global evidence on and understanding of forced
displacement, research and analysis of the gendered
dimensions of displacement...
Type: ReportReport#: 168165Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Klugman,Jeni
After the 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish
conflict, 1.2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly displaced
from Turkey to Greece, increasing the host population by 20
percent within...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9912Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Murard,Elie
The paper examines the patterns of
economic integration of refugees in Switzerland, a country
with a long tradition of hosting refugees, a top-receiving
host in Europe,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9914Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Müller,Tobias ;
Pannatier,Pia ;
Viarengo,Martina Giorgia
This technical guidance note sets out
how to navigate some of the challenges that governments and
other organizations may face when designing and implementing
a monitoring...
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank Group President David Malpass at the interview
with Adam Posen on Exceptional Uncertainty and the Global
Economy on January...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 168121Date: January 19, 2022Author:
Malpass,David
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank Group President David Malpass's at the
interview with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Surveillance on
January 18, 2022. He said...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 167997Date: January 18, 2022Author:
Malpass,David
This volume contains written
contributions from some of the key actors involved on both
the Chinese and the World Bank sides in the past four
decades of partnership....
Type: ReportReport#: 162034Date: January 18, 2022Author:
Raiser,Martin ;
Koch-Weser,Caio K. ;
Lim,Edwin R. ;
Burki,Javed ;
Bottelier,Pieter P. ;
Hope,Nicholas C. ;
Huang,Yukon ;
Dollar,David R. ;
Rohland,Klaus ;
Hofman,Bert ;
Yang,Shaolin ;
Wencai,Zhang ;
Chen,Shixin ;
Yingming,Yang ;
Yu,Ye ;
Zhongjing,Wang ;
Chang,Junhong ;
Kwakwa,Victoria
This paper examines the short-term
implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for inequality in
developing countries. The analysis takes advantage of
high-frequency phone...
Moldova’s policy priorities and key
actions going forward: Strengthening the capacity and
governance of public administration; Strengthening the
judiciary and the fight...
Type: ReportReport#: 167897Date: January 12, 2022Author:
Curto,Stefano
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards’ calendar for the period from January 2022 to
March 2022, specifying the Boards’ engagements, such as
meetings and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 167863Date: January 11, 2022
This paper examines the factors that are
associated with boys’ underachievement in
mathematics and science in Saudi Arabia, where students
attend gender-segregated...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9896Date: January 10, 2022Author:
Elsayed,Mahmoud Abduh Ali ;
Clerkin,Aidan ;
Pitsia,Vasiliki ;
Aljabri,Nayyaf ;
Al-Harbi,Khaleel
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