Structural transformation can spur
economic growth and development if it increases overall
productivity growth. A labor market environment that enables
workers and enterprises...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 154568Date: November 24, 2020Author:
Nxumalo,Mpumelelo ;
Raju,Dhushyanth
This report analyzes the consequences
for the labor force of Western Macedonia’s (Greece)
decarbonization as part of Europe’s new Green Deal. Already,
the region records...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 154104Date: October 31, 2020Author:
Christiaensen,Luc ;
Ferré,Céline
This study assesses jobs outcomes in the
towns of South Sudan, based on a 2017 household survey and a
dedicated 2019 youth jobs survey. It discusses how years of
conflict...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 153815Date: October 26, 2020Author:
Finn,Arden Jeremy ;
Von Der Goltz,Jan ;
Saidi,Mira ;
Sharma,Ambika
This study assesses the state of markets
and of jobs in market-linked agriculture in the towns of
South Sudan. It is based on a 2019 market trader survey end
extensive...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 153821Date: October 26, 2020Author:
Von Der Goltz,Jan ;
Saidi,Mira ;
Mayai,Augustino Ting Morter ;
Williams,Melissa
This study assesses the macro-fiscal
framework for jobs in South Sudan, working with the limited
macro-fiscal data available on the fiscal years 2019 and
2020. The macroeconomic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 153820Date: October 22, 2020Author:
Mawejje,Joseph
This study assesses jobs in businesses
and NGOs in the towns of South Sudan. It is based on a 2019
business survey that includes informal and micro
enterprises, as well...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 153819Date: October 21, 2020Author:
Finn,Arden Jeremy ;
Von Der Goltz,Jan
This case study assessed ongoing
initiatives to address surface water pollution issues in
Mexico, working in partnership with the Comision Nacional
del Agua (CONAGUA),...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 163457Date: October 1, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed
priorities and policy actions in Latin America and the
Caribbean over the past year. The health emergency response
became the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 168496Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Fien-Helfman,Samantha Abigail ;
Boulanger,Susan
The objective of this note is to
highlight how social protection can help lay the human
capital foundations needed for poverty reduction and
economic growth in the East...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 154334Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Moroz,Harry Edmund
Using a case study approach, this
comparative review examines the operational arrangements of
child-focused accompanying measures in nutrition and
parenting from 19...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 154221Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Rawlings,Laura B. ;
Trias,Julieta M. ;
Willenborg,Emma Schwirck
This technical note discusses how to
implement a carbon tax at the national level. A carbon tax
is a tax on fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, and
crude oil (including...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 151471Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Stretton,Stephen John
In this paper, we present new Proxy
Means Test (PMT) models for targeting based on the 2017
household survey data (EDAM4). The paper finds that the
developed PMT models,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 152333Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Mendiratta,Vibhuti ;
Moubarak,Amr S. ;
Lara Ibarra,Gabriel ;
Van Dyck,John ;
Santacroce,Marco
To understand the impacts of support
programs on global emissions, this paper considers the
impacts of domestic subsidies, price distortions at the
border, and investments...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 152852Date: August 1, 2020
As in most conflicts, in South Sudan,
women and girls have been the most vulnerable. Not only do
they face many challenges, including extreme poverty and
lack of access...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 151319Date: July 30, 2020Author:
Silva ;
Samantha de ;
Hasan ;
Abir ;
Ouedraogo ;
Aissatou ;
Rubiano Matulevich,Eliana Carolina ;
Eliana,Tiurma
This note discusses policy options for
managing the employment impacts of the COVID-19
(coronavirus) crisis aimed at relief and restructuring. The
note pays attention...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 151282Date: July 29, 2020Author:
Carranza,Eliana ;
Farole,Thomas ;
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Morgandi,Matteo ;
Packard,Truman G. ;
Santos,Indhira Vanessa ;
Weber,Michael
This paper attempts to assess the
vulnerability of Armenian temporary international labor
migrants and their families to the labor market challenges
posed by the Coronavirus...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 151567Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Honorati,Maddalena ;
Yi,Soonhwa ;
Choi,Thelma Seoeun
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has
triggered a deep global economic recession. The COVID-19
(Coronavirus) shock is the most adverse peacetime shock to
the global...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 150982Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Sanghi,Apurva ;
Emelyanova,Olga
This paper analyzes to what extent jobs
in different sectors of Turkey are vulnerable to the
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) crisis considering both effects
specific to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 151693Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Demir Seker,Sirma ;
Nas Ozen,Selin Efsan ;
Acar Erdogan,Aysenur
This paper investigates reasons of
Georgian targeted social assistance (TSA)’s declining
performance and presents a new proxy means test (PMT) model
estimated on the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 151694Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Honorati,Maddalena ;
Sormani,Roberto Claudio ;
Carraro,Ludovico
Refugees and internally displaced
persons (IDPs) often struggle to integrate the labor market.
Even where they have the unrestricted right to work their
labor market...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 149848Date: June 1, 2020Author:
Schuettler,Kirsten ;
Caron,Laura Kathryn
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