As Uganda builds back from the COVID-19
shock, the Ugandan government is strengthening its
commitment to a more gender-inclusive and sustainable
economy. This report...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168683Date: February 14, 2022Author:
Willman,Alys M. ;
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Myers,Cara Ann
Evaluating the relevance of development
interventions is a complex task because many different
dimensions must be considered. This study focuses on one
particular, quantifiable...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9935Date: February 10, 2022Author:
Naeher,Dominik ;
Narayanan,Raghavan ;
Ziulu,Virginia
The global program on sustainability
(GPS) is the World Bank’s umbrella program on
natural capital accounting (NCA) and the economics of
sustainability, and includes...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 168295Date: February 3, 2022
Tanzania was again one of the top growth
performers in the region. Official GDP figures show that
growth remained steady in the first half of the year, driven
by higher...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 144126Date: February 3, 2022Author:
Mungunasi,Emmanuel A.
As of January 2022, a total of 3,856
social protection and labor measures were planned or
implemented by 223 economies. This constitutes a net
increase of 523 measures,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168386Date: February 2, 2022
This is the first annual report for
PROGREEN, the Global Partnership for Sustainable and
Resilient Landscapes. A multi-donor umbrella program housed
at the World Bank,...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 169602Date: February 1, 2022
The transportation of goods and people
via inland waterways has lost its position in Pakistan
during the last decades due to the development of land
transport systems...
Type: ReportReport#: 165820Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Zaidi,Hasan Afzal ;
Hoang,Dung Anh ;
Dahdah,Said ;
de Leijer,Harrie ;
Chaudhry,Farooque ;
Haneef,Rashid ;
van Liere,Richard ;
Paracha,Muhammad Bilal ;
Malik,Sehar Javed ;
Nasim,Usama ;
Quamber,Rubina
To ensure food security and other social
needs, support profitable farms that create jobs, reduce
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and bolster resilience to
climate extremes...
This paper reports on a randomized
experiment conducted among Malawian agricultural households
to study nonclassical measurement error in self-reported
plot area and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9908Date: January 24, 2022Author:
Abay,Kibrom A. ;
Barrett,Christopher B. ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Moylan,Heather G. ;
Ilukor,John ;
Vundru,Wilbert Drazi
Informal business activity is ubiquitous
around the world, but it is nearly always uncaptured by
administrative data, registries, or commercial sources. For
this reason,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9905Date: January 19, 2022Author:
Aga,Gemechu A. ;
Francis,David C. ;
Jolevski,Filip ;
Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis ;
Wimpey,Joshua Seth
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
Across Sub-Saharan African countries
with customary tenure systems and low levels of documented
land ownership, there are limited nationally representative
insights...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9900Date: January 13, 2022Author:
Hasanbasri,Ardina Roosiany ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Koolwal,Gayatri B. ;
Moylan,Heather G.
This paper presents a novel framework to
estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and
quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified
by accounting...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9893Date: January 6, 2022Author:
Beyer,Robert Carl Michael ;
Hu,Yingyao ;
Yao,Jiaxiong
How did the US-China trade war affect
global trade? Surprisingly, exports of products taxed by US
or China increased from “bystander”
countries to the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9894Date: January 6, 2022Author:
Fajgelbaum,Pablo David ;
Goldberg,Pinelopi Koujianou ;
Kennedy,Patrick ;
Khandelwal,Amit Kumar ;
Taglioni,Daria
The Country Opinion Survey in Burundi
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Burundi perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168449Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Felzer,Sharon
The global recovery is set to decelerate
amid diminished policy support, continued COVID-19
flare-ups, and lingering supply bottlenecks. In contrast to
that in advanced...
Type: PublicationReport#: 167864Date: January 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
Trade Facilitation Challenges for Women
Traders and Freight Forwarders in Fiji The World Bank Group
completed the Trade and Gender Study in the Fiji to identify
the...
Migration shapes the lives of those who
move and transforms the geographies and economies of their
points of departure and destinations alike. The water
sector, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 163276Date: December 21, 2021Author:
Zaveri,Esha Dilip ;
Russ,Jason Daniel ;
Khan,Amjad Muhammad ;
Damania,Richard ;
Borgomeo,Edoardo ;
Jagerskog,Lars Anders
The traditional consumer price index is
often produced at an aggregate level, using data from few,
highly urbanized, areas. As such, it poorly describes price
trends...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9886Date: December 16, 2021Author:
Andree,Bo Pieter Johannes
Across a wide variety of regions and
contexts, surveys have found high rates of disagreement
within couples on matters of household decision making.
Using a unique data...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9883Date: December 14, 2021Author:
Liaqat,Sundas ;
Donald,Aletheia Amalia ;
Jarvis,Forest Brach ;
Perova,Elizaveta ;
Johnson,Hillary C.
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