The objectives of the education sector
gender analysis aimed to: (i) assess the current status of,
and remaining gaps in, gender equality in Mongolia’s
education sector;...
The Buddhist circuit is a route that
follows in the footsteps of the historical Buddha from
Lumbini in Nepal where he was born, through Bodh Gaya in
Bihar, India where...
Board gender diversity has improved
across all regions over the last two decades. In the early
2000s, there were only a handful of countries in Western
Europe where...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 141453Date: January 1, 2019
This toolkit establishes technical
guidelines for gender mainstreaming at all stages of the
resettlement process in development projects. While it is
based on experience...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 136014Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Nghi,Nguyen Quy ;
Tam,Nguyen Thanh
The Brazil Investment Plan (BIP) was
launched in 2012 as an innovative effort to expand Brazil’s
climate change policies by directly addressing drivers of
deforestation...
Type: ReportReport#: 139636Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Little,Paul Elliott
Although geothermal energy is globally
recognized as a clean and reliable source of heat and
electric power its development can inadvertently lead to
adverse outcomes...
The report examines the current tourism
development and market of the Prešovský Samosprávny Kraj,
Presov Self-Governing Region (PSK), focusing particularly on
the lagging...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 138050Date: January 1, 2019
The World Bank Group (WBG) is responding
to gender inequalities in Andean countries by improving
human endowments, removing constraints to more and better
employment,...
Type: ReportReport#: 137099Date: December 31, 2018
Closing the existing gender gaps will be
required to boost shared prosperity and maximize poverty
reduction efforts in Peru over the coming years. Gender
inequities...
Type: ReportReport#: 137103Date: December 31, 2018Author:
Paz,Carmen de ;
Muller,Miriam
The objective of the consultancy
services is to prepare studies that meet the environmental
and social safeguard policies of the World Bank and the
relevant laws and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 133120Date: December 20, 2018
The objective of the consultancy
services is to prepare studies that meet the environmental
and social safeguard policies of the World Bank and the
relevant laws and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 133123Date: December 20, 2018
The labor force of each industrial
country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education
and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD
countries and a standard...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8676Date: December 17, 2018Author:
Docquier,Frederic ;
Kone,Zovanga Louis ;
Mattoo,Aaditya ;
Ozden,Caglar
The World Bank’s Africa Gender
Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts impact evaluations of
development interventions and leads policy research to
generate evidence on how to...
This review of gender issues aims to
uncover the main gender gaps in the country, and to identify
potential policy recommendations that could help closing
them in the...
Type: ReportReport#: 137102Date: December 1, 2018Author:
De Paula,Carmen
The Bagan Disaster Risk Management Plan
(Bagan DRMP) is an initiative of the Government of Myanmar
(GOM) to: understand the risks facing the Bagan Cultural,
Heritage...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132874Date: December 1, 2018
Pakistan’s economy is presently growing
at just under 6 percent annually. The country’s GDP could
grow by 30 percent if women and men participated equally in
the workforce....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134147Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Kolb,Henriette ;
Hashimi, Fuad ;
Zehra Nasir, Rudaba ;
Essmat,Sammar ;
Nasir, Zehra ;
Laiq, Sara ;
Muhtashim,Zunee ;
Mirmotahari,Farzin ;
Daley,Sanola Alexia
As urban growth and development continue
at a breathtaking pace across the world, cities are
increasingly bearing the brunt of conflicts, crises and
disasters, which...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131856Date: November 1, 2018Author:
The World Bank ;
UNESCO
Land is a key economic resource
inextricably linked to access to, use of and control over
other economic and productive resources. Recognition of
this, and the increasing...
Type: ReportReport#: 130652Date: October 8, 2018Author:
FAO ;
World Bank ;
UN-Habitat
Gender-based occupational segregation –
where women are concentrated in low-paid or low-profit
sectors – is a non-trivial source of the gender wage gap
worldwide, accounting...
Type: BriefReport#: 130409Date: October 1, 2018Author:
Croke,Kevin ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Holla,Alaka
In Tanzania and Indonesia, we promoted
the expansion of mobile savings accounts among women
micro-entrepreneurs and provided them with business related
training. In...
Type: BriefReport#: 130417Date: October 1, 2018Author:
Bastian,Gautam Gustav ;
Bianchi,Iacopo ;
Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Jaluka,Tanvi ;
Knowles,James C. ;
Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C. ;
Kartaadipoetra,Firman Witoelar
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