Tourism is growing faster than ever
before in emerging and developing economies. In just 10
years, the tourism landscape has changed completely. Digital
platforms are...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 130052Date: September 1, 2018Author:
Salem,Talia Malvina ;
Twining-Ward,Louise D
Sri Lanka is a lower-middle income
country with an impressive record of achievementsin economic
and human development. Despite 26 years of conflict, Sri
Lanka, an island...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 130655Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Aturupane,Harsha ;
Shojo,Mari ;
Ebenezer,Roshini Mary
Central America lags the rest of Latin
America in outcomes related to women. The countries of
Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129492Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Sousa,Liliana Do Couto ;
Muller,Miriam
Two thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s
citizens depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Women
make up a large part of the agricultural workforce: in the
Democratic...
The Gender Theme of the ABP II carries
out comprehensive data - and evidence-based analyses on
emerging challenges to gender equality and provides support
to policy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 128839Date: July 18, 2018Author:
Cunningham,Wendy ;
Alidadi,Farima ;
Buchhave,Helle
ESS9 recognizes that strong domestic
capital and financial markets and access to finance are
important for economic development, growth and poverty
reduction. The Bank...
ESS 8 recognizes that cultural heritage
provides continuity in tangible and intangible forms between
the past, present and future. People identify with cultural
heritage...
This ESS recognizes that Indigenous
Peoples/Sub-Saharan African Historically Underserved
Traditional Local Communities have identities and
aspirations that are distinct...
Using a rich data set of primary school
students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant
concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement
of natives....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8492Date: June 25, 2018Author:
Bossavie,Laurent Loic Yves
This Policy Research Report (PRR),
Moving for Prosperity: Global Migration and Labor Markets,
is an attempt to address this tension between the academic
research and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 127628Date: June 14, 2018Author:
Ozden,Caglar ;
Wagner,Mathis Christoph ;
Packard,Michael Minh Tam
This Performance and Learning Review
(PLR) summarizes progress in the implementation of the World
Bank Group (WBG) Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for the
Republic...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 123665Date: June 8, 2018
Languages use different systems for
classifying nouns. Gender languages assign many -- sometimes
all -- nouns to distinct sex-based categories, masculine and
feminine....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8464Date: June 4, 2018Author:
Jakiela,Pamela ;
Ozier,Owen
Gender equality is a core development
objective in its own right, and it is also smart economics.
Greater gender equality pays off by helping advance a host
of development...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126843Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Alidadi,Farima ;
Buitrago Hernandez,Sandra Paola ;
Nozaki,Natsuko Kiso ;
Muller,Miriam
The development objective of the
Acceleration Program of Agrarian Reform and One Map Policy
Implementation Project for Indonesia is to establish clarity
on actual land...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 126846Date: June 1, 2018
Uruguay's export-led growth model
depends heavily on its rich base of natural assets. Although
innovative environmental initiatives have been implemented
and boosted...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129493Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Criscuolo,Alberto ;
Cuomo,Francesco
The authors review the patterns of
migration policy around the world using systematic
information collected by the United Nations between 1976 and
2013. The authors...
Type: ReportReport#: 128287Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Facchini,Giovanni ;
Facchini,Anna Maria Mayda
Asia and the Pacific region experienced
a dramatic rise in migration during the last few decades.
The wave of migration increased from the 1970s when the oil
price surge...
Type: PublicationReport#: 130000Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Carrasco,Bruno ;
Ratha,Dilip K. ;
De,Supriyo ;
Murata,Akira ;
Ozaki,Mayumi ;
Patti,James P. ;
Plaza,Sonia ;
Sioson,Erica Paula ;
Yi,Soonhwa ;
Yousefi,Seyed Reza
In an environment of changing commodity
prices, complex socio-environmental dynamics, and increasing
interest in sustainability, oil, gas and mining (OGM)
companies...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 128789Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Eftimie,Adriana Maria ;
Heller,Katherine C.
This first note in the series on the
cost of gender inequality focuses on the losses in national
wealth due to gender inequality in earnings. There is a
substantial...
Type: BriefReport#: 126579Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Wodon,Quentin T. ;
Leroy De La Briere,Benedicte
In a resilient city, cultural heritage
assets (both tangible and intangible) are integrated into
the city disaster risk management (DRM) mechanism; historic
areas or...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 125997Date: May 1, 2018
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