Low take-up of job offers and high early
turnover continue to affect employment of Ethiopia’s female
factory workers. Despite starting factory work around the
onset...
Type: BriefReport#: 169006Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Ajayi,Kehinde Funmilola ;
Buehren,Niklas ;
Cassidy,Rachel Margaret ;
Salcher,Isabelle
The fourth round of data collection on
monitoring of socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19
(coronavirus) pandemic in Djibouti took place between March
11 and April...
Type: ReportReport#: 164943Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Malaeb,Bilal ;
Duplantier,Anne Marie ;
Gansey,Romeo Jacky ;
Konate,Sekou Tidani ;
Abdoulkader,Omar
The ultimate objective of gender
analysis is to inform programs and policies that contribute
to closing persistent gaps. However, the specific impact of
gender analysis...
Type: BriefReport#: 164877Date: October 1, 2021Author:
De Paz Nieves,Carmen ;
Muller,Miriam
Despite legal and social advances in the
past two decades, sexual orientation and gender identity
(SOGI) people continue to face widespread discrimination and
violence...
Type: PublicationReport#: 164560Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Cortez,Clifton John ;
Arzinos,Ioannis ;
De La Medina Soto,Christian
Motivating service providers to improve
the quality of public service delivery is a major
development challenge across the globe. This is particularly
relevant for women,...
Type: BriefReport#: 165300Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Delavallade,Clara Anne
This IFC study looks at the barriers and
opportunities for refugee women in Jordan and Lebanon to
engage in the digital economy. The study was conducted in
mid-2020,...
Type: ReportReport#: 165158Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Van Daele,Elvira ;
Richardson,Eleonore Ann ;
Rasavac Avdagic,Selma
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of
the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World
Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on
research by the team,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 165778Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Bruhn,Miriam ;
Cull,Robert J. ;
Zia,Bilal Husnain ;
Xu,L. Colin
Identifying opportunities to increase
agricultural productivity and incomes is an important
priority for rural development. Progress toward poverty
reduction continued...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 165160Date: October 1, 2021
This paper studies gender discrimination
in hiring through an experiment that randomly assigned
fictitious resumes to job advertisements in Uzbekistan. The
experiment...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9784Date: September 24, 2021Author:
Muradova,Sevilya ;
Seitz,William Hutchins
The paper, which serves as a gender
background paper for the 2021 Malawi Poverty Assessment, is
structured as follows. It first presents the data and
empirical strategy....
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 164210Date: September 23, 2021Author:
Gross,Melanie ;
Muller,Miriam ;
Caruso,German Daniel ;
Cardona Sosa,Lina Marcela
As the world continues to grapple with
the global pandemic, the road from crisis to resilience
remains long and uncertain. For the most vulnerable
populations in developing...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 164217Date: September 21, 2021
Women are underrepresented in jobs in
natural resources sectors. For example, only 5 to 10 percent
of those employed in large-scale mining projects globally
are women....
Type: BriefReport#: 163971Date: September 14, 2021
Among unemployed youth in South Africa,
approximately 50 percent have not completed secondary
education and have limited or no work experience. In this
context, reliable...
Type: BriefReport#: 163940Date: September 14, 2021
The Solomon Island’s Community Access
and Urban Services Enhancement (CAUSE) project, with the
support of UFGE, undertook a study which identified a set
of 18 recommendations...
Type: BriefReport#: 163939Date: September 14, 2021
The history of Iraq over the past decade
is a stark example of increasing vertical and horizontal
inequalities, preceding and following a period of violent
conflict....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9773Date: September 13, 2021Author:
Ansar,Saniya ;
Celiku,Bledi ;
Klapper,Leora ;
Mansour,Wael
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),
which began as a health crisis in early 2020, has rapidly
evolved to become an unprecedented economic crisis affecting
global, national,...
Type: ReportReport#: 159096Date: September 9, 2021Author:
Apfalter,Stefan ;
Ebrahimi,Sarah Anne ;
Geaneotes,Alexis ;
Gurgel,Anita Amaral ;
Hameed,Shabnam ;
Holliday,Susan Claire ;
Hommes,Martin ;
Houngbonon,Georges Vivien ;
Le Mottee,Sherrilee Ann ;
Manenti,Giorgio ;
Mekharat,Nisachol ;
Torres Pereira Mendes,Joaquim Miguel ;
Mignano,Kathleen Gaertner ;
Nana,Ibrahim ;
Nasir,Rudaba ;
Peeters,Johanna Sophie ;
Schmitt,Maud Louise Anne ;
Sherchan,Prapti ;
Starnes,Susan K. ;
Strusani,Davide ;
Toba,Natsuko ;
Traore,Nouhoum-000531164 ;
Verma,Priyanka ;
Volk,Ariane Tamara
Some of the findings of round 4 of the
Georgia High Frequency Survey (GHFS) include the following:
COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases have been concentrated in
densely populated...
The Philippines increasingly emphasizes
lifelong learning and skills mobility for labor productivity
as an integral part of the country’s growth strategy. The
Philippine...
In Western Uganda, women farmers and
their households were facing widespread agricultural and
non-agricultural income shocks in September 2020, indicating
a protracted...
Type: BriefReport#: 165302Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Sharma,Ambika ;
Gruver,Ariel Rose ;
Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C. ;
O'Sullivan,Michael B.
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