The first Sustainable Development Goal
to end poverty in all its forms by 2030 pledges to leave no
one behind. This commitment includes the over 80 million
people—one...
Type: BriefReport#: 168730Date: February 15, 2022Author:
Hanmer,Lucia C. ;
Klugman,Jeni ;
Ortiz,Elena Judith
Tournament competition is viewed as
motivating bureaucrats in promoting growth. This paper
examines how this incentive leads to economic performance
manipulation. Using...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9938Date: February 15, 2022Author:
Xu,Gang ;
Xu,L. Colin ;
Si,Ruichao
This brief has been produced under the
World Bank’s Indonesia Coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) observatory, a partnership among multiple global
practices at...
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
This report takes stock of educational
underachievement among boys and men, examines the evidence
on contributing factors, and explores what has been done to
address...
Type: ReportReport#: 168668Date: February 11, 2022Author:
Welmond,Michel J. ;
Gregory,Laura
While in many countries in Latin America
and Caribbean (LAC), the share of firms with a woman among
the principal owners has been increasing, female
entrepreneurs are...
Type: BriefReport#: 168057Date: February 10, 2022Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea
In Latin America and Caribbean (LAC),
gender gaps persist across multiple dimensions of job
quality and in earnings. Women tend to be concentrated in
less productive...
Type: BriefReport#: 168056Date: February 10, 2022Author:
Maquera Sardon,Daniela Andrea
This paper describes a randomized
experiment that used a sample of men and women who were
eligible for a vocational training program in the Republic
of Congo to test...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9934Date: February 9, 2022Author:
Gassier,Marine ;
Rouanet,Lea Marie ;
Traore,Lacina
Pandemic shocks disrupt human capital
accumulation through schooling and work experience. This
study quantifies the long-term economic impact of these
disruptions in...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9932Date: February 8, 2022Author:
Samaniego,Roberto ;
Jedwab,Remi Camille ;
Romer,Paul M ;
Islam,Asif Mohammed
Children in developing countries have
deep deficits in math and language. Personalized coaching
for teachers has been proposed as a way of raising teacher
quality and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9926Date: February 7, 2022Author:
Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel ;
Cruz-Aguayo,Yyannu ;
Intriago,Ruthy ;
Ponce,Juan ;
Schady,Norbert Rudiger ;
Schodt,Sarah
Teach ECE is a free classroom
observation tool that provides a window into one of the less
explored and more important aspects of a child’s education:
what goes on in...
The report focuses on sectoral choice as
one of the contributors to the gender gap in firm
performance. It explores the difference in profits among
female entrepreneurs...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168394Date: February 3, 2022Author:
Kalra,Naira ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Cucagna,Maria Emilia ;
Delavelle,Fannie ;
Iacovone,Leonardo ;
Johnson,Hillary C. ;
Gonzalez Martinez,Paula Lorena ;
Rubiano Matulevich,Eliana Carolina ;
Perova,Elizaveta ;
Pierotti,Rachael Susan ;
Roberts,Gareth Arthur ;
Trujillo,Jose Daniel
This brief focuses on indicators used by
World Bank projects to measure progress in closing gender
gaps in human endowments, economic opportunity, and voice
and agency,...
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
(FGM/C) is a development issue and a form of violence
against women and girls that affects at least 200 million
women in the world...
The objective of this report is to
provide a comprehensive data and evidence-based analysis of
gender-based sex selection (GBSS) in Vietnam in terms of
demographic projections...
Type: ReportReport#: 165429Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Buchhave,Helle ;
Karacsony,Sandor I.
Understanding the aspirations and goals
of the youth is essential to developing effective employment
policies. Policies should be designed to allow educational
and professional...
Type: ReportReport#: 167431Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Costa,Valentina ;
Contreras Gonzalez,Ivette Maria ;
Palacios-Lopez,Amparo
As schools reopened after 18 months, are
adolescent girls and boys back in school and engaged with
learning? Evidence from four surveys in Punjab, Pakistan.
With only 32 percent of working-age
women in the labor market, Guatemala is an
upper-middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of
female labor force participation...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9919Date: January 28, 2022Author:
Almeida,Rita Kullberg ;
Viollaz,Mariana
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