It is now clear that a narrow focus on
the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) is insufficient
to achieve humanity’s aspirations for sustainable
prosperity. Well-functioning...
Type: PublicationReport#: 165689Date: November 9, 2021Author:
Cust,James Frederick ;
Herrera Garcia,Luis Diego ;
Lange, Glenn-Marie ;
Naikal,Esther G. ;
Peszko,Grzegorz ;
Agarwala, Matthew ;
Awe,Yewande Aramide ;
Beck,Michael William ;
Chepeliev, Maksym ;
Chonabayashi,Shun ;
Golub,Alexander Alexandrovich ;
Gratcheva,Ekaterina M. ;
Hamadeh,Nada ;
Ilas,Mihai Andrei ;
Inon,Javier Gustavo ;
Karakulah,Kenan ;
Lam, Vicky W. Y. ;
Mandon,Pierre Jean-Claude ;
Menendez, Pelayo ;
Rissanen,Marko Olavi ;
Rivera Ballesteros,Alexis ;
Smith, Robert ;
Sumaila,Rashid Ussif ;
Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique ;
Wang,Dieter ;
Zenghelis,Alexis Dimitri
International commodity price shocks may
have large impacts on producers in developing countries. In
this paper, a unique household panel data from Ethiopia is
utilize...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9839Date: November 5, 2021Author:
Kebede,Hundanol Atnafu
This report documents and explores the
early economic impacts of COVID-19 (coronavirus) on
households and businesses in Vietnam, leveraging unique
information collected...
Type: ReportReport#: 164806Date: November 5, 2021Author:
World Bank
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) present a
powerful and important policy lever for many governments to
implement reforms to achieve their ambitious climate
mitigation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 164952Date: November 5, 2021Author:
De Kleine Feige,Annette I.
A key challenge with poverty measurement
is that household consumption data are often unavailable or
infrequently collected or may be incomparable over time. In
a development...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9838Date: November 5, 2021Author:
Dang,Hai-Anh H. ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Carletto,Calogero ;
Abanokova,Kseniya
This paper examines the drivers of
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and tests various means of
increasing people’s willingness to receive a COVID-19
vaccine. The study draws...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9837Date: November 5, 2021Author:
Hoy,Christopher Alexander ;
Wood,Terence ;
Moscoe,Ellen Elizabeth
The Management Action Record (MAR) is a
key element of the World Bank Group’s
accountability framework. The MAR supports accountability in
the follow-up of Independent...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 164302Date: November 4, 2021
Lack of access to water supply and
sanitation (WSS) constitutes a public health, economic, and
environmental emergency across the developing world. Urgent
action is...
The affordability of nutritious diets is
increasingly used as a metric of how well a food system
provides access to nutritious diets for all. Recent work on
least-cost...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9834Date: November 3, 2021Author:
Schneider,Kate ;
Christiaensen,Luc ;
Webb,Patrick J. ;
Masters,William Alan
This policy brief summaries the findings
from a representative phone survey and an online survey on
Facebook about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Papua New Guinea.
In January 2021, the second wave of the
Somalia high frequency phone survey has been administered,
calling 2,811 households to see the impact of Coronavirus
disease...
This paper conducts a large, narrative
literature review of interventions that seek to (1) increase
educational attainment, (2) delay childbearing, and/or (3)
delay...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9827Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Bergstrom,Katy Ann ;
Ozler,Berk
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank Group President David Malpass~^!!^s in an
interview with Aaron Heslehurst on BBC World on November 1,
2021. He spoke about...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 165806Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Malpass,David
The framework presented in the report is
intended to bridge the gap between what sovereign investors
will view as appropriately ambitious actions and what
issuing countries...
Type: ReportReport#: 167699Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Flugge,Mark Lester ;
Mok,Rachel Chi Kiu ;
Stewart,Fiona Elizabeth
This paper introduces a micro-founded
methodological framework to estimate the housing deficit
across and within emerging economies. It introduces the
Adequate Housing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9830Date: November 1, 2021Author:
Behr,Daniela Monika ;
Chen,Lixue ;
Goel,Ankita ;
Haider,Khondoker Tanveer ;
Singh,Sandeep - CSEFI ;
Zaman,Asad
The advancement of technology and the
exponential growth of data are providing the opportunity to
Low Income Countries and Lower Middle-Income Countries to
leapfrog...
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