The Code of Conduct for Board Officials,
as revised and adopted by the Executive Directors of the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the
International...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 131464Date: August 6, 2021
The objectives of the report are:
fundamental source of data and intelligence for negotiators
(in all areas); and critical to prepare the private sector
for the gradual...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 162443Date: August 3, 2021
This study focuses on: analyzing the
different international agreements regulating trade in
services in Africa ( covering at least one mode of supply);
determining whether...
Type: ReportReport#: 162377Date: August 2, 2021Author:
Echandi,Roberto
The Country Opinion Survey in Georgia
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Georgia perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168445Date: August 1, 2021Author:
Felzer,Sharon
Labor statistics provide essential
information for macroeconomic planning and policy
formulation on employment creation, vocational training,
income generation, and...
While COVID-19 has a relatively small
direct impact on infant mortality, the pandemic is expected
to indirectly increase mortality of this vulnerable group in
low-income...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 168211Date: August 1, 2021Author:
Shapira,Gil ;
De Walque,Damien B. C. M. ;
Friedman,Jed
Gender inequalities in the ownership,
control, and use of assets are a widespread and pervasive
development challenge. Persistent gender gaps remain in
women’s access...
Type: BriefReport#: 163873Date: August 1, 2021Author:
International Food Policy Research Institute ;
International Rescue Committee (IRC) ;
Oxford University ;
World Bank
Improving women’s agency is crucial for
advancing gender equality. Less than half of women in
Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia participate in making
decisions over...
Type: BriefReport#: 163874Date: August 1, 2021Author:
International Food Policy Research Institute ;
International Rescue Committee (IRC) ;
Oxford University ;
World Bank
Advances in agricultural data production
provide ever-increasing opportunities for pushing the
research frontier in agricultural economics and designing
better agricultural...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9745Date: July 29, 2021Author:
Carletto,Calogero ;
Dillon,Andrew S. ;
Zezza,Alberto
Recent debates surrounding the lagging
COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in low-income countries
center around vaccine supply and financing. Yet, relatively
little is known...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9739Date: July 28, 2021Author:
Kanyanda,Shelton Sofiel Elisa ;
Markhof,Yannick Valentin ;
Wollburg,Philip Randolph ;
Zezza,Alberto
Under the CRF, in 2020-2021, a desk
study was undertaken to better understand disability
inclusion gaps in disaster risk management (DRM) in nine
Caribbean countries....
Type: BriefReport#: 162223Date: July 28, 2021Author:
The World Bank ;
GFDRR
In the presence of credit constraints,
temporary migration abroad provides an effective strategy
for workers to accumulate savings to finance self-employment
when they...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9740Date: July 28, 2021Author:
Bossavie,Laurent Loic Yves ;
Gorlach,Joseph-Simon ;
Ozden,Caglar ;
Wang,He
Behaviorally informed messages have had
demonstrated success in increasing tax compliance in
multiple regional settings. In Indonesia, which has the
largest economy...
This report provides overview of status
of implementation of ongoing management action plans
prepared in response to Inspection Panel Investigation
Report as of June...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 162363Date: July 27, 2021
Local benefit sharing is an important
part of hydropower project operators’ support for the
development aspirations of project-affected communities. To
learn more about...
This paper analyzes the impact of
COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school
resilience. Using an individual fixed-effect linear
probability model on Nigeria data,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9736Date: July 26, 2021Author:
Dessy,Sylvain Eloi ;
Gninafon,Horace Mahugnon Akim ;
Tiberti,Luca ;
Tiberti,Marco
This note presents lessons learned from
the World Bank’s decentralization projects in four Indian
states – Karnataka, Bihar, Kerala and West Bengal – between
2006-2019...
Type: ReportReport#: 161731Date: July 16, 2021Author:
Stoykov,Petar Georgiev ;
Yilmaz,Serdar
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by David Malpass, President of the World Bank at
the Media Roundtable for East Asia and the Pacific on July
15, 2021. He...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 161721Date: July 15, 2021Author:
Malpass,David
This paper introduces the new Tax
Treaties Explorer dataset, developed with support from the
World Bank and the G-24, and illustrates its use for
research by tax treaty...
Type: ReportReport#: 161524Date: July 12, 2021Author:
Hearson,Martin ;
Carreras,Marco ;
Custers,Anna Louise
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