This paper nowcasts poverty in India,
one of the countries with the largest population below the
international poverty line of $1.90 per person per day.
Because the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9931Date: February 7, 2022Author:
Edochie,Ifeanyi Nzegwu ;
Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel ;
Lakner,Christoph ;
Moreno Herrera,Laura Liliana ;
Newhouse,David Locke ;
Sinha Roy,Sutirtha ;
Yonzan,Nishant
Since its launch in January 2017 at the
first UN World Data Forum in South Africa, and its formal
adoption by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its
forty-eighth...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168312Date: February 3, 2022Author:
World Bank ;
UNSD ;
Paris21
Today, the world is faced with another
new and devastating pandemic that has left vast numbers of
bereaved children in its wake, at an unprecedented speed.
The COVID-19...
Type: ReportReport#: 161723Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Hillis, Susan ;
Unwin, Juliette ;
Cluver, Lucie ;
Sherr,Lorraine ;
Goldman,Philip S. ;
Rawlings,Laura B. ;
Bachman, Gretchen ;
Villaveces,Andres ;
Nelson,Charles Anthony ;
Green,Philip ;
Flaxman, Seth
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...
This paper argues that Economics can
learn from Cultural Anthropology and Qualitative Sociology
by drawing on a judicious mix of qualitative and
quantitative methods...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9918Date: January 28, 2022Author:
Rao,Vijayendra
Between 2015 and 2020, communities
across Iraq signed local peace agreements (LPAs) aimed at
setting the foundations for peaceful relations between
internally displaced...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9916Date: January 27, 2022Author:
Parry,Jacqueline Margarethe ;
Aymerich,Olga
After the 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish
conflict, 1.2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly displaced
from Turkey to Greece, increasing the host population by 20
percent within...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9912Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Murard,Elie
The paper examines the patterns of
economic integration of refugees in Switzerland, a country
with a long tradition of hosting refugees, a top-receiving
host in Europe,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9914Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Müller,Tobias ;
Pannatier,Pia ;
Viarengo,Martina Giorgia
In 2015, Germany welcomed close to one
million asylum seekers and refugees from Syria, Afghanistan,
the Western Balkans and elsewhere. Although the country was
often...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9913Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Albarosa,Emanuele ;
Elsner,Benjamin
Labor regulations are important
determinants of resource allocation, productivity, and labor
market outcomes. They can protect workers’ rights, enhance
job security,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168118Date: January 24, 2022Author:
Hatayama,Maho
This paper reports on a randomized
experiment conducted among Malawian agricultural households
to study nonclassical measurement error in self-reported
plot area and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9908Date: January 24, 2022Author:
Abay,Kibrom A. ;
Barrett,Christopher B. ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Moylan,Heather G. ;
Ilukor,John ;
Vundru,Wilbert Drazi
This study develops a computable general
equilibrium model for Nigeria, which accounts for
informality, tax evasion, and fuel smuggling. By studying
the impact of fuel...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9907Date: January 20, 2022Author:
Maruyama Rentschler,Jun Erik ;
Hosoe,Nobuhiro
Across Sub-Saharan African countries
with customary tenure systems and low levels of documented
land ownership, there are limited nationally representative
insights...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9900Date: January 13, 2022Author:
Hasanbasri,Ardina Roosiany ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Koolwal,Gayatri B. ;
Moylan,Heather G.
Efficient procurement procedures save
time and money, opening up much needed fiscal space, yet
modern public procurement can also serve as a tool for
achieving broader...
Type: Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR)Report#: 167960Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Fagan,Joseph ;
Piga,Gustavo ;
Trepte,Peter-Armin ;
Tiwana,Omar Hayat ;
Sharma,Vinay ;
Mozammel,Masud
Despite near-universal access to
financial services in advanced economies, financial
exclusion is stubbornly persistent in many emerging markets,
leaving huge swaths...
Type: BriefReport#: 168046Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Rose Innes,Cleo Elize ;
Andrieu,Jacqueline
This Guidance Note outlines good
practices on information-sharing across key areas in which
the Bank and the IMF interact. It is based on the existing
policies and legal...
Type: ReportReport#: 168946Date: December 31, 2021Author:
International Monitoring Fund ;
World Bank
This paper uses a “mystery client”
approach and visits the websites of national statistical
offices and international microdata libraries to assess
whether foundational...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9892Date: December 29, 2021Author:
Ekhator-Mobayode,Uche Eseosa ;
Hoogeveen,Johannes G.
This paper models an entrepreneur’s
choice between investing in a safe activity or experimenting
with a new risky one, and how much to invest in the
“entrepreneurial...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9890Date: December 20, 2021Author:
Maloney,William F. ;
Zambrano,Andrés
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