Learning from years of experience
confronting natural disasters, Japan has established itself
as a global leader in mainstreaming disaster risk management
(DRM) in development...
In recent years, more and more African
governments are looking to implement electronic-Government
Procurement (e-GP) solutions to address some of the
challenges associated...
Type: Country Procurement Assessment (CPAR)Report#: 168208Date: February 18, 2022Author:
Wu Chebili,Blandine Marie ;
La Cascia,Joseph Huntington ;
Collineau,Francois Xavier Yannick Marie ;
Salomon,Arnaud ;
Calvet,Baptiste ;
Moreau,Yoann
A growing understanding of the
importance of children’s earliest years has led
to an increasing desire to measure early childhood
development (ECD) outcomes....
Type: BriefReport#: 168832Date: February 18, 2022Author:
Pushparatnam,Adelle ;
Seiden,Jonathan Michael ;
Luna Bazaldua,Diego Armando
The World Bank Group developed the
Mozambique problue program (MozAzul) to provide
comprehensive technical assistance to the Government of
Mozambique on the blue economy...
Type: ReportReport#: 168749Date: February 16, 2022
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
The COVID-19 crisis requires policy
reforms on many fronts, from debt sustainability to
climate-smart recovery. This Research & Policy brief
draws on theory and empirical...
Type: BriefReport#: 168657Date: February 15, 2022Author:
Smets,Lodewijk ;
Record,Richard James Lowden
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
Institutional weaknesses limit the
capacity of local governments to support efficient
urbanization in developing countries. They also lead to the
emergence of large...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9936Date: February 10, 2022Author:
Rama,Martin G. ;
Li,Yue
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
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
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
Every year, shelter in the
Philippines is being lost to climate-related events
and other disasters. such as tropical storms, flooding,
earthquakes, and volcanic...
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
Building upon the literature on contact
theory, this paper explores the role of inter-group
interaction in shaping social cohesion between refugees and
host communities...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9917Date: January 27, 2022Author:
Betts,Alexander Milton Stedman ;
Stierna,Maria Flinder ;
Omata,Naohiko ;
Sterck,Olivier Christian Brigitte
Using representative survey data
including Iranians and Afghan refugees in Iran in 2011–2019,
this paper explores the unequal impact of macroeconomic
fluctuations due...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9915Date: January 27, 2022Author:
Hoseini,Mohammad ;
Dideh,Mahsa Jahan
While there have been welcome advances
in global evidence on and understanding of forced
displacement, research and analysis of the gendered
dimensions of displacement...
Type: ReportReport#: 168165Date: January 26, 2022Author:
Klugman,Jeni
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
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