The burden of unpaid care work,
including child and elder care, as well as care of family
members living with disabilities, disproportionately falls
on women and girls,...
Type: BriefReport#: 167275Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Mossman,Lindsay Suzanne
This paper utilizes firm survey data to
understand which formal private sector jobs are most at risk
from COVID-19 or similar future crises, based on empirical
evidence...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 167996Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Hatayama,Maho ;
Li,Yiruo ;
Osborne,Theresa Kay
While Saint Lucia shows a strong
performance in equality of economic opportunities, more
needs to be done to strengthen women’s voice and agency and
some disparities...
Type: BriefReport#: 168951Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Rubiano Matulevich,Eliana Carolina ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Countries in the Middle East and North
Africa region quickly introduced measures to limit the
spread of COVID-19 following the first confirmed cases.
These measures...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 167319Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Kamurase,Alex ;
Willenborg,Emma Schwirck
This paper reviews the role of Social
Protection and Labor in supporting both climate adaptation
and mitigation efforts. The Climate Crisis is impacting the
poor and...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 166634Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Rigolini,Jamele
Colombia has made progress towards
gender equality in health and education over the past
decades, but significant challenges remain in access to
economic opportunities....
Type: BriefReport#: 168984Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Rubiano Matulevich,Eliana Carolina ;
Galeano Servian,Diana Maria
Deep economic crises, the global
financial crisis and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
have put some strains on, and rekindled an older debate
about the costs and...
Type: BriefReport#: 166524Date: November 30, 2021Author:
Bandaogo,Mahama Abdel Samir Sidbewende
This paper quantifies the significance
and magnitude of the effect of measurement error in remote
sensing weather data in the analysis of smallholder
agricultural productivity....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9867Date: November 30, 2021Author:
Michler,Jeffrey David ;
Josephson,Anna Leigh ;
Kilic,Talip ;
Murray,Siobhan
Deep economic crises - the global
financial crisis and the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic - have put some strains on and rekindled an older
debate about...
Type: BriefReport#: 166500Date: November 30, 2021Author:
Bandaogo,Mahama Abdel Samir Sidbewende
Tajikistan has a lot to show in terms of
creating an enabling policy framework for gender equity, yet
large gendered challenges remain. The global COVID-19
outbreak...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 166199Date: November 30, 2021Author:
Rajabov,Alisher ;
Weber,Barbara ;
Seitz,William Hutchins
Can taking the perspective of an
out-group reduce prejudice and promote prosociality?
Building on insights from social psychology, this paper
studies the case of Colombian...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9866Date: November 30, 2021Author:
Chatruc,Marisol Rodríguez ;
Rozo Villarraga,Sandra Viviana
Using Integrated Public Use Microdata
Series–United States micro-census data from 1960 to 2010,
this paper examines whether racial and gender income
disparities beget...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9865Date: November 30, 2021Author:
Marrero,Gustavo Alberto ;
Rodríguez,Juan Gabriel ;
Van Der Weide,Roy
The informal sector is an important
source of livelihoods and jobs for a vast majority of people
in developing countries. However, there is concern that it
may undermine...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9868Date: November 30, 2021Author:
Amin,Mohammad
Countries are increasingly defining
health benefits packages (HBPs) as a way of progressing
towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Resources for
health are commonly...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 168222Date: November 29, 2021Author:
Fraser-Hurt,Nicole ;
Hou,Xiaohui ;
Wilkinson,Thomas David ;
Duran,Denizhan ;
Abou Jaoude, Gerard J. ;
Skordis, Jolene ;
Chukwuma,Adanna Deborah Ugochi ;
Pena,Christine Lao ;
Tshivuila Matala,Opope Oyaka ;
Prestidge,Marelize ;
Wilson, David P.
This study uses the Ethiopia Skills
Profile Survey (2017) to examine the gender differences in
livelihood opportunities and activities between refugees and
host communities....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9862Date: November 29, 2021Author:
Bogale,Yeshwas Admasu
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA)
new analysis, The Oil and Gas Industry in Energy
Transitions, found that the commitments from the Bank’s Zero
Routine Flaring...
Gender-based violence (GBV) has
substantial individual and collective costs that
disproportionately affect poorer women and girls. One woman
in three worldwide has experienced...
Type: BriefReport#: 166255Date: November 24, 2021Author:
Botea,Ioana Alexandra ;
Coudouel,Aline ;
Heinemann,Alessandra ;
Kuttner,Stephanie Anne
This paper examines the relationship
between urban agglomeration and firm innovation using a
recently developed dataset that consistently measures city
boundaries across...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9861Date: November 24, 2021Author:
Chen,Liming ;
Hasan,Rana ;
Jiang,Yi
High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS)
reveal that people in Sudan were aware of COVID-19 at the
start of the pandemic. Yet, one year later, preventive
measures were used...
While the distributional impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic have been well-documented in high-income
countries, studies in low- and middle-income countries have
been relatively...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9859Date: November 22, 2021Author:
Kim,Lydia Y. ;
Lugo,Maria Ana ;
Mason,Andrew D. ;
Uochi,Ikuko
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