IFC’s Impact Notes are a flexible financial vehicle that offers retail investors in the United States an opportunity to buy triple-A rated IFC bonds and support private sector development in emerging markets...
Type: BriefReport#: 188298Date: March 13, 2024Author:
World Bank
International Finance Corporation (IFC) launched its Discount Note Program in 2009 to provide additional funding and liquidity management in support of certain trade finance and supply chain initiatives....
Type: BriefReport#: 188296Date: March 13, 2024Author:
World Bank
International Finance Corporation (IFC) raises funds through capital markets to drive inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries while maintaining the triple-A credit ratings. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 188293Date: March 13, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Short Note aims to provide some practical tips for practitioners like World Bank task team leaders in implementing online gig work programs to enable vulnerable populations - such as youth, women,...
Type: BriefReport#: 188239Date: March 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
Access to quality diagnostics is essential for both providing effective health care to individuals and advancing broader health policy objectives, such as universal health coverage. For patients, diagnostics...
Type: BriefReport#: 188184Date: March 8, 2024Author:
Bachongy, Karine ;
Brocard, Eva Marie Chloe ;
Douss, Carla Kamal Fawzi ;
Nikiema, Rabietou ;
Porgo, Teegwende Valerie ;
Quansah Amissah, Richard ;
Voncina, Luka ;
Zanamwe, Mazvita
This brief discusses results from the survey of the youth population in Uganda using results from the Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS). UHFPS has been collected by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics...
Type: BriefReport#: 188472Date: March 2, 2024Author:
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Cochinard, Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor, John ;
Audrey Kemigisha ;
Andrew Mupere ;
Ponzini, Giulia
Ensuring a safe environment for children to learn is more than a mission for the World
Bank. It is an urgent imperative. In large part, the success of our FCV Strategy is predicated on education. There...
Type: BriefReport#: 189389Date: March 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Beginning in 2012, Ethiopia’s first ever women-entrepreneur focused line of credit was established through the Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP). WEDP provides finance and business training...
Type: BriefReport#: 188714Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Buehren, Niklas ;
Papineni, Sreelakshmi ;
Rawlins, Marlon Rolston ;
Weis, Toni Johannes
Cash transfers in general appear to be more effective than in-kind transfers or vouchers at improving a range of outcomes, including decreasing monetary poverty, improving health and nutrition, and increasing...
Type: BriefReport#: 191207Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
Action, Innovations for Poverty
The World Bank developed the EdTech Readiness Index (ETRI) to support countries in monitoring the extent to which technology supports teaching and learning processes within traditional school environments...
Type: BriefReport#: 188649Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), in collaboration with the World Bank, officially launched the Uganda High Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS) to track the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Type: BriefReport#: 192574Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Cochinard, Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor, John ;
Kemigisha, Audrey ;
Mupere, Andrew ;
Ponzini, Giulia
Cash-transfer payment mechanisms abound and have diversified greatly in recent years. Payments can be made manually (in person) on a set schedule at a brick-and-mortar location such as a bank, post office,...
Type: BriefReport#: 191203Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
Action, Innovations for Poverty
Female labor force participation in Mashreq countries is notably low due to a range of structural constraints that are further exacerbated by gender norms. This knowledge brief highlights lessons learned...
Type: BriefReport#: 190786Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Qarout, Dana Ghazi Nabeeh ;
Lundvall, Jonna Maria ;
Nasr, Nour ;
Chatila, Mohamad
A growing body of evidence finds that cash transfers reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in various contexts, even when the cash transfer was not designed to do so. The effects are comparable with standalone...
The World Bank developed the EdTech Readiness Index (ETRI) to support countries in monitoring the extent to which technology supports teaching and learning processes within traditional school environments...
Type: BriefReport#: 188648Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Improvements in the health outcomes of women, young girls, and children will be key to Rwanda attaining three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) focused on good health and wellbeing (SDG3),...
Type: BriefReport#: 189375Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Gordillo-Tobar, Amparo Elena ;
Prata, Neia ;
Akala, Francisca Ayodeji ;
Serpa, Nataliya De Francisco
To help policy makers make practical programmatic design choices, this series summarizes recent literature on cash transfers and explains how the design of cash transfer programs can affect outcomes. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 191205Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
Action, Innovations for Poverty
Studies from 2016 on demonstrate that the impact of cash transfers varies based on duration, depending on whether they are distributed over a short (24 months or less) or long (more than 24 months) period....
Type: BriefReport#: 191201Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
Action, Innovations for Poverty
The World Bank developed the EdTech Readiness Index (ETRI) to support countries in monitoring the extent to which technology supports teaching and learning processes within traditional school environments...
Type: BriefReport#: 188650Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This brief examines the effects of varying cash transfer values on outcomes by reviewing the evidence since 2016, inclusive of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the purposes of this brief and based on the sample...
Type: BriefReport#: 191202Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
Action, Innovations for Poverty
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