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:
Action, Innovations for Poverty ;
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:
Action, Innovations for Poverty ;
World Bank
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
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:
Chatila, Mohamad ;
Lundvall, Jonna Maria ;
Nasr, Nour ;
Qarout, Dana Ghazi Nabeeh
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
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:
Action, Innovations for Poverty ;
World Bank
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:
Action, Innovations for Poverty ;
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:
Akala, Francisca Ayodeji ;
Gordillo-Tobar, Amparo Elena ;
Prata, Neia ;
Serpa, Nataliya De Francisco
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:
Action, Innovations for Poverty ;
World Bank
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
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are one of the major health and development challenges of our time, impacting not only higher income countries, but increasingly lower income ones as well. It is important...
Type: BriefReport#: 193501Date: February 29, 2024Author:
Haldane, Victoria ;
O’Keef, Philip
eVouchers can dramatically increase first-time use of improved inputs. Less than nine percent of smallholder farmers in Mozambique used improved seeds prior to the program. Among the ninety-one percent...
Type: BriefReport#: 192053Date: February 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
The adverse impact of Russia’s invasion on persons with disabilities is the main focus of this human development update. It looks at how the Government of Ukraine is strengthening the protection of vulnerable...
Type: BriefReport#: 188728Date: February 29, 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#: 187933Date: February 28, 2024Author:
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Cochinard, Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor, John ;
Kemigisha, Audrey ;
Machingauta, Cathrine ;
Mupere, Andrew ;
Ponzini, Giulia
The Lao economy continues to grapple with persistently high inflation, currency depreciation, and a growth slowdown. Economic growth remains significantly below pre-COVID-19 levels, undermined by macroeconomic...
Type: BriefReport#: 201858Date: February 28, 2024Author:
World Bank
Fragility, conflict, and violence pose significant barriers to economic development and poverty reduction in many countries. The quality infrastructure investment principles offer a strategic framework...
Type: BriefReport#: 187949Date: February 27, 2024Author:
World Bank
Thailand's economic recovery lagged further behind ASEAN peers as growth was a disappointing 1.7 percent in the fourth quarter and resulted in slower annual growth of 1.9 percent in 2023. Growth was hampered...
Type: BriefReport#: 187925Date: February 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report aims to narrow the knowledge gap on informal employment in Malaysia, with the ultimate objective of suggesting policy recommendations to strengthen the protection and productivity of informally...
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