• Rapid Social Response Program : Building Adaptive Social Protection Systems to Protect the Poor and Vulnerable
    The rapid social response (RSR) program, supports the world’s poorest by building effective and adaptive social protection systems to prepare and respond to urgent social needs for sustainable livelihoods...
    Type: Brief Report#: 145193 Date: January 1, 2020
  • IFC Women on Banking : Business Case Update No. 4 – Lower NPLs for Women Owned SMEs
    International Finance Corporation (IFC’s) annual survey of its banking clients continues to provide insight into the potential size and financial performance of women-owned small and medium enterprises...
    Type: Brief Report#: 172745 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Schnable, Jessica ; Pulizzi,Henry
  • Fertilizing the Nigerian Economy : An IFC Manufacturing Case Study
    Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, has abundant natural resources, especially in oil and gas. These two resources, when processed, form petrochemicals that are the building blocks of many consumer and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147767 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Schlorke,Sabine ; Schmidt,Olaf S.
  • Nonfarm Enterprises in Ethiopia : Are they Really Smoothing Consumption?
    In developing countries highly dependent on agriculture, non-farm enterprises (NFEs) are often lauded as income diversification opportunities, helping to smooth income in the farming off-seasons. Using...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147736 Date: January 1, 2020
  • Who will Churn? : Leveraging Predictive Modeling for Insights and Action on DFS Customer Inactivity
    To expand their customer base and to provide access to financial services, mobile network operators (MNOs) and financial institutions (FIs) have invested in digital channels and digital financial services...
    Type: Brief Report#: 149637 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Reitzug,Fabian ; Heitmann,Soren ; Ngahu,John Irungu
  • GIL Top Policy Lessons on Increasing Women’s Youth Employment
    Young women in Africa are less likely to be employed than young men, as a result of gaps in access to resources such as skills, time, and capital, and due to underlying social norms. Adolescence is a particularly...
    Type: Brief Report#: 144849 Date: January 1, 2020
  • Nudging to Save Lives
    The infographic is a behavioral science lens to disaster risk management in Haiti.
    Type: Brief Report#: 145071 Date: January 1, 2020
  • GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Women Entrepreneurs
    Women make up more than half of the total number of entrepreneurs in Africa. Yet, on average, for every dollar of profits men entrepreneurs earn, women entrepreneurs earn 66 cents. Supporting women to...
    Type: Brief Report#: 145520 Date: January 1, 2020
  • Location Matters : Welfare Among Urban and Rural Poor in Djibouti
    This note presents aspects of welfare of urban and rural poor in Djibouti. With only 15 percent of Djibouti's population, rural areas host about 45 percent of the country's poor. As such, these areas require...
    Type: Brief Report#: 145451 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Lara Ibarra,Gabriel ; Mendiratta,Vibhuti
  • Cambodia Nutrition Project
    Poor early nutrition has implications for a child’s brain development, health, and early learning. Preventing malnutrition therefore is an important precursor to allow children to benefit from a smart,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 145182 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Hyder,Ziauddin
  • GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls
    Adolescent girls face multiple challenges that restrict their horizons, often having to make decisions about employment and their fertility at an early age, and with limited formal education opportunities....
    Type: Brief Report#: 144824 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Ajayi,Kenny ; Delavelle,Fannie
  • Distributing Light and Livelihoods : Solar Products Create Economic Empowerment for Women in India
    India is the second most populous country in the world, with over 1.29 billion people, 66 percent of whom live in rural areas. Rural India faces various developmental challenges, such as lack of connectivity,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147679 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Joshi,Shalaka Rameshchandra ; Garg,Anjali
  • Improving Results of District Health Plans in Niger
    Type: Brief Report#: 145388 Date: January 1, 2020
  • Transit-Oriented Development for Sustainable Cities
    In large and dense cities, mass transit options along key corridors, supplemented by an effective bus system and good walkability to transit, are the best way to efficiently move large numbers of people,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 148840 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Ollivier,Gerald Paul ; Basat Unal,Basak Gunes
  • Anthropometric Data-Comparing ERSS and DHS
    In 2011-2012, Ethiopia’s central statistical agency, in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted the first wave of the Ethiopia rural socioeconomic survey (ERSS), which collects detailed data on household...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147731 Date: January 1, 2020
  • Use of Financial Services in Nigeria
    In 2010-2011, the National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the World Bank conducted the General Household Survey Panel (GHS-Panel), which collects detailed data on income. The GHS-Panel is a...
    Type: Brief Report#: 148050 Date: January 1, 2020
  • Gender-Diverse Agent Networks Foster Channel Activity and Financial Inclusion for Women : Insights from Gender-Lensed Data Analytics in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    Women’s financial inclusion is critical for advancing equity, reducing poverty and providing economic opportunities. Beyond the social benefits, there is a business case for providers to focus on women,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 149635 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Reitzug,Fabian
  • An EV Playbook for Electric Buses
    What are the critical questions to ask if one is contemplating an e-vehicle program? Based on the technical and business proposals International Finance Corporation (IFC) has seen so far, this report presents...
    Type: Brief Report#: 147769 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Graham,John Gregory
  • Improving Household Survey Data on Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
    The living standards measurement study-integrated surveys on agriculture (LSMS-ISA) project is an innovative household survey program established with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation....
    Type: Brief Report#: 147794 Date: January 1, 2020
  • The Fight against Corruption : Taming Tigers and Swatting Flies
    Corruption robs the public of precious resources, distorts the incentives to engage in productive activities, destroys confidence in public institutions, and spurs political instability. It disproportionately...
    Type: Brief Report#: 145050 Date: January 1, 2020 Author: Chuah,Lay Lian ; Loayza,Norman V. ; Myers,C. Bernard
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