• Creating space for interaction description of CACS project operations
    This note describes briefly how the Piloting Community Approaches in Conflict Situation (CACS) Project currently operates. As a learning activity, the project was designed deliberately to accommodate adjustments...
    Type: Brief Report#: 117181 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Tansanguanwong,Pamornrat ; Chockanapitaksa,Poonyanuch
  • Blockchain in development : part II - how it can impact emerging markets
    Blockchain is an innovative new technology with the power to disrupt existing economic and business models, as discussed in EMCompass note 40. Blockchain also has enormous potential for emerging markets....
    Type: Brief Report#: 118735 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Niforos, Marina
  • Promoting Coordination to Advance Employment Services for Youth
    In much of the world, today’s young people are failing to realize their aspirations. Youth unemployment rates hover around historical highs and hundreds of millions of youth are stuck in low paying, insecure,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 146607 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Goldin,Nicole Renee ; Adam, Jens ; Hoess, Heike
  • Linkages and Youth Employment : Opportunities in Extractives and Infrastructure
    Around the world, the talents and aspirations of hundreds of millions of young people are lost in a fog of unemployment, with few accessible quality jobs in sight. Youth are up to 4x more likely to be...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180910 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Goldin,Nicole Renee ; Nowakowska-Miller,Gosia ; Hay,Toniqua Belinda
  • Improving Board effectiveness
    The Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (OJK) introduced OJK regulation number 21/POJK.04/2015 concerning the implementation of the corporate governance guideline for public companies. Principles...
    Type: Brief Report#: 121267 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Razook,James Christopher ; Chaudhry,Mohsin Ali
  • Nepal - Can information and cash improve children's development
    In Nepal, researchers supported by the World Bank's Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund worked with the government to develop a program to inform pregnant women and mothers of young children on how to best...
    Type: Brief Report#: 117762 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Berman,Daphna ; Marcus,Aliza
  • Soft skills for hard constraints : evidence from high-achieving female farmers
    Most women farmers in developing countries engage in subsistence agriculture. Previous research highlights a variety of barriers hindering women’s ability to participate in the production and marketing...
    Type: Brief Report#: 117351 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Montalvao,Joao ; Frese,Michael Dr. ; Goldstein,Markus P. ; Kilic,Talip
  • Credit information and firms’ access to finance : evidence from an alternative measure of credit constraints
    This note analyzes the role of credit information in firms’ access to finance using a credit constraint variable from World Bank Enterprise Surveys and credit information data from Doing Business for 111...
    Type: Brief Report#: 117973 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Chavez Sanchez,Edgar Ivan
  • Insurance : supporting development goals and creating markets
    In the developing world, far too many people lack access to basic financial services,including insurance. This makes it even harder to escape from poverty, as unanticipated events can have a major impact....
    Type: Brief Report#: 122320 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Holliday,Susan Claire
  • Valuing the protection services of mangroves in the Philippines
    Mangroves and other coastal ecosystems act as natural defenses to reduce the risks from flooding, erosion and natural disasters. Yet the value of these habitats is often not fully accounted for in policy...
    Type: Brief Report#: 117757 Date: July 1, 2017
  • Enhancing the quality of public service delivery : insights from recent research
    Good policies are necessary but insufficient for delivering high quality public services. Building organizations capable of implementing increasingly complex policies at scale is crucial. But most developing...
    Type: Brief Report#: 117146 Date: July 1, 2017 Author: Woolcock,Michael
  • SABER in action : SABER service delivery
    SABER Service Delivery (SABER SD) is a new initiative built upon SABER policy and implementation tools and the World Bank’s Service Delivery Indicators (SDI), which was originally developed to assess the...
    Type: Brief Report#: 119785 Date: June 30, 2017
  • SABER engaging the private sector in education country report : Lagos, Nigeria 2014
    SABER-EPS research in Lagos found that access to primary education is not yet universal and that enrolments at the secondary level are very low. This report presents an analysis of how effectively the...
    Type: Brief Report#: 119789 Date: June 30, 2017 Author: Inuwa,Abubakar Tata
  • Economic impacts of child marriage : fertility and population growth brief
    Each day, more than 41,000 girls worldwide are married while still children, often before they may be physically and emotionally ready to become wives and mothers. Child marriage, defined as marriage or...
    Type: Brief Report#: 116830 Date: June 27, 2017 Author: Wodon,Quentin T. ; Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ; Yedan,Ali ; Edmeades, J.
  • Economic impacts of child marriage : women's health brief
    The brief summarizes results from an analysis of the impacts of child marriage on a few selected health outcomes, specifically early childbirths, maternal mortality and intimate partner violence. It does...
    Type: Brief Report#: 116834 Date: June 27, 2017 Author: Wodon,Quentin T. ; Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ; Savadogo,Aboudrahyme ; John,A. ; Petroni,S.
  • Economic impacts of child marriage : educational attainment brief
    The evidence base has long demonstrated that girls' education is among the most significant factors associated with age at marriage, with an extensive body of literature documenting lower levels of schooling...
    Type: Brief Report#: 116831 Date: June 27, 2017 Author: Wodon,Quentin T. ; Nguyen,Minh Cong ; Yedan,Ali ; Edmeades, J.
  • Economic impacts of child marriage : work, earnings and household welfare brief
    The brief summarizes results from an analysis of the impacts of child marriage on women's work (specifically, labor force participation and type of work held), earnings and productivity and household welfare....
    Type: Brief Report#: 116835 Date: June 27, 2017 Author: Wodon,Quentin T. ; Savadogo,Aboudrahyme ; Kes,A.
  • Economic impacts of child marriage : women's decision making and selected other impacts brief
    The brief summarizes results from an analysis on the impacts of child marriage on women's decision-making ability within the household, land ownership, knowledge of HIV/AIDS, and birth registrations. While...
    Type: Brief Report#: 116833 Date: June 27, 2017 Author: Wodon,Quentin T. ; Onagoruwa,Adenike Opeoluwa ; Savadogo,Aboudrahyme
  • Economic impacts of child marriage : child health and nutrition brief
    The brief summarizes results from an analysis of the impacts of child marriage on two health outcomes - under-five mortality and stunting - for young children. For the purposes of this brief, we focus...
    Type: Brief Report#: 116836 Date: June 27, 2017 Author: Wodon,Quentin T. ; Onagoruwa, N. ; John, N.
  • Economic impacts of child marriage : global synthesis brief
    While the proportion of girls marrying as children is declining globally, this decline is not occurring in all countries or taking place equitably within countries, nor is it happening at a sufficiently...
    Type: Brief Report#: 116832 Date: June 27, 2017 Author: Wodon,Quentin T. ; Male,Chata ; Nayihouba,Kolobadia Ada ; Savadogo,Aboudrahyme ; Yedan,Ali ; Edmeades,Svetlana ; Kes,A. ; Murithi, L. ; Steinhaus, M. ; Petroni,S.
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