• Azerbaijan - Leveraging postal network for financial and social inclusion
    This paper provides a brief overview of the postal network reform in Azerbaijan and transformation of Azerpost, Azerbaijan’s state postal operator, into an efficient platform for basic financial services...
    Type: Brief Report#: 104793 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Prygozhyna, Anzhela ; Boon, Johannes P.
  • Identifying risks and guiding recovery efforts in Malawi
    In January 2015, Malawi experienced some of the most devastating flooding in its history. In the aftermath, the Government of Malawi conducted a post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA), with support from...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103261 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Rahman, Shaela
  • Shaping Ukraine’s recovery
    The ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine has resulted in instability and insecurity, heavily impacting the Ukrainian people with devastating social and economic consequences. Beyond the significant losses...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103268 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Rahman, Shaela
  • Supporting resilient recovery in Vanuatu after Cyclone Pam
    Located in the Pacific Ring of Fire and at the center of the Pacific cyclone belt, Vanuatu is exposed to one of the world’s highest levels of natural disaster risk. Following the destructive Tropical Cyclone...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103269 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Rahman, Shaela
  • Gender and indigenous institutions in agricultural water management
    The sustainability and poverty-reducing impacts of agriculture water development and water management projects are predicated upon inclusive institutions for infrastructure operation and maintenance and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103538 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Van Koppen, Barbara C.M. ; Kuriakose, Anne T.
  • Providing rural youth in Aceh with an alternative to forest crime : lessons from the community rangers program
    In the wake of the peace accord, the province experienced demands for a fast recovery of the economy and restored freedom of movement. This resulted in widespread illegal logging. The deforestation rate...
    Type: Brief Report#: 102511 Date: January 1, 2016
  • Good development to manage the impacts of climate change on poverty
    This policy note (and the report it is based on) brings together these two objectives, ending poverty and stabilizing climate change, and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together....
    Type: Brief Report#: 106201 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Hallegatte, Stephane ; Bangalore, Mook ; Bonzanigo, Laura ; Fay, Marianne ; Kane, Tamaro ; Narloch, Ulf Gerrit ; Rozenberg, Julie ; Treguer, David Olivier ; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien Camille
  • Nicaragua - Earthquakes and hurricanes risk profile
    The earthquake risk in Nicaragua is more significant than the hurricane risk. Annual average loss (AAL) from earthquakes is United States (U.S.) 89 million dollars (0.75 percent of gross domestic product...
    Type: Brief Report#: 114623 Date: January 1, 2016
  • Legal institutions and women’s employment
    This note explores the role of legal institutions in influencing women’s employment in private firms in developing countries. Both a holistic and specific approach to legal institutions is adopted. Regarding...
    Type: Brief Report#: 111250 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Amin, Mohammad ; Islam, Asif Mohammed
  • Brazil : Bahia Imaging Diagnostics
    The State Government of Bahia had been facing a number of challenges in delivering public health services, including rapidly growing demand for imaging tests, low bed turnovers and overcrowded hospitals....
    Type: Brief Report#: 132041 Date: January 1, 2016
  • Forever young? : South Africa country brief
    This brief is part of a series of outputs under the analytical work “Forever Young? Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa”. This Outputs include: Forever Young? South Africa Country...
    Type: Brief Report#: 108987 Date: January 1, 2016
  • Misallocation in Turkey's manufacturing sector
    Turkey’s economy expanded rapidly in the 2000s, and per capita income is now close to World Bank’s high income threshold of U$12,736. While part of this economic growth was attributable to human and physical...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103073 Date: January 1, 2016
  • New lessons from Australia to improve pension outcomes
    The Australian Government commissioned the independent Financial System Inquiry or ‘Murray Review’ to provide recommendations to improve private pensions (superannuation), as well as financial system resilience,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 104792 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Price, William Joseph
  • Leveraging surveys to strengthen local accountability and improve service delivery
    Recent work has highlighted the importance of understanding and actively engaging within the local context of governance and service delivery challenges to actually improve services to the poor. A number...
    Type: Brief Report#: 106250 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Alaref, Jumana Jamal Subhi ; Brixi, Hana ; Johns, Kimberly D. ; Recanatini, Francesca ; O'Meally, Simon Carl
  • Rooftop solar in Maldives: a World Bank guarantee and Scaling-up Renewable Energy Program (SREP) facilitate private investment in clean and affordable energy
    This guidance note talks about Rooftop solar in Maldives. The Maldives Ministry of Environment and Energy, with support from the World Bank and from the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP), a funding...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103935 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Kohli, Sandeep ; Braud, Arnaud
  • Beyond the river : a practitioner perspective
    The world’s longest river, the Nile, is shared by 10 countries and is characterized by a unique diversity of landscapes, ecosystems, cultures, and histories. Yet the flow of the river is relatively small...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103881 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Sadoff, Claudia Winkelman ; Grey, David R. C. ; Connors, Genevieve
  • Burundi - Francophone Africa results monitor : basic education
    The Francophone Africa education results monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa program for the analysis of education...
    Type: Brief Report#: 110762 Date: January 1, 2016
  • Tunisia - Program for international student assessment 2015
    Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) benchmarking tool to assess achievement and application of key knowledge and skills...
    Type: Brief Report#: 111454 Date: January 1, 2016
  • Impacting food security and nutrition outcomes through strengthening livelihoods : the experience from India livelihood projects
    While malnutrition affects households across the economic spectrum, the poorest bear the largest burden due to low calorie intake, less diverse diets, high incidence of stunting, as well as underweight...
    Type: Brief Report#: 106468 Date: January 1, 2016
  • Republic of Congo - Francophone Africa results monitor : basic education
    The Francophone Africa education results monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa program for the analysis of education...
    Type: Brief Report#: 110793 Date: January 1, 2016
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