Who is this note for? This Guidance note is for World Bank TTLs and Social Protection
practitioners to carry out country level diagnostic assessments of Parental Benefits using a
‘Parental Benefits Framework’...
Type: ReportReport#: 197533Date: February 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
Dear colleagues,
The Ministry of Labour, Pension System, Family and Social Policy, among other things, collects data, monitors the implementation and reports on the implementation of the process of deinstitutionalization,...
Type: ReportReport#: 197530Date: February 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
Since it became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century on May 20, 2002, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste has demonstrated commendable leadership in rebuilding the country’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 197339Date: February 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
This study examines development challenges and opportunities in the border provinces
through multiple analytical lenses. Our analysis begins with an assessment of border provinces'
economic potential using...
Type: ReportReport#: 197532Date: February 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
The topic of Pensions and Pension policy is often seen as too complicated by the
general public. Even professionals working in public policy oftentimes avoid getting
into this topic due to its technical...
Type: BriefReport#: 197534Date: February 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper takes a look at the problem of education, and shows that the educational systems in developing countries are all too often ill-conceived and are not adapted to their developmental needs. Among...
Type: Water ＆ Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 561789Date: February 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
What we studied and why? Research has consistently shown that removing gender barriers unlocks economic productivity, reduces poverty, deepens social cohesion, and enhances well-being for current and future...
Type: ReportReport#: 197536Date: February 26, 2025Author:
World Bank
Improving domestic revenue mobilization extremely important for Zimbabwe to create the fiscal space to absorb quasi-fiscal expenditures and support macroeconomic stability. In November 2023, Zimbabwe announced...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 197519Date: February 25, 2025Author:
Sharma, Dhiraj ;
Chingozha, Tawanda ;
Goldman, Maya Scott ;
Iyer, Indira ;
Steenbergen, Victor
This paper uses a multi-methodological approach to measure the fiscal costs of monetary and exchange rate policy distortions in Zimbabwe. It identifies three channels through which these policy distortions...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 197520Date: February 25, 2025Author:
Steenbergen, Victor ;
Pindiriri, Carren ;
Psillos, Jimmy ;
Kwaramba, Marko
This paper examines the relationship between violent conflict and the willingness of potential migrants to accept lower skilled work (occupational downgrading). The paper develops a theoretical model of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11075Date: February 25, 2025Author:
Ghorpade, Yashodhan ;
Imtiaz, Muhammad Saad
This sixth edition (issued February 2025) is effective from March 1, 2025. Procurement in Investment Project Financing (IPF) supports Borrowers to achieve value for money (VfM) with integrity in delivering...
Type: ReportReport#: 197185Date: February 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper takes a look at the problem of education, and shows that the educational systems in developing countries are all too often ill-conceived and are not adapted to their developmental needs. Among...
Type: Water ＆ Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 5610987Date: February 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper takes a look at the problem of education, and shows that the educational systems in developing countries are all too often ill-conceived and are not adapted to their developmental needs. Among...
Type: Water ＆ Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 561888Date: February 25, 2025Author:
World Bank ;
West, Jim ;
Lopez, Caroline ;
Bond, James ;
Smith, John ;
Taylor, Jim ;
Austin, Steve ;
Redford, Robert ;
Bedford, Denise ;
Arvand, Hossein ;
Chandrabose, Jeba Ponmalar ;
Krishnan, Sudha Bala ;
Sundaram, Sudha ;
Page, Raj Booking ;
Muthurajan, Raj Kumar ;
Avlash, Pankaj ;
Mendiratta, Pankaj ;
Gupta, Pankaj ;
Smith, James ;
Ghosh, Santu ;
Satana, Suha ;
Hosseini, Vahid
Morocco continues to face an extended drought, impacting rural labor markets. The share of Morocco’s territory under dry conditions, according to the Standard Precipitations Index (SPI), has decreased...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 197653Date: February 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper takes a look at the problem of education, and shows that the educational systems in developing countries are all too often ill-conceived and are not adapted to their developmental needs. Among...
Type: Water ＆ Sanitation Discussion PaperReport#: 5616666Date: February 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
This sixth edition (issued February 2025) is effective from March 1, 2025. Procurement in Investment Project Financing (IPF) supports Borrowers to achieve value for money (VfM) with integrity in delivering...
Type: ReportReport#: 197185Date: February 25, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Bosnia and Herzegovina assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how Bosnia and Herzegovina stakeholders perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic...
Type: ReportReport#: 197510Date: February 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
This study employs a cluster randomized controlled trial and administrative health center data to investigate the effects of authorizing community health workers to deliver a new generation of contraceptive...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11074Date: February 24, 2025Author:
Andreottola, Michele ;
Basenya, Olivier ;
Orozco Olvera, Victor Hugo ;
Reichert,Arndt ;
Spinola,Paula
The Committee commended the report assessing learning within World Bank lending operations, its high-quality analysis, focus on explicit and implicit knowledge, and welcomed its recommendations. There...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 203273Date: February 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
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