Migration in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region is growing in importance, shaped by workers seeking opportunities abroad and governments implementing policies to meet skills needs and stimulate economic...
Type: ReportReport#: 197004Date: September 24, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Women’s Economic Empowerment in Bangladesh: An Evidence-Guided Toolkit for More Inclusive Policies report provides an examination of gender disparities in economic empowerment in Bangladesh. It aims...
Type: ReportReport#: 204690Date: September 24, 2025Author:
Vyborny, Katherine Helen Anne ;
Aggarwal, Pulkit ;
Amaral, Sofia ;
Gaddis, Isis ;
Manzur, Shirleen ;
Pereira, Isabela Salgado-Silva ;
Swanson, Kendal Marie ;
Tran, Viet
The occurrence of unexpected shocks, such as natural disasters, that destroy physical capital could affect the perception of returns to investment in human capital. This paper tests this hypothesis using...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11220Date: September 24, 2025Author:
Doumbia, Macoura ;
Walque, Damien de
Technology has continually reshaped work, driving economic, social, and political change across human history, and novel AI technologies are the latest in this trajectory. From the Neolithic Revolution...
Type: ReportReport#: 204668Date: September 23, 2025Author:
Cheng, Calvin ;
Chong, Hanson ;
Dornan, Matthew ;
Binti Jasmin, Alyssa Farha
This paper estimates the gender gap in the performance of firms in Peru using representative data on both formal and informal firms. On average, informal female-led firms have lower sales, labor productivity,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS111218Date: September 23, 2025Author:
Celiku, Bledi ;
Ubfal, Diego Javier ;
Valdivia, Martin
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) risks in energy operations arise across both the demand and supply sides of the sector. On the demand side, limited access to energy, particularly lighting and clean...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 204682Date: September 23, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper studies the impact of geopolitical risks on international trade, using the Geopolitical Risk (GPR) index of Caldara and Iacoviello (2022) and an empirical gravity model. The impact of spikes...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11219Date: September 23, 2025Author:
Mulabdic, Alen ;
Yotov, Yoto V.
The vision for the ASM Academy is to create a place where miners will hear miners’ voices and recognise the questions and challenges that miners face and the practical solutions they are proposing. Miners...
Type: ReportReport#: 204656Date: September 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
Newspapers often tell the story of the worst side of safety and health of small-scale miners. But as we asked for stories from miners across Delve Exchange, we were inspired by the many ways our fellow...
Type: ReportReport#: 204658Date: September 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper quantifies the short-run economic impact of 21 Atlantic hurricanes on U.S. local business activity from 2017 to 2024 using anonymized Mastercard transaction data aggregated by ZIP code. On average,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11217Date: September 22, 2025Author:
Agarwal, Sumit ;
Choudhury, Smarajit Paul ;
Fan, Mingxuan ;
Klapper, Leora
The Sahel — considered to include Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal for the purpose of this study — is a complex environment with high rates of poverty and gender inequality which...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 204651Date: September 22, 2025Author:
Seibold, Juliette Oriane Barbara
The increasing impacts of climate change on urban areas demand comprehensive citywide resilience solutions and a systems-level approach that takes into account the interconnectivity of urban planning,...
Type: ReportReport#: 204667Date: September 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
The pace of gender-related legal reforms is also slowing with economies in 2022 adopting the fewest gender-related reforms in more than two decades. The World Bank’s forthcoming Gender Strategy 2024–2030...
The 2024 elections arrived at a pivotal moment for Ghana. While the country witnessed substantial progress in economic growth, poverty reduction, and human development in the first decade of the twenty-first...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 204637Date: September 22, 2025Author:
Curto, Stefano ;
Keane, Michelle C.
Taking care of the environment is important because mining can harm the land, water, and air if it's not done properly. Fortunately, many artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) are now using better methods...
Type: ReportReport#: 204660Date: September 22, 2025Author:
World Bank
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