This paper examines the impact of livelihood diversification on food insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis uses household panel data from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in which the first...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11014Date: January 7, 2025Author:
Furbush,Ann M. ;
Josephson,Anna ;
Kilic, Talip ;
Michler,Jeffrey D.
The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11015Date: January 7, 2025Author:
Josephson,Anna ;
Michler,Jeffrey D. ;
Kilic, Talip ;
Murray, Siobhan
This report presents technical recommendations for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s Long-Term Low-Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) and its implementation. An LT-LEDS is a strategic document...
Type: ReportReport#: 197055Date: January 7, 2025Author:
World Bank
Workers have the right to take up any job offer in their country of citizenship but not to rent out that right. This paper shows that relaxing this restriction using a two-sided competitive market in work...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11017Date: January 7, 2025Author:
Do, Quy-Toan ;
Lokshin, Michael M. ;
Ravallion,Martin
This paper studies how windfalls from agriculture influence demand for electrification in a developing country. Leveraging two decades of administrative data on the universe of electricity grid customers...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11019Date: January 7, 2025Author:
Dabalen, Andrew L. ;
Mensah, Justice Tei ;
Nsabimana,Aimable ;
Nshunguyinka,Alexandre
High aggregate levels of wildlife consumption in Central African cities may be depleting wildlife populations. This study explores the impacts of demand and supply-side interventions on wild meat consumption...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11016Date: January 7, 2025Author:
Cisse,Abdoulaye ;
Englander, Gabriel ;
Ingram,Daniel J.
This paper studies the welfare impacts of agricultural shocks on households with detailed heterogeneity, by taking consumption, land, and labor allocation choices into account. The underlying model is...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11018Date: January 7, 2025Author:
Artuc, Erhan ;
Porto, Guido ;
Rijkers, Bob
This report contains the World Bank Group Boards’ updated calendar for the period from November 2024 to February 2025 specifying the Boards’ engagements, such as meetings and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 196088Date: January 6, 2025Author:
World Bank
The brief is the first in a series of five briefs that investigate different aspects of the jobs and economic recovery process from the COVID 19 pandemic Nepal. It uses data from the two rounds of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 183559Date: January 2, 2025Author:
World Bank
Montenegro is a small country in the Western Balkans that has significantly improved the living standards of its people in the past decade, but this has come with environmental and health impacts that...
Type: ReportReport#: 194437Date: January 2, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS), first conducted in 1995-96, marked a significant step in objectively measuring Nepal's living standards and poverty levels. The survey covered a wide range of...
Type: ReportReport#: 196037Date: January 2, 2025Author:
World Bank
The focus of this Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) is to review key policy and reform options for Equatorial Guinea to build the foundations for renewed, diversified, and more inclusive growth. The CEM...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 197516Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Doumbia, Djeneba ;
Kante, Cheick Fantamady ;
Mahajan, Sandeep ;
Utz, Robert Johann ;
Rontoyanni, Clelia
In the 1990s, the World Bank and other development financiers supported a power sector reform framework emphasizing restructuring or unbundling of utilities, creation of regulators, private sector participation...
Type: ReportReport#: 200278Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Gupta, Amol ;
Loew, David ;
Bui, Isabelle
This World Bank in India newsletter for January 2025 includes the following sub-headings: women entrepreneurs in Rural Tamil Nadu; transforming northern India’s logistics and connectivity; some recent...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 197058Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
Lebanon’s education system has faced severe disruptions since 2019, leading to significant learning losses. A recent pilot tested the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach, which groups students...
Type: ReportReport#: 196919Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Pushparatnam, Adelle ;
Guedira, Fatine ;
El Franji, Nadine Joseph
Hundreds of millions of young people in the Global South face uncertain futures due to poor access to quality education, inadequate skills, and limited employment opportunities. By 2033, the Global South...
Type: ReportReport#: 197337Date: January 1, 2025Author:
Zini, Michele Davide ;
Rigolini, Jamele ;
Koettl, Johannes ;
Carranza, Eliana ;
Marguerie, Alicia C. ;
Mansour, Mohamad Hussein ;
Runk, Alina Zoe
This options paper aims to highlight select evidence-based and innovative options for potential
programming that could unlock women’s and girls’ empowerment through the World Bank’s portfolio in Somalia....
Type: ReportReport#: 196345Date: January 1, 2025Author:
World Bank
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