The labor market constitutes a major component of any economy because it is intricately linked to markets for capital, goods, and services. The availability of both a household-level survey conducted by...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 192595Date: July 29, 2024Author:
World Bank
Botswana’s fast diamond-based growth, significant public investment, and political stability catapulted it into a stable upper-middle-income country and improved living standards. Despite its income status,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 192749Date: July 26, 2024Author:
World Bank
This guidance note provides recommendations for developing gender factbooks as a channel to effectively communicate gender statistics, which serves as a critical input to designing and monitoring policies...
Type: ReportReport#: 186752Date: July 26, 2024Author:
Anderson, Jessica ;
Anna Tabitha Bonfert ;
Heather G. Moylan ;
Miriam Muller
Côte d’Ivoire has experienced almost a decade of macroeconomic stability prior to the COVID pandemic. Recent economic shocks, including COVID and the war in Ukraine, have triggered a strong fiscal response....
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: AUS0003539Date: July 26, 2024Author:
Nathalie Picarelli ;
Solene Rougeaux
Empirical evidence on the potential impacts of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is mostly focused on high-income countries. In contrast, little is known about the role of this technology on the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10863Date: July 26, 2024Author:
Gmyrek,Pawel ;
Hernan Winkler ;
Garganta,Santiago
This guidance note provides recommendations on how to operationalize methodological advances for indicators related to women’s economic empowerment in survey design and implementation, focusing on three...
Type: ReportReport#: 175574Date: July 26, 2024Author:
Anna Tabitha Bonfert ;
Heather G. Moylan ;
Miriam Muller ;
Talip Kilic
The training is based on research funded by the UK Government-UNHCR-World Bank Building the Evidence on Forced Displacement (BEoFD) research program and organized by BEoFD in collaboration with the World...
Type: BriefReport#: 192733Date: July 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
While the catalytic effect of aid on foreign direct investment (FDI) has long been an implicit consensus among many policymakers and practitioners, assessments of this causal relationship remain limited...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 201085Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Tian Junyan
This study, led by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) teams working on the Disaster-FCV Nexus thematic area and the Hydromet Services and Early Warning Systems thematic area,...
Type: ReportReport#: 192726Date: July 25, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
GFDRR
The basis for safe, accessible, appropriate, and durable development are a well defined building regulatory framework, together with comprehensive land use planning and building controls and standards....
Type: ReportReport#: 192730Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Robert Reid ;
Keiko Sakoda ;
Davison Muchadenyika ;
Moses Kibirige
The report illustrates the results of a series of simulations of the spread of COVID-19 disease in refugee camps using a demo set of data from the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. The purpose of this exercise...
Type: ReportReport#: 192732Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Carlos Hernandez-Suarez ;
Paolo Verme ;
Sergiy Radyakin
Forced displacement has become a phenomenon of tragic proportions. By the end of 2022, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced, having escaped conflict, violence, or persecution. Low- and...
Type: ReportReport#: 192731Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Paolo Verme ;
Paola Elice
In recent years, forced displacement has become a phenomenon of tragic proportions. Every year, more people are forced to flee their homes to safer shelter, either within their countries’ borders or in...
Type: BriefReport#: 192735Date: July 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
Established in 2006, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is a global partnership that supports developing countries and communities reduce risk, prepare for, and recover from...
Type: ReportReport#: 195037Date: July 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
Forced displacement has become a phenomenon of tragic proportions. By the end of 2022, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced, having escaped conflict, violence, or persecution. Low- and...
Type: ReportReport#: 192731Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Paolo Verme ;
Paola Elice
The Country Opinion Survey in the Dominican Republic assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in the Dominican Republic perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic...
Type: ReportReport#: 193948Date: July 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
Governments and nongovernment organizations around the world utilize Community-Driven Development (CDD) approaches to address complex and overlapping development challenges. Despite consistent evidence...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 192750Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Patrick John Barron ;
Patricia Fernandes ;
Stephen Joseph Winkler ;
Michael Woolcock
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