The World Bank conducts Rapid Monitoring Phone Surveys in the Lao PDR to regularly monitoring household welfare. Survey Round 7 interviewed 2,000 respondents from randomly selected households in May-June...
Type: BriefReport#: 201851Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Research to date shows that digital G2P payments have meaningfully improved the
convenience, safety, and transparency of receiving transfers. Recipients frequently
report reductions in travel and waiting...
Type: BriefReport#: 201915Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poland has made important strides in strengthening gender equality, particularly in education where women now outperform men in many areas of human capital development. However, untapped opportunities...
Type: ReportReport#: 201865Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This brief explores the impact of digital government-to-person (G2P) payments on
financial market development outcomes. To understand this relationship, this brief
focuses on two interconnected areas:...
Type: BriefReport#: 201908Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The largest cash transfer program in Jordan, operated by the National Aid Fund (NAF), regularly benefited approximately 100,000 households by the end of 2018 (almost 10 percent of the population. NAF provides...
Type: BriefReport#: 201937Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
In the Sahel, economic inclusion programs can achieve
multiple objectives and are increasingly relevant in a context
of overlapping crises. By addressing the multiple constraints
faced by poor and vulnerable...
Type: ReportReport#: 201871Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The traditional role of women as primary caregivers in Armenia is one of the key factors behind lagging female labor force participation (LFP), with pronounced gender disparities that are particularly...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 201833Date: May 30, 2025Author:
Verulashvili, Marika ;
Grigoryan, Armine ;
Nozaki, Natsuko Kiso
This report presents the research findings in accordance with the three objectives of the study. It encompasses a comprehensive assessment of current policies and regulations pertaining to open data provision,...
Type: ReportReport#: 201862Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Since its creation in 2011, the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS) has been the governing body of social protection in Peru, with responsibility for the three largest conditional transfer...
Type: BriefReport#: 201923Date: May 30, 2025Author:
Risso Brandon, Fiorella Paola ;
Randall, Douglas ;
Galicia Rabadan, Guillermo Alfonso ;
Chaman, Hugo Brousset ;
Trujillo, Veronica
This document is intended to be a reference guide and toolkit for DAR development, and draws on expert insights, stakeholder consultations, and real-world experiences developing DARs and other digital...
Type: ReportReport#: 201856Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
This policy note uses the most recent available data to outline the primary factors contributing to child stunting and malnutrition in Laos. The report draws on data from the baseline round of impact evaluation...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 201850Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Faced with the devastating impact of the rigorous shutdown from late March, a massive package of R500 billion (10 percent of GDP) was announced on April 21. The main elements included: R200 billion in...
Type: BriefReport#: 201935Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Academic and case study evidence reveals that digitizing government-to-person (G2P)
payments can increase government-wide fiscal savings by minimizing transfers to
unintended beneficiaries, ensuring beneficiaries...
Type: BriefReport#: 201916Date: May 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
ocial protection and labor programs (SPL) can improve livelihoods and reduce vulnerability in coastal fishing communities in the Solomon Islands; but these programs must be designed in a way that responds...
Type: ReportReport#: 201823Date: May 29, 2025Author:
World Bank
This short note summarizes some of the findings from an extensive literature review, a global stocktaking exercise, key informant interviews, and five case studies in order to provide World Bank Group...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 201798Date: May 29, 2025Author:
Schomer, Inka Ivette ;
Hammond, Alicia S.
The five case studies detailed in this document describe a variety of contexts in which measures are being implemented to attract, recruit, retain, and advance women in science, technology, engineering,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 201799Date: May 29, 2025Author:
Schomer, Inka Ivette ;
Hammond, Alicia S.
In this paper we describe the Stata program cache, which allows for the full output of any Stata command to be cached to disk, enabling easy recovery of command output in the future without the need for...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 201790Date: May 29, 2025Author:
Aguilar, R.Andres Castaneda ;
Clarke, Damian Charles
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