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
The sustainable development of the blue economy requires financial instruments that mobilize investment, mitigate risks, and drive measurable impact. This report presents a stocktaking of blue finance...
Type: ReportReport#: 201779Date: May 29, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report outlines the development of a novel strategy for an intergovernmental transfer program known as performance-based incentives (PBIs). The Government of India initiated the Sub-National Certification...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 201829Date: May 29, 2025Author:
Yellappa, Vijayashree ;
Fritsche, Gyorgy Bela ;
Surendran, Sapna ;
Dong, Di ;
Vu, Lung ;
Gupta, Tanya ;
Mutasa, Ronald ;
Yazbeck, Abdo ;
Nguyen, Son Nam ;
Mathur, Alok ;
Somasundaram, Vigneshwaran
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