Despite the large fiscal footprint of corporate tax incentives, limited causal evidence exists on their impact on economic outcomes. This paper helps fill this gap by exploiting the phasing out of a large...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11061Date: February 10, 2025Author:
Massimiliano Cali ;
Giorgio Presidente ;
Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda
This note highlights three practical and easy-to-apply steps for integrating fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) considerations into Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs). It draws on insights,...
Type: ReportReport#: 197206Date: February 10, 2025Author:
World Bank
This report establishes a comprehensive cost framework to guide school quality improvements aligned with standardized evaluation criteria. The framework builds upon the Fundamental School Quality Level...
Type: ReportReport#: 197187Date: February 9, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Nigeria assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Nigeria perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 200764Date: February 7, 2025Author:
World Bank
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integral to global economies and societies, the need for effective AI governance has never been more urgent. The rapid advancement in AI technologies...
Type: ReportReport#: 195304Date: February 7, 2025Author:
Sharmista Appaya ;
Jeremy Ng
This paper investigates gender disparities in residential property ownership and tax compliance in a large Argentine municipality using detailed tax administrative data. While ownership is evenly distributed...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11060Date: February 6, 2025Author:
Tatiana Flores ;
Cruces,Guillermo ;
Bermúdez,Jose Carlo ;
Thiago De Gouvea Scot de Arruda ;
Juan Luis Schiavoni ;
Dario Tortarolo
This paper develops a framework to analyze partial population experiments, a generalization of the cluster experimental design where clusters are assigned to different treatment intensities. The framework...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11059Date: February 6, 2025Author:
Cruces,Guillermo ;
Dario Tortarolo ;
Vazquez-Bare,Gonzalo
Accurate and comprehensive measurement of household livelihoods is critical for monitoring progress toward poverty alleviation and targeting social assistance programs for those who most need it. However,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11058Date: February 6, 2025Author:
Zheng,Zhuo ;
Wu,Timothy ;
Lee,Richard ;
David Newhouse ;
Talip Kilic ;
Burke,Marshall ;
Ermon,Stefano ;
Lobell,David B.
Madagascar’s vulnerability to climate change has been underscored by the recent deficit in rainfall at the start of the rainy season (October - December 2024). The latest climate modeling for Madagascar...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 197547Date: February 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
This paper analyzes the relationship between intergenerational educational mobility and long-term growth across the world using different mobility measures, comparing absolute mobility indicators with...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11056Date: February 5, 2025Author:
Ivan Torre ;
Michael M. Lokshin ;
Foster,James
This document focuses primarily on how classroom assessment activities can measure students’ literacy skills as they progress along a learning trajectory towards reading fluently and with comprehension...
Type: ReportReport#: 197071Date: February 5, 2025Author:
Diego Luna Bazaldua ;
Victoria Levin ;
Julia Liberman ;
Priyal Mukesh Gala
To address the important challenge of air pollution and the negative health consequences for their population, policymakers need data to both understand the current situation and assess the impact of policies...
Type: BriefReport#: 197073Date: February 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
Rapid population growth and urbanization place substantial demands on the infrastructure in African countries. With this, major investments in public infrastructure, including transport,
telecommunications...
Type: BriefReport#: 197075Date: February 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
From 2018 to 2022, household access to home internet in Latin
America and the Caribbean (LAC) increased from 50.7 to 68.4
percent, with higher access rates in urban areas (ITU, 2023).
In most countries...
Type: BriefReport#: 197069Date: February 5, 2025Author:
World Bank
Rapid population growth and urbanization place substantial demands on African countries’ infrastructures. With this, major investments in public infrastructure, including transport, telecommunications,...
Type: ReportReport#: 197074Date: February 5, 2025Author:
Sveta Milusheva ;
Sandra Buzinsky ;
Aram Gassama ;
Marion Elena Sagot ;
Vincent Thorne
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