In 1997, thousands of people gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, for the first World Water Forum to address an urgent problem: the global water crisis. The meeting resulted in the Marrakech Declaration, a...
Type: ReportReport#: 190289Date: May 17, 2024Author:
Borja-Vega, Christian ;
Zhang, Fan
This note proposes strategic directions for IDA21, aiming to seek agreement on the proposed overarching theme and focus areas for IDA21. The following sections highlight the context, the new institutional...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 190407Date: May 17, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper explores the effect of road rehabilitation projects on the incidence of violent events using a novel, rich dataset of road rehabilitation projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Violence...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 190797Date: May 17, 2024Author:
Lebrand, Mathilde ;
Mueller, Hannes ;
Schouten, Peer ;
Steinbuks, Jevgenijs
In 1997, thousands of people gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, for the first World Water Forum to address an urgent problem: the global water crisis. The meeting resulted in the Marrakech Declaration, a...
Type: ReportReport#: 190289Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Borja-Vega, Christian ;
Zhang, Fan
Adoption of digital technologies is widely acknowledged to boost productivity and employment, stimulate investment, and promote growth and development. Africa has already benefited from a rapid diffusion...
Type: ReportReport#: 190277Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Cruz, Marcio
Can alternative survey methods address the underreporting of women’s and youths’ labor market outcomes, and thus improve the measurement of the underlying gender- and age-based gaps? This paper addresses...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10773Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Contreras, Ivette ;
Costa, Valentina ;
Dinarte, Lelys ;
Palacios-Lopez, Amparo ;
Romero Esteban, Steffanny
The Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan Survey (L2CU) has been conducted for 6 yearssince 2018 on a monthly basis, with the support of the UK Government The L2CU monitored socio-economic indicators...
Type: ReportReport#: 190319Date: May 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
How prevalent are empty miles in freight trucking markets, and what are the economic frictions that contribute to empty miles? This study collected estimates of empty trips, empty miles, and backhaul probabilities...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10775Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Yang, Ron Nan
The World Bank has published the Logistics Performance Index since 2007. The Logistics Performance Index used to be based exclusively on perception ratings from a global survey of logistics professionals....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10772Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Arvis, Jean Francois ;
Ulybina, Daria ;
Wiederer, Christina Katharina
Обследование «Слушая граждан Узбекистана» (L2CU) проводится на ежемесячной основе 6 лет, начиная с 2018 года, при поддержке Правительства Великобритании. В рамках L2CU проводился мониторинг социально-экономических...
Type: ReportReport#: 190319Date: May 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
Using administrative criminal records from Texas, this paper shows how high temperatures affect the decision making of police officers, prosecutors, and judges. It finds that police reduce the number of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10776Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Behrer, Arnold Patrick ;
Bolotnyy, Valentin
Digital enablement and inclusion have proved to be the most impactful tools for transforming human interactions. Without disregarding demand-side enablement, one of the key supply-side considerations which...
Type: ReportReport#: 192128Date: May 16, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper explores the evolution and resilience of global value chains (GVCs) in the agrifood sector, which intensified since the 1994 Uruguay Round Agreement. Using unique data from the FactSet database,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10774Date: May 16, 2024Author:
Beck, Anne Helene ;
Lim, Sunghun ;
Taglioni, Daria
Established in 2014, the World Bank Tokyo Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Hub was launched in acknowledgement of the learning emerging from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Operating under...
Type: BriefReport#: 190257Date: May 15, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper investigates whether the minimum wage policy significantly reduced poverty in Java Island, Indonesia, between 2002 and 2014. Its identification strategy exploits variation in minimum wages over...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 197040Date: May 15, 2024Author:
Al Izzati, Ridho ;
Merdikawati, Nurina
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