Quality early childhood education improves childhood development outcomes and has long-term implications for school readiness, workforce participation, and economic growth. Despite this, in Pakistan, the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10763Date: May 6, 2024Author:
Alam, Abdullah ;
Hasan, Amer ;
Hentschel, Elizabeth Lauren
Faced with the urgency of climate change mitigation, many governments around the world are considering and deploying different approaches to pricing greenhouse gas emissions. The efforts to put a price...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 189919Date: May 6, 2024Author:
Agnolucci, Paolo ;
Gencer, Defne ;
Heine, Dirk
By 2023, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, with children under 18 constituting 45 percent. This study examines the human development gaps between forcibly displaced migrant...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10765Date: May 6, 2024Author:
Hiller, Tatiana ;
Moya, Andrés ;
Rozo, Sandra
This study documents the impacts of climate change on firm-level productivity by matching a globally comparable and standardized survey of nonagricultural firms covering 154 countries with climate data....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10762Date: May 6, 2024Author:
Kassa, Woubet ;
Woldemichael, Andinet
This paper documents that senior plant managers in less-developed countries spend more time dealing with government rules and regulations than their counterparts in richer countries. These facts are interpreted...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10761Date: May 3, 2024Author:
Tamkoc, Mehmet Nazim ;
Ventura, Gustavo
The Country Opinion Survey in Somalia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Somalia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 190371Date: May 3, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper studies how air quality around combustion power plants changes in response to hydrological droughts that affect hydropower generation. Using fixed-effect and post-double selection methods, the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10760Date: May 3, 2024Author:
De la Fuente, Alejandro ;
del Valle, Alejandro ;
Eriksson, Mathilda
Fueled by the rapid proliferation of connectivity, IoT devices, e-commerce, e-government tools, and low levels of cybersecurity commitments, LAC ranks as the world’s region with the highest growth rate...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 196580Date: May 2, 2024Author:
Andres, Luis Alberto ;
Diao, Hualong ;
Straub, Stephane ;
Vergara Cobos, Estefania Belen
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health security and development challenge that poses a threat to public health and economic prosperity. It is a challenge that is often overlooked. As antimicrobials...
Type: ReportReport#: 189949Date: May 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Live Wire assesses the extent of concessional financing needed to bring to zero the incremental costs of power sector decarbonization in select low- and middle income countries. Those costs are higher...
Type: BriefReport#: 191678Date: May 2, 2024Author:
Ferreira, Rafael de Sa ;
Inon, Javier Gustavo ;
Dougherty, Patrick Ryan ;
Remy, Tom
Persons with disabilities are particularly vulnerable, as they suffer disproportionately from social and economic stigmatization and various forms of exclusion. Intensifying inequalities affect persons...
Type: ReportReport#: 189798Date: May 2, 2024Author:
Ayih-Akakpo, Ayih M. Arnold ;
BA, Sokhna ;
Boltz, Caroline ;
Choi, Narae ;
Coulibaly, Mamani Massiri ;
Diagne, Mamadou ;
Hasoloan, Jonathan Todo ;
Newman, Charles ;
Seck, Mokhtar ;
Semichon, Marine ;
Varnai, Bea
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