Evidence shows that women tend to have on average, better loan repayment rates than men. The fact that the women receiving loans are, on average, lower risk than the men implies that women are being subjected...
Type: ReportReport#: 186659Date: March 19, 2024Author:
Caire, Dear ;
Vida, Maria Fernandez
The new series Digital Progress and Trends Report adopts a holistic framework of digitalization, with selective topics examined in depth in each edition. The framework, which is described in figure ES.1,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 188414Date: March 19, 2024Author:
Liu, Yan ;
Qiang, Zhenwei
The Country Opinion Survey in Mali assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Mali perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local...
Type: ReportReport#: 188379Date: March 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Country Opinion Survey in Fiji assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Fiji perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local...
Type: ReportReport#: 188375Date: March 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
Uzbekistan’s agriculture sector will be put under severe pressure due to its heavy reliance on irrigation and the adverse impacts of climate change. Diversion of scarce water resources upstream of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 188396Date: March 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global poverty is increasingly becoming concentrated in conflict-affected settings. Therefore, assessing the welfare of those people displaced by conflict is of growing policy importance. Collecting and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10725Date: March 19, 2024Author:
Hoogeveen, Johannes G. ;
Lain, Jonathan William ;
Yama, Gervais Chamberlin
Bangladesh is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries, and its government has tried to address climate vulnerabilities through policy actions. Bangladesh is adversely affected by climate change although...
Type: ReportReport#: 188357Date: March 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience (HEPRR) Program has been screened for climate and disaster risks and been found to be highly exposed while risks to project activities are low.
Type: ReportReport#: 188371Date: March 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
Many low-wage labor markets tend to be characterized by search frictions which give rise to employer monopsony power. The authors study the market for domestic work in Bangladesh, where the majority of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 200337Date: March 18, 2024Author:
Bussolo, Maurizio ;
Lee, Jean Nahrae ;
Pathak, Anukriti ;
Sharma, Siddharth ;
Williams, Anaise
The Madagascar Urbanization Review aims to: contribute to the 2019 National Policy for Urban Development (Politique National de Développement Urbain), the main policy document outlining the priorities...
Type: ReportReport#: 188390Date: March 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper presents distributional national accounts for Honduras over 2003–2019, using survey microdata, administrative tax records, and national account aggregates. It assembles comprehensive data on...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10722Date: March 18, 2024Author:
De Gouvea Scot de Arruda, Thiago ;
Del Carmen, Giselle ;
Garriga, Santiago ;
Nuñez, Wilman
Nepal is amongst the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world and remains at high risk due to the country’s extreme hydro meteorological conditions, fragile geological conditions, topographical...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 188363Date: March 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
Millions of people connected to the main grid in developing countries face unreliable electricity. A 2019 estimate suggested that two billion people suffered annual blackouts of 100 hours or more and that...
Type: PublicationReport#: 188360Date: March 18, 2024Author:
Ashish Shrestha ;
Greacen, Chris ;
Tenenbaum, Bernard W.
The complex relationship between climate shocks, migration, and adaptation hampers a rigorous understanding of the heterogeneous mobility outcomes of farm households exposed to climate risk. To unpack...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10724Date: March 18, 2024Author:
Letta, Marco ;
Montalbano, Pierluigi ;
Paolantonio, Adriana
The document collection focuses on the Madagascar Urbanization Review, which aims to provide policy advice to the Government of Madagascar on leveraging cities as drivers of growth and structural transformation....
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 188390Date: March 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
Public procurement, representing on average 15 to 22 percent of GDP, offers governments a powerful tool to achieve their sustainable development and climate action goals. Challenges remain in scaling up...
Type: ReportReport#: 191987Date: March 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
Unequal access to economic opportunity for individuals with different innate characteristics, such as ethnicity or parents’ socioeconomic status, is often seen as both morally undesirable and bad for economic...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10723Date: March 18, 2024Author:
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Cuevas, Pablo Facundo ;
Lebow, Jeremy Aaron ;
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon
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