Surveys frequently rely on annual recall to capture individuals’ labor activities over the preceding year. This paper uses a panel of rural households in Malawi for a survey experiment to test the effect...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10680Date: January 23, 2024Author:
Ambler, Kate ;
Herskowitz, Sylvan Rene ;
Maredia, Mywish K.
How to influence social norms that drive behavior in relation to women’s participation in employment is not well understood. Providing randomly selected participants with information on the extent of (i)...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10681Date: January 23, 2024Author:
Cameron, Lisa ;
Setyonaluri, Diahhadi ;
Suarez, Diana Contreras
Since Cambodia’s first Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD1), the country’s economy has continued to grow strongly, reduce poverty and boost shared prosperity. Growth continued to be driven largely by factor...
Type: Systematic Country DiagnosticReport#: 187168Date: January 23, 2024Author:
World Bank
When host countries allow refugees to earn income, two main groups benefit: refugees, who become financially autonomous, and international institutions that can reduce the humanitarian aid that would otherwise...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10679Date: January 22, 2024Author:
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Hoogeveen, Johannes G. ;
Reese, Benjamin Christopher
Government jobs in developing countries are valuable not just because they pay relatively higher wages, but also because they provide many valuable amenities. How does the value of these amenities compare...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 192816Date: January 22, 2024Author:
Mangal, Kunal
This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Grenada. Using data from the 2017–18 Living Conditions and Household Budgets Survey and following the Commitment to Equity analysis framework,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10678Date: January 22, 2024Author:
Britton, Chevanne ;
Canavire Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier ;
Gómez Aliaga, Guillermo ;
Ibarra, Silvia Granados ;
Li, Ran ;
Pozo, Wilson Jimenez ;
Rios-Avila, Fernando
The Country Opinion Survey in Cabo Verde assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Cabo Verde perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Type: ReportReport#: 187902Date: January 20, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document illustrates the application of the Long-Term Care Assessment Toolkit to Indonesia. The primary objective of this example was to test and refine the toolkit, and it does not offer a comprehensive...
Type: ReportReport#: 187178Date: January 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document illustrates the application of the Long-Term Care Assessment Toolkit to Denmark. The primary objective of this example was to test and refine the toolkit, and it does not offer a comprehensive...
Type: ReportReport#: 187180Date: January 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The objective of this toolkit is to provide a set of guiding questions to collect data for a comprehensive description of an LTC landscape in any country. Given the worldwide aging, the World Bank's support...
Type: ReportReport#: 187179Date: January 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
This report analyses the functional capacities of older people and the sociodemographic characteristics of caregivers and develops a model to estimate the costs of ALTC provision and the effect that different...
Type: ReportReport#: 187150Date: January 19, 2024Author:
World Bank
The objectives of the report are: informal (unpaid) long-term care (LTC) by family and friends is the main form of caregiving in Indonesia. Only 1 out of 20 adults who need care rely on paid care in the...
Type: ReportReport#: 187177Date: January 19, 2024Author:
Absor, Muh Ulil ;
Wachs, Diego
The objective of this toolkit is to provide a set of guiding questions to collect data for a comprehensive description of an LTC landscape in any country. Such a tool should cover all the areas that makeup...
Type: ReportReport#: 187149Date: January 19, 2024Author:
Dorfman, Mark Charles ;
Glinskaya, Elena E. ;
Wachs, Diego
OECD broadly defines activation policies as a combination of policy tools that support and incentivize: job search and job finding, productive participation insociety, and becoming and remaining self sufficient...
Type: ReportReport#: 187142Date: January 19, 2024Author:
Fostier De Moraes, Gael ;
Petrelli, Andrea
Affirmative action is a promising solution to the crucial challenge of bridging the gap in women's access to higher education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper uses public universities'...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10674Date: January 18, 2024Author:
Najam, Rafiuddin
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