The title of the Independent Evaluation Group's 2023 annual report reflects IEG's contributions to the World Bank’s new vision and mission, and the report captures the way we are adapting and innovating—including...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 186543Date: January 18, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Russian invasion has had diverse effects on businesses, causing significant damage to Ukraine’s private sector. These effects can be attributed to three primary channels of transmission: disruptions...
Type: ReportReport#: 186527Date: January 18, 2024Author:
Avdeenko, Alexandra ;
Castro, Lucio ;
Criscuolo, Alberto ;
Gillaizeau, Marc Vincent ;
Iacovone, Leonardo ;
Maduko, Franklin Okechukwu ;
Pinzon Latorre, Mauricio Alejandro ;
Varada, Sunita
The most common sampling approach for cross-sectional household surveys in the developing world is a stratified two-stage design, where the first stage is usually a sample from a census-based area frame,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10675Date: January 18, 2024Author:
Himelein, Kristen ;
Pape, Utz Johann ;
Wild, Michael
A large literature highlights the need for low- and middle-income countries to establish adaptive social safety nets responsive to labor market shifts. While much is known about safety nets' expansion...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10676Date: January 18, 2024Author:
de Oliveira, Gabriel Lyrio ;
Fietz, Katharina ;
Morgandi, Matteo ;
Superti, Luiz Henrique
Most countries’ value-added tax (VAT) systems apply reduced VAT rates to a selection of expenditure items in order to achieve distributional goals, and (to a lesser extent) social and cultural objectives....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10677Date: January 18, 2024Author:
Thomas, Alastair Geoffrey Arthur
This report investigates the case of a Korean public-private matching grant program called the Tech Incubator Program for Startup (TIPS). Launched in 2013, the program provides a package of support to...
Type: ReportReport#: 186999Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Aridi, Anwar ;
Kim, Daehyun ;
Kim, Ki Bum ;
Kim, Taekyun ;
Kim, Wonjoon ;
Shin, Kyeyoung
Climate change - and efforts to mitigate and adapt to it - will affect global flows of trade and Indonesia’s ability to transition to a more environmentally sustainable economy on its path to become a...
Type: ReportReport#: 187010Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Agnimaruto, Bayu ;
Lakatos, Csilla ;
Montfaucon, Angella Faith Lapukeni ;
Silberring, Jana Mirjam
The Survey of Wellbeing via Instant and Frequent Tracking (SWIFT) is an innovative framework for producing poverty statistics with significantly reduced costs and time. Lanjouw and Yoshida (2022) reveal...
Type: ReportReport#: 187046Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Aron, Danielle Victoria ;
Yoshida, Nobuo
Tunisia has chosen to embark on an ambitious energy transition to address the challenges of decarbonization, energy security, and vulnerability to volatile international energy prices. The national energy...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 187002Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Boukhachab, Sofia ;
Decoopman, Camille ;
Dhiaf, Meryem Ben ;
Farhat, Sarra ;
Gazzo, Alexis ;
Othmen, Mohamed Ben ;
Robert, Jean-Gabriel
In January 2024, a new edition of the Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) was released. This new edition covers SPI scores for 2020, 2021 and 2022. There were no changes to the framework, methodology,...
Type: ReportReport#: 187040Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Serajuddin, Umar ;
Stacy, Brian William
Data-driven research on a country is key to producing evidence-based public policies. Yet little is known about where data-driven research is lacking and how it could be expanded. This paper proposes a...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10673Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Kitzmüller, Lucas ;
Mahler, Daniel Gerszon ;
Serajuddin, Umar ;
Stacy, Brian William ;
Wang, Xiaoyu
As countries continue to seek ways to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, they have the unique opportunity to develop policies aimed at boosting their economies in a way that is more inclusive and sustainable....
Type: BriefReport#: 187701Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Afif, Zeina ;
Pons, Gonzalo Antonio ;
Reyes-Retana, Graciela ;
Siegmann, Katharina
Climate change - and efforts to mitigate and adapt to it - will affect global flows of trade and Indonesia’s ability to transition to a more environmentally sustainable economy on its path to become a...
Type: ReportReport#: 187010Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Agnimaruto, Bayu ;
Lakatos, Csilla ;
Montfaucon, Angella Faith Lapukeni ;
Silberring, Jana Mirjam
This Short Note is part of a series building on the report Working without Borders: The Promise and Peril of Online Gig Work that aims to promote discussion among policymakers and practitioners on opportunities...
Type: ReportReport#: 187030Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Datta, Namita ;
Iacob, Nadina Alexandra ;
Rodriguez Tapia, Catalina
The Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) provides an assessment of the constraints Armenia should address and the opportunities it can embrace to accelerate progress toward the twin goals of ending extreme...
Type: Systematic Country DiagnosticReport#: 187001Date: January 17, 2024Author:
World Bank
This document is prepared by the Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) team at the World Bank Development Data Group. Following a brief summary of the SPI framework, methodology and data sources, the...
Type: ReportReport#: 187039Date: January 17, 2024Author:
Dang, Hai-Anh H. ;
Pullinger, John James ;
Serajuddin, Umar ;
Stacy, Brian William ;
Wollburg, Philip Randolph
Using longitudinal data for Argentina, this paper estimates the labor supply reaction of spouses and children, as well as the interactions between them, following the job loss of their husband or father....
The economy sustained its gradual recovery, buoyed by strong private consumption and improving goods exports but hampered by contracting manufacturing production. The economy is projected to grow 2.5 percent...
Type: BriefReport#: 187027Date: January 17, 2024Author:
World Bank
Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet, previous studies have had mixed results and the absence of household panel survey...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10672Date: January 16, 2024Author:
Abanokova, Ksenia ;
AlAzzawi, Shireen ;
Behrman, Jere R. ;
Dang, Hai-Anh H. ;
Hlasny, Vladimir
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