Despite substantial progress in closing the gender gap, women’s labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa remains one of the lowest globally, at a mere 18 percent. This paper investigates...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10661Date: January 9, 2024Author:
Eissa, Nada ;
El Mekkaoui, Najat ;
Fourouheshfar, Yeganeh ;
Loukili, Sara
The team was to deliver subnational level database in the first year of the program under Pillar 2, Activity 3. This is a continuous activity and will be updated periodically as new datasets come in. Over...
Type: ReportReport#: 186882Date: January 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
An impact evaluation assesses changes in the well-being of individuals, households, communities or firms that can be attributed to a particular project, program or policy. The report presents: what is...
Type: ReportReport#: 186865Date: January 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
The report presents: characteristics of a good questionnaire; dimensions of the home learning environment; and caregiver report versus direct child assessment.
Type: ReportReport#: 186866Date: January 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Toolkit provides a practical, “how-to” guide for selection and adaptation of child development measurements for use in low- and middle-income countries. Users can follow the proposed step-by-step process...
Type: ReportReport#: 122031Date: January 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
The European Commission’s “NextGenerationEU” COVID-19 recovery package has underscored interest in the size of regional fiscal multipliers in Europe. While the objective of these funds is the long-term...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10658Date: January 9, 2024Author:
Fiuratti, Federico Ivan ;
Nikolova, Desislava Enikova ;
Pennings, Steven Michael ;
Schiffbauer, Marc Tobias
Disasters affect millions of people each year and cause economic losses worth many billions of dollars globally. Reporting on disaster impacts in research, policy, and news primarily relies on macro statistics...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10660Date: January 9, 2024Author:
Bentze, Thomas Patrick ;
Markhof, Yannick Valentin ;
Ponzini, Giulia ;
Wollburg, Philip Randolph
Bulgaria has traditionally adhered to fiscal discipline and prudent fiscal policy since the introduction of its currency board arrangement in mid-1997. After a gradual decline in the 2000s, public debt...
Type: ReportReport#: 186621Date: January 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global growth is expected to slow further this year, reflecting the lagged and ongoing effects of tight monetary policy to rein in inflation, restrictive credit conditions, and anemic global trade and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 186862Date: January 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global growth is expected to slow further this year, reflecting the lagged and ongoing effects of tight monetary policy to rein in inflation, restrictive credit conditions, and anemic global trade and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 186862Date: January 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
Global growth is expected to slow further this year, reflecting the lagged and ongoing effects of tight monetary policy to rein in inflation, restrictive credit conditions, and anemic global trade and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 186862Date: January 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
This exercise is designed to help clarify where one thinks the problem is in the early childhood system, as a step towards designing an intervention that would address the problem. At the end of this exercise,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 186877Date: January 9, 2024Author:
World Bank
Early marriage restrains women’s agency and bargaining strength in post marital households, impairing their ability to make meaningful contributions to household decision making. This paper employs a comprehensive...
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