Document Type: Project Paper Report No.: RES25298 Document Date: DEC 19, 2018

Author: Lemiere,Christophe Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Do service providers respond to pecuniary incentives to serve the poor? Service delivery to the poor is complicated by the extra effort required to deliver services to them and the intrinsic incentives of service providers to exert this effort. ... See More + Incentive schemes typically fail to account for these complications. A lab-in-the-field experiment with nearly 400 health workers in rural Burkina Faso provides strong evidence that the interaction of effort costs, ability, and intrinsic and extrinsic incentives significantly influences service delivery to the poor. Health workers reviewed video vignettes of medical cases involving poor and nonpoor patients under a variety of bonus schemes. Bonuses to serve the poor have less impact on effort than bonuses to serve the nonpoor; health workers who receive equal bonuses to serve poor and nonpoor patients see fewer poor patients than workers who receive only a flat salary; and bonuses operate largely through their influence on the behavior of pro-poor workers. The paper also presents novel evidence on the selection effects of contract type: pro-poor workers prefer the flat salary contract to the variable salary contract.  See Less -

Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8666 Document Date: DEC 06, 2018

Author: Banuri,Sheheryar; De Walque,Damien B. C. M.; Keefer,Philip E.; Robyn,Paul Jacob Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Procurement Plan Report No.: STEP14948 Document Date: NOV 29, 2018

Author: Carol Ngunu (Dr) Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Procurement Plan Report No.: STEP14272 Document Date: NOV 07, 2018

Author: Adiaratou Diakhou Ndiaye Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR34215 Document Date: OCT 27, 2018

Author: Karamoko,Djibrilla Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR33911 Document Date: OCT 09, 2018

Author: Araujo,Edson Correia Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Yemen has been experiencing political instability since 2011 and open conflict since late 2014. As a result, the social and institutional fabric in Yemen has witnessed increasing disintegration. ... See More + Although official statistics are no longer available, anecdotal evidence suggests that Yemen's GDP contracted by an accumulated 40 percent since the end of 2014. The conflict has caused widespread disruption of economic activities and has dramatically diminished employment and income opportunities in the private and public sector. In the current conflict situation and the given political uncertainty, it is not possible to provide a detailed, sound economic outlook. However, Yemen's medium-term outlook will depend ultimately on whether an end to the on-going conflict can be found and the rebuilding of the Yemen economy and social fabric is facilitated. In the short-term, there is no substitute for external financial support for initial macroeconomic stabilization given the interdependency of external financing, the fiscal expenditure program, and early stabilization. Finally, if violence can be contained before the end of 2018, GDP is predicted to begin its recovery in 2019 (i.e., via the gradual resumption of hydrocarbon export). However, little of the economic recovery is estimated to translate into a meaningful reduction of the high poverty rate in Yemen (approximately 80 percent in 2018).  See Less -

Document Type: Brief Report No.: 130967 Document Date: OCT 01, 2018

Document also available in: Arabic Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Financing Agreement Report No.: Document Date: AUG 11, 2018

Author: LEGRL Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Procurement Plan Report No.: STEP10872 Document Date: JUL 11, 2018

Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Financing Agreement Report No.: Document Date: JUN 29, 2018

Author: LEGRL Disclosure Status: Disclosed