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  • Geo-spatial modeling of access to water and sanitation in Nigeria (English)

    The paper presents the development and implementation of a geo-spatial model for mapping populations' access to specified types of water and sanitation services in Nigeria. The analysis uses geo-located...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8357 Document Date: February 28, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andres,Luis Alberto,Bhatt,Samir,Dasgupta,Basab,Echenique,Juan A.,Gething,Peter William,Grabinsky Zabludovsky,Jonathan,Joseph,George

  • Precarious drop : reassessing patterns of female labor force participation in India (English)

    This paper uses successive rounds of National Sample Survey Organization data from 1993-94 to 2011-12, and draws from census data. This paper (i) provides a description of nearly two decades of patterns...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8024 Document Date: April 4, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andres,Luis Alberto,Dasgupta,Basab,Joseph,George,Abraham,Vinoj,Correia,Maria C.

  • Stocktaking of the housing sector in Sub-Saharan Africa : challenges and opportunities (English)

    Africa is the globe’s least-urbanized continent, accommodating 11.3 percent of the world’s urban population, and the Sub-Saharan region is the continent’s least-urbanized area. Nonetheless, the region’s...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: AUS7243 Document Date: December 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Parby,Jonas Ingemann,Lozano Gracia,Nancy,Mason,David,Lall,Somik V.,Dasgupta,Basab,Young, Cheryl

  • Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era : 1993-2011 (English)

    This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand framework...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7426 Document Date: September 28, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jacoby,Hanan G.,Dasgupta,Basab

  • Urbanization and housing investment (English)

    This paper provides the first systematic empirical assessment of the pace at which housing investment has responded to rising demand from urbanization. The assessment used national accounts statistics...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 115004 Document Date: November 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dasgupta,Basab,Lall,Somik V.,Lozano Gracia,Nancy

  • Urbanization and housing investment (English)

    This paper provides the first systematic empirical assessment of the pace at which housing investment has responded to rising demand from urbanization. The assessment used National Accounts Statistics...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7110 Document Date: November 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dasgupta,Basab,Lall,Somik V.,Lozano Gracia,Nancy

  • Electoral accountability and local government spending in Indonesia (English)

    This paper takes advantage of the exogenous phasing of direct elections in districts and applies the double-difference estimator to measure impacts on (i) human development outcomes and (ii) the pattern...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6782 Document Date: February 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dasgupta,Basab,Kaiser,Kai-Alexander,Narayan,Ambar,Skoufias,Emmanuel

  • Harnessing urbanization to end poverty and boost prosperity in Africa : an action agenda for transformation (English)

    Urbanization is the single most important transformation that the African continent will undergo this century. More than half of Africa's population will live in its cities by 2040. In the face of rapid...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 81546 Document Date: September 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kariuki,Rosemary Mukami,Bakalian,Alexandre Edouard,Lall,Somik V.,White,Roland,Parby,Jonas Ingemann,Huang,Chyi-Yun,Wheeler,Sonia M.,Lozano Gracia,Nancy,Dasgupta,Basab,Mukim,Megha,Shi,Tuo

  • Electoral accountability, fiscal decentralization and service delivery in Indonesia (English)

    This paper takes advantage of the exogenous phasing of direct elections in districts and applies the double difference estimator to: (i) measure impacts on the pattern of public spending and revenue generation...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5614 Document Date: March 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dasgupta,Basab,Kaiser,Kai-Alexander,Narayan,Ambar,Skoufias,Emmanuel

  • The effectiveness and impact of WBI FY01-05 activities : results from 25 focus countries (English)

    The current work tests whether WBI's learning program effectiveness and impact changed over time in WBI's focus countries. This study is based on a regionally diverse sample with five time points, FY01-FY05...

    Document Type: WBI Working Paper Report No.: 39937 Document Date: March 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Author: Ling, Cristina M.,Zia,Heidi Shahrzad,Dasgupta,Basab,Yenice Hajdenberg,Izlem

  • The effectiveness and impact of WBI FY01-05 activities : results from 25 focus countries (English)

    The current work tests whether WBI's learning program effectiveness and impact changed over time in WBI's focus countries. This study is based on a regionally diverse sample with five time points, FY01-FY05...

    Document Type: WBI Working Paper Report No.: 39937 Document Date: March 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ling, Cristina M.,Zia,Heidi Shahrzad,Dasgupta,Basab,Yenice Hajdenberg,Izlem