1. Understanding Poverty

Documents & Reports

Showing 1 - 16 of 16 results | Display results in sets of 10 | 20 | 50

Download:
Sort By:
No Records Found. Change your search criteria and try again. I cannot find the document I am looking for.

  • Jobs Diagnostic Jordan (English)

    This report provides a detailed diagnostic of the Jordanian labor market. It finds that labor market outcomes are worsening in Jordan. It has one of the lowest levels of labor force participation in the...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 143662 Document Date: November 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge,Gonzalez,Alvaro S.

  • Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century (English)

    With an estimated 724 million extreme poor people living in developing countries, and the world's demographics bifurcating into an older North and a younger South, there are substantial economic incentives...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8867 Document Date: May 28, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Christiaensen,Luc,Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Robalino,David A.

  • Support to Jobs for Youth in Niger : A Retrospective Evaluation of Jobs Projects 2007-2018 (English)

    Supporting jobs for youth in Niger means addressing difficult questions of the right level of ambition, of reaching the necessary scale, and of trade-offs with funding for poverty reduction. Jobs policy...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 136031 Document Date: April 11, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gado,Boureima,Von Der Goltz,Jan,Saidi,Mira,Abdoulaye Sambo,Soumaila,Beatrice Dehasse,Joelle,Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Lemière, Christophe,Walker,David Ian

  • Migration and Jobs: issues for the 21st century (English)

    With an estimated 724 million extreme poor people living in developing countries, and the world’s demographics bifurcating into an older north and a younger south, there are substantial economic incentives...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 137419 Document Date: January 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Christiaensen,Luc,Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Robalino,David A.

  • Sierra Leone - Jobs Diagnostic (English)

    Sierra Leone is a relatively small economy with potential for jobs-rich growth. It is an extremely poor nation with substantial mineral, agricultural, and fishery resources. Nearly half of the working-age...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 122016 Document Date: December 11, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Michel Gutierrez,Veronica

  • Jobs umbrella multidonor trust fund annual report 2017 (English)

    The Jobs Umbrella Multidonor Trust Fund (MDTF) is a financing instrument that supports the World Bank Group’s jobs strategy to contribute to the twin goals of reducing poverty and ensuring inclusive growth...

    Document Type: Annual Report Report No.: 120474 Document Date: October 16, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Robalino,David A.,Mahmood,Fareeba,Tokle,Siv Elin,Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Madhvani,Sonia,Parikh,Vismay Bharat,Yan, Emily (Beibei)

  • Big data innovation challenge : pioneering approaches to data-driven development (English)

    Big data can sound remote and lacking a human dimension, with few obvious links to development and impacting the lives of the poor. Concepts such as anti-poverty targeting, market access or rural electrification...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 107751 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fernandes,Erick C.M.,Jimenez,Daniel Regis,Delerce,Sylvain,Harten,Sven,Kaiser,Kai-Alexander,Kelm,Kathrine M.,Krambeck,Holly,Lemieux,Victoria Louise,Gaba,Kwawu Mensan,Newhouse,David Locke,Rodriguez,Camila,Villaveces,Andres,Wang,Wei Winnie,Adelman,Melissa Ann,Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Hernandez Ore,Marco Antonio,Khokhar,Tariq Afzal,Kilic,Talip,Lozano Gracia,Nancy

  • Russian volatility : obstacle to firm survival and diversification (English)

    The need for economic diversification receives a great deal of attention in Russia. This paper looks at a way to improve it that is essential but largely ignored: how to help diversifying firms better...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6605 Document Date: September 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Iacovone,Leonardo,Subhash,Hari

  • The incidence of graft on developing-country firms (English)

    This paper measures the extent to which firms in developing countries are the target of bribes. Using new firm-level survey data from 33 African and Latin American countries, we first show that perceptions...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4394 Document Date: November 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: E. Valladares, Elio,Ernesto Lopez-Cordova, J.,Gonzalez,Alvaro S.

  • Who fears competition from informal firms ? evidence from Latin America (English)

    This paper investigates who is most affected by informal competition and how regulation and enforcement affect the extent and nature of this competition. Using newly-collected enterprise data for 6,466...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4316 Document Date: August 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gonzalez,Alvaro S.,Lamanna,Francesca