Documents & Reports
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The Unintended Consequences of Curfews on Road Safety (English)
During COVID-19, curfews spread like wildfire. Although their impact on curbing the spread of disease remains to be proven, curfews have the potential to bring about costs to society in multiple domains...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10393 Document Date: April 5, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Dolinger,Amy,Dolkart,Caitlin Fitzgerald,Legovini,Arianna,Sveta Milusheva,Marty,Robert Andrew,Taniform,Peter Ngwa
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Police Electronic Crash Records and Analytics : Lessons from a Pilot in Nairobi (English)
Governments around the world are leveraging the power of technology in transformative ways to realize the promise of digital government: improving public service delivery, administration, and social value...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 176006 Document Date: September 14, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Legovini,Arianna,Sveta Milusheva,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Marty,Robert Andrew,Dolinger,Amy
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The Impact of Ethiopia’s Road Investment Program on Economic Development and Land Use : Evidence from Satellite Data (English)
This paper studies the impacts of the large-scale Road Sector Development Program in Ethiopia between 1997 and 2016 on local economic activity and land cover (urbanization and cropland). It exploits spatial...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10000 Document Date: April 6, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alder,Simon,Croke,Kevin,Duhaut,Alice,Marty,Robert Andrew,Vaisey,Ariana Brynn
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Applying Machine Learning and Geolocation Techniques to Social Media Data (Twitter) to Develop a Resource for Urban Planning (English)
With all the recent attention focused on big data, it is easy to overlook that basic vital statistics remain difficult to obtain in most of the world. This project set out to test whether an openly available...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9488 Document Date: December 4, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Milusheva,Svetoslava Petkova,Marty,Robert Andrew,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Williams,Sarah Elizabeth,Resor,Elizabeth Landsdowne,Legovini,Arianna
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Urban Planning? : I Spy Crashes (English)
Road traffic crashes (RTC) are the number one cause of death for children and young adults ages 5-29 years. On average, only seventeen percent of road traffic deaths are estimated to be reported in the...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 155250 Document Date: December 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Milusheva,Svetoslava Petkova,Marty,Robert Andrew,Bedoya Arguelles,Guadalupe,Williams,Sarah Elizabeth,Resor,Elizabeth Landsdowne,Legovini,Arianna