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  • Gabon - COVID-19 Impact Monitoring at the Household Level (English)

    Approximately two years after the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Gabon seems to be most the resilient country with regard to COVID-19 fatalities in Central Africa. Although Gabon is still...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 170009 Document Date: February 28, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Viboudoulou Vilpoux,Mervy Ever,Beidou,Abdoullahi,Konou,Akakpo Domefa,Ouedraogo,Alice R.,Rontoyanni,Clelia Kalliopi Helena,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Narayan,Ambar

  • Sierra Leone 2021 Economic Update : Welfare and Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic (English)

    The global economy is projected to grow 6 percent in 2021, stronger than had previously been expected, reflecting fiscal support in advanced economies, especially the US, and faster rollout of vaccines...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 160598 Document Date: June 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kiendrebeogo,Youssouf,Mansaray,Kemoh,Foster,Elizabeth Mary,Baibagysh Uulu,Aibek,Sattar,Sarosh,Kosmidou-Bradley,Walker Turnbull,Laporte,Pierre Frank,Carneiro,Francisco Galrao,Mistiaen,Johan A.

  • Mali Economic Update : Protecting the Vulnerable during the Recovery (English)

    The twin shocks of the pandemic and the coup pushed the economy into a recession in 2020. Real GDP is estimated to contract by 2.0 percent (4.9 percent in per capita terms) in 2020. The containment measures...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 160255 Document Date: April 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kakpo,Eliakim,Yan,Xun,Doretti,Diletta,Buba,Johanne,Antic,Adela,Chauffour,Jean-Pierre Christophe,Tchana Tchana,Fulbert,Thomas,Theo David,Mistiaen,Johan A.

  • Mali Economic Update : Protecting the Vulnerable during the Recovery (French)

    The twin shocks of the pandemic and the coup pushed the economy into a recession in 2020. Real GDP is estimated to contract by 2.0 percent (4.9 percent in per capita terms) in 2020. The containment measures...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 160255 Document Date: April 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kakpo,Eliakim,Yan,Xun,Sanoh,Aly,Doretti,Diletta,Buba,Johanne,Antic,Adela,Chauffour,Jean-Pierre Christophe,Tchana Tchana,Fulbert,Thomas,Theo David,Mistiaen,Johan A.

  • Somali high frequency survey wave one : preliminary results (English)

    The historical civil war and political insecurity in Somalia has resulted in a lack of socioeconomic, perception and other key data in Somalia. The Somalia socioeconomic survey 2002 was the last Somalia-wide...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: ACS19286 Document Date: June 30, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mistiaen,Johan A.,Pape,Utz Johann,Nunez,Gonzalo Ignacio,Wollburg,Philip Randolph

  • Kenya - Country economic memorandum : from economic growth to jobs and shared prosperity (English)

    The Kenya CEM has five main messages. First, Kenya has performed well in the past decade in terms of economic growth, and modern services are behind the acceleration of growth. Expansion in these services...

    Document Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report No.: 103822 Document Date: March 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Handjiski,Borko,Sanghi,Apurva,Bogoev,Jane,Larbi,George Addo,Angelique,Umutesi,Randa,John,Kiringai,Jane Wangui,Chege,Patrick Nderitu,Whimp, Kathy,Gubbins,Paul Michael,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Farole, Tom,Nishiuchi,Toru,Battaile,William G.,Van Doorn,Ralph,Saez,Juan Sebastian,Hollweg,Claire Honore,Cirera,Xavier,Mogollon,Maria Paulina,Dowdall,Georgia Frances Isabelle,Onder,Harun

  • Informing the Somalia high frequency survey (English)

    The collection of survey data from war zones or other unstable security situations is vulnerable to error because conflict often limits the options for implementation. Although there are elevated risks...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: ACS14146 Document Date: June 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pape,Utz Johann,Mistiaen,Johan A.

  • An econometric method of correcting for unit nonresponse bias in surveys (English)

    Past approaches to correcting for unit nonresponse in sample surveys by re-weighting the data assume that the problem is ignorable within arbitrary subgroups of the population. Theory and evidence suggest...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3711 Document Date: September 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Korinek,Anton,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Ravallion,Martin

  • Re-interpreting sub-group inequality decompositions (English)

    The authors propose a modification to the conventional approach of decomposing income inequality by population sub-groups. Specifically, they propose a measure that evaluates observed between-group inequality...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3687 Document Date: August 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Ozler,Berk

  • Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income (English)

    The authors examine the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3543 Document Date: March 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Author: Korinek,Anton,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Ravallion,Martin

  • On the unequal inequality of poor communities (English)

    Communities differ in important ways in their needs, capacities, and circumstances. Because central governments are not able to discern these differences fully, they seek to achieve their policy objectives...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77480 Document Date: September 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Elbers,Chris T.M.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Ozler,Berk,Simler,Kenneth

  • The World Bank economic review 18 (3) (English)

    Trade policy and poverty reduction in Brazil by Glenn W Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, and Angelo Gurgel; Trade liberalization and industry wage structure: evidence from Brazil by Nina...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 38878 Document Date: September 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Blom,Andreas,Cadot,Olivier,Chaudbury, Nazmul,Elbers,Chris T.M.,Galasso,Emanuela,Goldberg,Pinelopi Koujianou,Gurgel,Angelo C.,Hammer,Jeffrey S.,Harrison,Glenn W.,Jayaraman,Rajshri Marie,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Mistiaen,Johan A.,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Ozler,Berk,Pavcnik,Nina,Ravallion,Martin,Rutherford,Thomas F.,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Simler,Kenneth,Tarr, David G.,De Melo,Jaime A. P.