Documents & Reports
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Unlocking Potential : Enhancing Education Quality in the Western Balkans Based on Insights from the PIRLS 2021 and PISA 2022 Studies (English)
Western Balkan countries are consistent participants in international learning assessments like the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Progress in International Reading Literacy (PIRLS)...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 196308 Document Date: January 13, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tigran Shmis,Paul Marie Michel Cahu,Brajkovic, Lucia,James Gresham
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Alcohol Excise Taxes in Vietnam: Opportunity to Save Lives while Increasing Tax Revenues (English)
Health taxes are excise taxes on products that generate negative externalities and internalities and cause health harms to consumers, typically applied to tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages...
Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 194366 Document Date: October 28, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Evan Harold Blecher,Ceren Ozer,Viet Anh Nguyen
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Working Without Borders - The Promise and Peril of Online Gig Work : Short Note Series Number Seven - Designing Online Gig Work Programs : Tips for Operational Teams (English)
This Short Note aims to provide some practical tips for practitioners like World Bank task team leaders in implementing online gig work programs to enable vulnerable populations - such as youth, women...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 188239 Document Date: March 11, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Designing and Delivering Government-Led Graduation Programs for People in Extreme Poverty (English)
While governments face significant obstacles in designing and delivering approaches for people living in extreme poverty, a substantial body of research shows that programs can achieve transformative impact...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 184535 Document Date: August 16, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gollin, Maxwell,Miranda, Carolina de,Muriuki, Taddeo,Commins, Steve
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Replicating Local Good Practices in Regulating the Business Environment at the National Level : What Italy’s Experience Reveals (English)
Excessive bureaucracy at any time is a burden on companies. In the context of the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, it is an additional hurdle that jeopardizes the ability of small and medium enterprises...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 172258 Document Date: June 3, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rooms,Tommaso,Bettarelli,Luca
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Green Fiscal Reforms : Part Two of Strengthening Inclusion and Facilitating the Green Transition (English)
In the post-pandemic world, EU member states will need to embrace two simultaneous challenges. These will include recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and embracing the ambitions of the European Green...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 170464 Document Date: April 12, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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EdTech in COVID Korea : Learning with Inequality (English)
The authors find that decades of investment in EdTech helped the Republic of Korea avoid the largescale average declines in student learning during Coronavirus (COVID-19) that took place in much of the...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 170303 Document Date: March 31, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Yarrow,Noah Bunce,Kim,Hayeon,Yoo,Jiseon,Pfutze,Tobias
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Navigating Through COVID-19 : A Snapshot of How the Pandemic Affects MSMEs in Mali (English)
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting businesses on a national and global scale. International and local restrictions to limit the spread of the virus have had severe economic impact...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 174879 Document Date: January 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Murken,Niklas Alexej,Buri,Sinja,Te Vogt,Sten
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Gulf Economic Update : Seizing the Opportunity for a Sustainable Recovery (English)
The economic outlook for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies appears far rosier now than it did even six months ago. Increased investment and consumption both public and private are contributing...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 166401 Document Date: October 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hussain,Sahar Sajjad,Alhmoud,Khaled Bassam Rasheed
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Gambia, The - COVID-19 Impact on Households’ Well Being Monitoring from July-August 2021 (English)
This note uses data from the High Frequency Survey on the COVID-19 Impacts on Households to derive results. It briefly addresses the following: Covid-19 and vaccination update; employment; education and...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 167562 Document Date: August 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Inclusive Growth at a Crossroads : Part One of Strengthening Inclusion and Facilitating the Green Transition (English)
The period of the COVID-19 pandemic will be marked and remembered. It will certainly be known for the ongoing health crisis that has reverberated across the world, leading to significant social impacts...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 161945 Document Date: July 21, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Skrok,Emilia,Prasad,Mona,Badiani-Magnusson,Reena C,Vaughan,Kristina Noelle,Timmis,Emilija,Dospinescu,Andrei Silviu,Nguyen,Nga Thi Viet,Laco,Matija,Holda,Paulina Ewa
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Indonesia COVID-19 Observatory : Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic - November to December 2020 (English)
This brief has been produced under the World Bank’s Indonesia Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) observatory, a partnership among multiple global practices at the Bank that aims to generate near-real-time...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 156298 Document Date: January 25, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Purnamasari,Ririn Salwa,Ali,Rabia
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Tailings Storage Facilities (English)
Tailings storage facilities (TSFs) are engineered structures that comprise the confining embankments (commonly referred to as tailings dams) and associated works and are designed to contain tailings (residue...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 158496 Document Date: January 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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The Firm-Level Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic : Summary of Results from Fourth Round (English)
The economic impact of the second wave of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Myanmar has been significantly more severe on businesses than the first wave, according to the World Bank’s firm-level survey...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 154151 Document Date: October 28, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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The Firm-Level Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic : Summary of Results from Fourth Round (Burmese)
The economic impact of the second wave of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Myanmar has been significantly more severe on businesses than the first wave, according to the World Bank’s firm-level survey...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 154151 Document Date: October 28, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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A Roadmap to SupTech Solutions for Low Income (IDA) Countries (English)
The digitalization and development of new financial products accelerated by Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) crisis will transform drastically the financial sector of all countries in the following years. Consequently...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 153566 Document Date: October 7, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Appaya,Mandepanda Sharmista,Dohotaru,Matei,Ahn,Byungnam,Kliatskova,Tatsiana,Seshan,Prasanna,Pascaru,Ion
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How Ethiopian Firms are Adapting to the Pandemic? : A Brief Look at the Evidence from HFPS-F (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main Report (English)
The High-Frequency Phone Survey of Firms (HFPS-F) interviews a sample of firms in Addis Ababa every three weeks for a total of eight survey rounds. This high-frequency follow-up allows for a better understanding...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 152804 Document Date: September 7, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tefera,Girum Abebe,Bundervoet,Tom,Wieser,Christina
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How Ethiopian Firms are Adapting to the Pandemic? : A Brief Look at the Evidence from HFPS-F (Vol. 2 of 2) : Database (English)
The High-Frequency Phone Survey of Firms (HFPS-F) interviews a sample of firms in Addis Ababa every three weeks for a total of eight survey rounds. This high-frequency follow-up allows for a better understanding...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 152804 Document Date: September 7, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Tefera,Girum Abebe,Bundervoet,Tom,Wieser,Christina
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Adapting Skills Training to Address Constraints to Women’s Participation (English)
This Jobs Solutions Note identifies practical solutions for development practitioners to design and implement skills training programs that improve outcomes for women. Based on curated knowledge and evidence...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 148181 Document Date: April 29, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Rubiano Matulevich,Eliana Carolina
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Integration of Health and Nutrition into Livelihood Programs under DAY-NRLM (English)
Over the past two decades India has seen significant improvements in household incomes, agricultural productivity and child survival, although malnutrition among children remains high, despite improvements...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 148850 Document Date: March 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Acharya,Gayatri