Documents & Reports
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Tracing back the weather origins of human welfare : evidence from Mozambique (English)
Mozambique is among the African countries most exposed to weather-related hazards. Using detailed gridded precipitation data for individuals’ birth-year and birth-district, this study investigates the...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125565 Document Date: August 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baez Ramirez,Javier Eduardo,Caruso,German Daniel,Niu,Chiyu
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Public procurement reform in Morocco (English)
Over the last decade Morocco has made important strides in responding to citizen demands for more transparency, accountability, and shared prosperity. This has also extended into the public sector and...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90144 Document Date: March 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lipson,Rachel Tamar,Benouniche,Salim,Keita,Abdoulaye,Faridi,Khadija
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From noise to signal : the successful turnaround of poverty measurement in Colombia (English)
In the mid-2000s, poverty measurement in Colombia was at a standstill. A dated poverty measurement methodology was clashing with improvements in the national household survey system. As a result, official...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 77730 Document Date: May 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De
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From noise to signal : the successful turnaround of poverty measurement in Colombia (Russian)
In the mid-2000s, poverty measurement in Colombia was at a standstill. A dated poverty measurement methodology was clashing with improvements in the national household survey system. As a result, official...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 77730 Document Date: May 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Azevedo,Joao Pedro Wagner De
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Commodity markets review (October 2011) (English)
Non-energy commodity prices fell by 2.5 percent in September on weaker demand prospects and appreciation of the dollar up 2.9 percent against a broad group of U.S. trading partners. Declines were heaviest...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 64995 Document Date: October 14, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Understanding violent conflict in Indonesia : a mixed methods approach (English)
The Violent Conflict in Indonesia Study (ViCIS) is a new the World Bank project aimed at plugging gaps in the literature and adding to popular knowledge on violent conflict in Indonesia. The study aims...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 50303 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Barron,Patrick John,Jaffrey,Sana,Palmer,Blair David,Varshney,Ashutosh
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Environmental flows in water resources policies, plans, and projects : case studies (English)
The overall goal of this report and the accompanying report summarizing the findings and recommendations, both based on the economic and sector work (ESW), is to advance the understanding and integration...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 48871 Document Date: April 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hirji,Rafik Fatehali, Davis, Richard
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Travaux publics a haute intensite de main d'oeuvre (HIMO) pour la protection sociale a Madagascar : problemes et options de politique (French)
This paper assesses the effectiveness of labor-based interventions in addressing the needs of poor and vulnerable households using data from 15 projects implemented between 2006 and 32,008 by several agencies...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 51706 Document Date: August 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andrianjaka, Nirina Haja,Milazzo,Annamaria
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Subnational fiscal sustainability analysis (English)
This issue of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM) notes includes the following headings: Why does subnational fiscal sustainability analysis matter? Basic framework of subnational...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 44896 Document Date: June 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ianchovichina,Elena,Liu,Lili
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Accessibility and affordability of tertiary education in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru within a global context (English)
In the past two decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LCR) liberalized their economy. Together with technological advances and increased globalization, this policy has increased demand...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 44687 Document Date: March 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Murakami,Yuki,Blom,Andreas
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Cameroun : Plan d'action national energie pour la reduction de la pauvrete (French)
In Cameroon, the traditional developmental models for energy services, particularly the extension of inter-connected networks (in regard to electricity), generally financed on public funds, will not be...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 40759 Document Date: June 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Social assistance in the new EU member states : strengthening performance and labor market incentives (English)
This report looks at safety nets in the new member states from the perspective of fiscal impact and effectiveness. Given the limited budgets for social assistance, ensuring that resources are spent well...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 40541 Document Date: June 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kasek,Leszek Pawel,Ringold,Dena
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Social assistance in the new EU member states : strengthening performance and labor market incentives (Polish)
This report looks at safety nets in the new member states from the perspective of fiscal impact and effectiveness. Given the limited budgets for social assistance, ensuring that resources are spent well...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 40541 Document Date: June 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kasek,Leszek Pawel,Ringold,Dena
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Cape Verde: improving education and training : Cap Vert : Amelioration de l'education et de la formation (French)
This Credit equivalent of US $6 million was intended to develop, through the Education and Training Consolidation and Modernization project (ETCMP ) - 1999-2003 - a technically and financially sustainable...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 34343 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mohan, P.C. [editor]
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Cape Verde: improving education and training (English)
This Credit equivalent of US $6 million was intended to develop, through the Education and Training Consolidation and Modernization project (ETCMP ) - 1999-2003 - a technically and financially sustainable...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 34343 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mohan, P.C. [editor]
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Incentives and obstacles to growth : lessons from manufacturing case studies in Madagascar (English)
Since the mid-1980s the Malagasy government has pursued fiscal and administrative reform along with economic and financial liberalization. These efforts have contributed to steady GDP growth rates since...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 28427 Document Date: November 1, 2001 Author: Cadot,Olivier,Nasir,John L.,Cotton,Linda
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Agricultural extension in Madagascar : broadening services, leveraging partnerships : Les services de vulgarisation agricole au Madagascar : accroitre les services, et profiter des partenariats (French)
The extension system referred to as Training and Visitation (T&V), which is currently widely used in Africa, emerged from and was launched from the initiatives of the 1980s to support agricultural extension...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 57141 Document Date: June 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schorosch,Franz M.,Seck,Ousmane
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Agricultural extension in Madagascar : broadening services, leveraging partnerships (English)
The extension system referred to as Training and Visitation (T&V), which is currently widely used in Africa, emerged from and was launched from the initiatives of the 1980s to support agricultural extension...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 57141 Document Date: August 1, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Schorosch,Franz M.,Seck,Ousmane
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The benefits of privatization : evidence from Mexico (English)
Critics of privatization often argue that its benefits come at a high cost to society. The authors test the validity of this criticism for Mexico's privatization program, one of the world's largest case-by-case...
Document Type: Viewpoint Report No.: 16874 Document Date: June 30, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: La Porta,Rafael,Lopez-De-Silanes,Florencio
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Private financing of toll roads (English)
This study looks at the issues and challenges related to private toll road development by considering the experience of eight privately financed toll road projects. After reviewing the history of toll...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 16437 Document Date: December 31, 1996 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fishbein, Gregory,Babbar,Suman