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  • Mission and the bottom line : performance incentives in a multi-goal organization (English)

    The impact of performance pay in institutions with multiple goals depends on complementarities in the disutility cost of effort and how different tasks interact to achieve each goal. Workers of a mission-oriented...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125615 Document Date: December 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gin, Xavier,Mansuri,Ghazala,Shrestha,Slesh Anand

  • Impact of weather shocks on MENA Households (English)

    Do households living in climate affected areas in the MENA region believe that changes in climate patterns and their environment are taking place? Have households been affected by extreme weather events...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90155 Document Date: July 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Making trade policy more transparent : a new database of non-tariff measures (English)

    As tariff levels have reached all-time lows in recent decades, non-tariff measures (NTMs) have taken a central role in the international trade agenda. In a nutshell, NTMs are all types of trade regulations...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 82521 Document Date: January 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fouad,Amir Alexander,Malouche,Mariem,Reyes,Jose Daniel

  • A guide for local benefit sharing in hydropower projects (English)

    Local benefit sharing in hydropower projects can be defined as the systematic efforts by project proponents to sustainably benefit local communities affected by hydropower investments. Benefit sharing...

    Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 70844 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wang,Chaogang

  • A view from the top : vulnerability in mountain systems (English)

    It is well recognized that mountain ecosystems and their inhabitants are among the most vulnerable to climate change. Measuring the nature and scope of these vulnerabilities remains, however, a work-in-progress...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 56748 Document Date: June 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brodnig,Gernot,Prasad,Vivek

  • Angola - Local government discretion and accountability (English)

    Angola has recently embarked on the decentralization process and counts with political will and commitment at the center. Various political decisions have been made to strengthen local administrative and...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 51408 Document Date: October 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Felicio,Mariana T.,Yilmaz,Serdar

  • Argentina - Income support policies towards the bicentennial (English)

    As Argentina approaches its bicentennial as an independent republic, it has a window of opportunity in social protection policy. As growth has returned and social indicators have recovered to pre-2001/2002...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 46976 Document Date: July 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rofman,Rafael P.,Ringold,Dena

  • Curricula, examinations, and assessment in secondary education in sub-saharan Africa (English)

    Curriculum reforms first and foremost should focus on improving the current teaching and learning processes. As a systemic challenge, these changes need to include re-orientation from secondary education...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 42565 Document Date: February 15, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bregman,Jacob H.,Verspoor,Adriaan M.,Klosowska, Kasha

  • Ghana: the village infrastructure project (English)

    The project, with an IDA credit of US$30 million, and a total of $60 million was implemented by the government between 1998 and 2004. It was jointly financed by KFW $7m; IFAD, $10; GoG $7.1m; District...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 37793 Document Date: September 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Utility regulators : roles and responsibilities (English)

    There are three main issues in defining a utility regulator's role: the scope of its coverage, its role in relation to ministers, and its role in relation to other regulatory entities such as the competition...

    Document Type: Viewpoint Report No.: 17223 Document Date: October 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smith,Warrick P.