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  • Supply-Side Regulatory Drivers for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (English)

    The brief is the first in a two-part series that provides an overview of the electricity sector's demand and supply side environmental regulations. This brief focuses on supply-side regulations and investigates...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 194257 Document Date: September 30, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Viktoriya Ereshchenko,Elena Popic

  • March 2023 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) : What’s New (English)

    The March 2023 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. In particular, some welfare aggregates have been revised...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 181012 Document Date: March 1, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: R.Andres Castaneda Aguilar,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Fujs,Tony Henri Mathias Jany,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Kotikula,Aphichoke,Lakner,Christoph,Lara Ibarra,Gabriel,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon,Montalva Talledo,Veronica Sonia,Nguyen,Minh Cong

  • Guatemala Jobs Diagnostic (English)

    Building back better’ has become a popular theme guiding the world’s post-Covid19 recovery efforts; in few middle-income countries this appears to be more pressing than in Guatemala. Over a decade of lackluster...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 157900 Document Date: April 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Eberhard-Ruiz,Andreas

  • Welfare and Competition (WELCOM) : A Simulation Approach (English)

    This note focuses on the welfare and competition (WELCOM) microsimulation tool. WELCOM, an easy-to-use stata-based package with minimum data requirements, was conceived as part of larger World Bank efforts...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 151250 Document Date: July 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos,Malasquez Carbonel,Eduardo Alonso,Granguillhome Ochoa,Rogelio

  • The Fight against Corruption : Taming Tigers and Swatting Flies (English)

    Corruption robs the public of precious resources, distorts the incentives to engage in productive activities, destroys confidence in public institutions, and spurs political instability. It disproportionately...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 145050 Document Date: January 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chuah,Lay Lian,Loayza,Norman V.,Myers,C. Bernard

  • Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey (English)

    This paper examines the quality of management practices in Turkey and its relation to other firm-level characteristics such as firm performance, competition, and type of ownership. A key finding is that...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 136314 Document Date: April 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Del Carpio,Ximena Vanessa,Taskin,Temel

  • Investing in Childcare for Women's Economic Empowerment (English)

    Two thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s citizens depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Women make up a large part of the agricultural workforce: in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), over 80...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 129432 Document Date: August 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Donald,Aletheia Amalia,Campos,Francisco Moraes Leitao,Vaillant,Julia,Cucagna,Maria Emilia

  • Expansion of the benefits package : the experience of Armenia (English)

    The legacy of the Semashko system left Armenia with an oversized and overstaffed health system. Beginning in the 1990s the country focused on re-designing its health system in an attempt to rationalize...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 122829 Document Date: January 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lavado,Rouselle F.,Hayrapetyan,Susanna,Kharazyan,Samvel

  • Migration and remittances : recent developments and outlook : Global compact on migration (English)

    This Migration and Development Brief provides an update on worldwide remittance flows and the global migration crisis. It focuses on two Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators: reducing remittance...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 129451 Document Date: April 27, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ratha,Dilip Kumar,De,Supriyo,Plaza,Sonia,Schuettler,Kirsten,Seshan,Ganesh Kumar,Wyss,Hanspeter,Yameogo,Nadege Desiree

  • How banks can seize opportunities in climate and green investment (English)

    Climate change presents risks and opportunities for the financial sector in both emerging and advanced economies. Financial institutions cannot afford to be outside of the transition path to low-carbon...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 112688 Document Date: December 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Li,Wenxin,Nguyen,Quyen Thuc,Narayanaswamy,Meera

  • The Bank’s Fitness Center (English)

    The World Bank Group’s well-equipped Fitness Centers have been a part of Bank life for numerous staff for many years—so long, in fact, that few people today recall its humble and precarious origins. In...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 104651 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Real-time passenger information : getting it right (English)

    The widening use of smartphones, high urbanization rates, and the rapid evolution of technologies are driving the expansion of real time passenger information (RTPI) systems for urban transport services...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 107701 Document Date: November 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pulido,Daniel,Canales,Diego

  • Real-time passenger information : getting it right (English)

    The widening use of smartphones, high urbanization rates, and the rapid evolution of technologies are driving the expansion of real time passenger information (RTPI) systems for urban transport services...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 101140 Document Date: November 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pulido,Daniel,Canales Salas,Diego

  • Are we confusing poverty with preferences? (English)

    Modifying the national poverty line to the context of observed consumption patterns of the poor is becoming popular. A context-specific poverty line would be more consistent with preferences. This paper...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125543 Document Date: April 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Boom,Bart van den,Halsema,Alex,Molini,Vasco