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  • September 2023 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) - What's New (English)

    The September 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 (Numbered Series) Report No.: 184889 Document Date: September 15, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aron,Danielle Victoria,R.Andres Castaneda Aguilar,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Maria Gabriela Farfan Betran,Foster,Elizabeth Mary,Fujs,Tony Henri Mathias Jany,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Krishnan,Nandini,Lakner,Christoph,Lara Ibarra,Gabriel,Mahler,Daniel Gerszon

  • Supporting Job Search for Mauritian Youth with Little Education (English)

    Boosting shared prosperity also means including disadvantaged groups in the labor market. While many factors can hinder labor force participation, behavioral factors have emerged as key barriers in the...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 151395 Document Date: August 3, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Castaneda Nunez,Jorge Luis,Gaddis,Isis,Ranzani,Marco,Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel

  • COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens (English)

    The economic crisis induced by COVID - 19 (Coronavirus) could be long, deep, and pervasive when viewed through amigration lens. Lockdowns, travel bans, and social distancing have brought global economic...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 147828 Document Date: April 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ratha,Dilip Kumar,De,Supriyo,Kim,Eung Ju,Plaza,Sonia,Seshan,Ganesh Kumar,Yameogo,Nadege Desiree

  • The Cashew Value Chain in Mozambique (English)

    Mozambique has a low average yield of raw cashew nut (RCN) of 3 kg/tree. The latest census of agriculture in 2015 estimated that 1.33 million households owned cashew trees. Another 30,000 households were...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 137379 Document Date: January 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Costa,Carlos G.,Delgado,Christopher L.

  • Private provision of education : opportunities for emerging markets (English)

    The private sector plays an important role in emerging market countries with limited education capacity by providing quality schooling at all levels, from early childhood development to tertiary education...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 113246 Document Date: February 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Walton, Tom,Ragoussis,Alexandros,Benjamin,Matthew Kenneth,Matthees,Kevin

  • Development in Iraq (English)

    In September 1957 Bank staff member Orville J. McDiarmid began a leave of absence to serve as Economic Adviser to the Development Board of Iraq. His description of Iraq in the excerpted piece that follows—which...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 104663 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Legal institutions and women’s employment (English)

    This note explores the role of legal institutions in influencing women’s employment in private firms in developing countries. Both a holistic and specific approach to legal institutions is adopted. Regarding...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 111250 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amin,Mohammad,Islam,Asif Mohammed

  • How unfair is the inequality of wage earnings in Russia? : estimates from panel data (English)

    This paper attempts to determine the extent to which inequality in wage earnings in the Russian Federation is unfair. Unlike other similar attempts that can, at best, produce a lower bound on the estimate...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125600 Document Date: June 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Greulich,Angela,Dasre,Aurélien,Inan,Ceren

  • Russia economic report : policy uncertainty clouds medium-term prospects (Russian)

    Russia's economy is stagnating. Seasonally adjusted growth for the first two quarters of 2014 was near zero. Consumer and business sentiments were already weak in 2013 due to lingering structural problems...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 91239 Document Date: September 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Russia economic report : policy uncertainty clouds medium-term prospects (English)

    Russia's economy is stagnating. Seasonally adjusted growth for the first two quarters of 2014 was near zero. Consumer and business sentiments were already weak in 2013 due to lingering structural problems...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 91239 Document Date: September 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Bolivia - SHS medium-term service contracts : case study (English)

    The Decentralized Energy for Rural Transformation Program (ERTIC/IDTR) started in late 2003, with an objective to increase access in rural areas to electricity, information and communication services...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 76162 Document Date: August 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: