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  • April 2024 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure : What’s New (English)

    This note presents the 7th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, based on country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of April 2024. The MPM captures...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 191861 Document Date: June 25, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carolina Diaz-Bonilla,Carlos Sabatino,Danielle Victoria Aron,Cameron Nadim Haddad,Minh Cong Nguyen,Haoyu Wu

  • Recovery from the Pandemic Crisis : Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Concerns (English)

    The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic crisis combines the worst characteristics of previous crises. It features a simultaneous supply and demand shock; domestic, regional, and global scope; a projected long...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 152797 Document Date: September 7, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Loayza,Norman V.,Sanghi,Apurva,Shaharuddin,Nurlina Binti,Wuester,Lucie Johanna

  • Russia’s recovery : How strong are its shoots? (English)

    Global growth gained momentum in 2017. After slowing to 2.4 percent in 2016 as investment and trade weakened, global growth accelerated to a projected 2.7 percent for 2017.Moreover, the recovery has been...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 121802 Document Date: November 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Russia’s recovery : How strong are its shoots? (Russian)

    Global growth gained momentum in 2017. After slowing to 2.4 percent in 2016 as investment and trade weakened, global growth accelerated to a projected 2.7 percent for 2017.Moreover, the recovery has been...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 121802 Document Date: November 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Can blockchain technology address de-risking in emerging markets? (English)

    Block chain, or distributed ledger technology, has the potential to address many problems in emerging markets. In this note the authors consider whether block chain can be used to mitigate the problem...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 115707 Document Date: May 24, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Rehermann,Thomas

  • The Presidency of Eugene Meyer (English)

    As Edward Mason and Robert Asher describe in “The World Bank Since Bretton Woods” it was achallenge to find a president who would be acceptable to Washington, to Wall Street, and to the rest of the world...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 104671 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Lower bounds on inequality of opportunity and measurement error (English)

    When measuring inequality of opportunity, researchers usually opt to eliminate within-type variation. Provided that in practice it is impossible to observe all circumstances, this implies that the researcher...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125410 Document Date: July 15, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Balcazar,Felipe Carlos

  • Determinants of fertility, women's health and employment behavior in Sri Lanka (English)

    The paper analyzes the labor market during 1992-2009, the wartime years, and uses the findings to help understand implications for the labor market as the economy grows and recovers from the conflict...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 74169 Document Date: October 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cnobloch,Stefania Rodica

  • Mexico - Wind development program (La Mata La Ventosa) : case study (English)

    Mexico is one of the most promising yet untapped areas for wind energy development in Latin America, with wind energy potential conservatively estimated at more than 40 GW. However, until 2008, its development...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 76168 Document Date: August 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Air transport and energy efficiency (English)

    The air transport sector is enjoying an optimistic growth rate while at the same time eliciting growing concern, due to its environmental impact and its vulnerability with respect to energy security. These...

    Document Type: Other Infrastructure Study Report No.: 68010 Document Date: February 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dr. Schlumberger, Charles E.

  • Turkey - HIV and risky behavior among mobile workers (English)

    The number of identified HIV cases is on the rise in Turkey, mostly due to heterosexual transmission (63 percent of new cases in the last five years). Since the epidemic in Turkey remains concentrated...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 62254 Document Date: April 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Yeh,Ethan