Documents & Reports
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Western Balkans Regular Economic Report : Retaining the Growth Momentum (English)
The economies of the Western Balkans (WB6) continue to navigate a complex operating environment, and despite experiencing a moderate acceleration in growth, uncertainty remains high. This year, the region...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 194086 Document Date: October 14, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Isolina Rossi,Richard Record,Maryna Sidarenka
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Women, International Trade, and the Law: Breaking Barriers for Gender Equality in Export-Related Activities (English)
Women are a powerful engine for international trade and economic growth. As workers, small-scale traders, entrepreneurs, and producers, their engagement in export activities has the potential not only...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 188673 Document Date: March 27, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lolita Laperle-Forget,Alev Gurbuz Cuneo
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Gender-Based Employment Segregation : Understanding Causes and Policy Interventions (English)
Employment segregation - the unequal distribution of female and male workers across and within jobtypes—is often at the heart of gender gaps in job quality, wage and employment trajectories. Employment...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 135705 Document Date: July 11, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carranza,Eliana,Das,Smita,Kotikula,Aphichoke
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October 2022 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure : What’s New (English)
The October 2022 update presents the 4th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM), based on updates to the Global Monitoring Database (GMD). The MPM is an index that captures...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 177272 Document Date: September 30, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Sabatino Gonzalez,Carlos Gerardo,Wu,Haoyu,Nguyen,Minh Cong
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Forewarned, but not Forearmed? : Lessons for the Recent Floods in Pakistan from 2010 (English)
As climate change results in recurrent and more frequent natural disasters, each calamity proves instructional for the future. The author summarizes the lessons learned from the social protection and wider...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 176248 Document Date: August 31, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ghorpade,Yashodhan
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Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis in Mongolia with a Climate-friendly Central Vaccine Store (English)
Mongolia’s central vaccine storage facility in Ulaanbaatar did not have the capacity or capability to accommodate incoming Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, some of which required storage at very cold temperatures...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 170030 Document Date: March 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Mozambique Jobs Diagnostic : Volume 2 - Jobs Strategy Policy Note (English)
Mozambique is about to face two transformative opportunities for accelerating the pace of poverty reduction: the prospect of major resource inflows from the extraction of liquid natural gas (LNG) and other...
Document Type: Policy Note Report No.: 157853 Document Date: March 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lachler,Ulrich,Ricaldi,Federica
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Enhancing Age-Readiness of Cities (English)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the first pandemic since the world’s population consisted of more people aged over 65 than under five. COVID-19 fatality rises sharply with age: over 95 percent of...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 161022 Document Date: September 10, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arai,Yuko
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Adaptive Safety Nets for Rural Africa : Drought-Sensitive Targeting with Sparse Data (English)
This paper combines remote-sensed data and individual child, mother, and household-level data from the Demographic and Health Surveys for 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to design a prototype drought-contingent...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 151247 Document Date: July 28, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baez Ramirez,Javier Eduardo,Kshirsagar,Varun Sridhar,Skoufias,Emmanuel
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Using Big Data to Expand Financial Services : Benefits and Risks (English)
Big data is transforming financial services around the world. Advances in data analytics and computational power are allowing firms to exploit data in an easier, faster, and more reliable manner, and at...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 143463 Document Date: November 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Abraham,Facundo,Schmukler,Sergio L.,Tessada,Jose
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Designing targeted business trainings for impact : insights from a women entrepreneurs' program in Tanzania (English)
Business training in low-income countries have scarcely shown impacts on revenues and profits, especially for female entrepreneurs. In this study, we test two kinds of trainings, one basic in-class training...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 128037 Document Date: July 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bardasi,Elena,Gassier,Marine,Goldstein,Markus P.,Holla,Alaka
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Going universal in Africa : how 46 African countries reformed user fees and implemented health care priorities (English)
This paper describes the health financing policies used today by African countries to expand health coverage. It identifies key health financing policies used by African countries and measures the existence...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 122811 Document Date: January 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cotlear,Daniel,Rosemberg,Nicolas
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Laos – Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Hydro Project : Twenty-sixth report on the international environmental and social panel of experts (English)
The 26th Report of the Panel of Experts (POE) summarises evidence of progress on the Listof Actions (LoA) in the Comprehensive Action Plan (CAP) towards closure of theResettlement Implementation Period...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 118758 Document Date: June 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mcdowell,David K.,Mann,Elizabeth,Talbot,Lee M.
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The private provision of infrastructure : opportunities for emerging markets (English)
Infrastructure is the backbone of every economy. It delivers basic services critical to sustainable economic growth, improved living standards, and shared prosperity. The traditional role of financing...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 113497 Document Date: December 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Grishin,Vadim Nikolaevich,Walton, Tom
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Proven delivery models for led public lighting : joint procurement delivery model - Ontario, Canada (English)
The context in Ontario was encouraging for light-emitting diode (LED) programs at federal, provincial, and municipal levels. At the federal level, there were a number of incentive programs funded by the...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 109581 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Makumbe,Pedzisayi,Weyl,Debbie K.,Eil,Andrew,Li,Jie
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Proven delivery models for led public lighting : super-ESCO delivery model in Vizag, India (English)
Vizag at night is illuminated with 91,000 streetlights that are owned by GVMC. Before Cyclone Hudhud, most of the streetlights used high-pressure sodium-vapor (HPS) or tubular fluorescent lamp (TFLs) technologies...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 109580 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Makumbe,Pedzisayi,Weyl,Debbie K.,Eil,Andrew,Li,Jie
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Proven delivery models for led public lighting : municipal financing delivery model in Quezon City, Philippines (English)
This paper entitled with Municipal Financing Delivery Model in Quezon City,Philippines, is one in a series of seven knowledge products produced by ESMAP in an attempt to help cities work through the challenges...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 109584 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Makumbe,Pedzisayi,Weyl,Debbie K.,Eil,Andrew,Li,Jie
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Proven delivery models for led public lighting : ESCO delivery model in Central and Northwestern India (English)
The project covers seven cities, encompassing nine urban local bodies: seven municipal corporations (MCs) and two urban improvement trusts (UITs). The urban local bodies are responsible for infrastructure...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 109579 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Makumbe,Pedzisayi,Weyl,Debbie K.,Eil,Andrew,Li,Jie
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Proven delivery models for led public lighting : public-private partnership delivery model - Birmingham, United Kingdom (English)
Birmingham’s light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting project is a small but integral component of a larger, innovative public-private infrastructure modernization effort - the Birmingham Highway Maintenance...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 109582 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Makumbe,Pedzisayi,Weyl,Debbie K.,Eil,Andrew,Li,Jie
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Proven delivery models for led public lighting : lease-to-own delivery model in Guadalajara, Mexico (English)
Guadalajara, with a population of approximately 1.5 million, is the fourth largest city in Mexico and is located in the country’s central Pacific region. Until the implementation of the current street...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 109583 Document Date: October 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Makumbe,Pedzisayi,Weyl, Debbie K.,Eil,Andrew,Li,Jie