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  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 14 (No. 1) (English)

    This issue focuses on Global Migration and features the following articles: Migration is Key for Reducing Poverty and Sustaining Economic Growth; How Labor Markets Fit Into the Global Migration Debate;...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 140847 Document Date: October 9, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 13 (No. 3) (English)

    This issue focuses on Urbanization and Infrastructure Development and features the following articles:Building Sustainable Cities and Efficient Infrastructure; Who Benefits from Investments in Bus Rapid...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 136052 Document Date: April 17, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 13 (No. 2) (English)

    This issue focuses on Energy and features the following articles: Sustainable Energy Is Key to Achieving Global Development Goals; Charting the Diffusion of Power Sector Reforms across the Developing World;...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 133966 Document Date: February 7, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 13 (No. 1) (English)

    This issue focuses on Health and Nutrition and features the following articles: The Critical Role of Health and Nutrition in Supporting Development; The Income Losses from Childhood Stunting—and the Returns...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 130188 Document Date: September 26, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 12 (No. 3) (English)

    This issue focuses on FCV Countries and Topics and features the following articles: Confronting the Development Challenges of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence; What Drives the Radicalization of Foreign...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 126360 Document Date: May 22, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 12 (No. 2) (English)

    This issue focuses on India and features the following articles: A Long History of World Bank Research Focusing on India; Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India; For India's Rural...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 123703 Document Date: February 28, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 12 (No. 1) (English)

    This issue includes the following headings: Realizing Education's Promise; Investing in School Readiness; Can Participation by Parents Improve School Quality? Does More Time in School ImproveLearning Outcomes...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 120241 Document Date: October 4, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 11 (No. 3) (English)

    This issue includes the following headings: Are Active Labor Market Programs Effective in Developing Countries?; Are Automation and Trade Polarizing Developing Country Labor Markets, Too?; How Does Innovation...

    Document Type: Report No.: 115200 Document Date: May 22, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 11 (No. 2) (English)

    This issue includes the following headings: Estimating International Poverty Lines; Global Inequality between 1988 and 2008 and the "Elephant Graph"; Challenges in Counting theWorld's Hungry; Incentive...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 112736 Document Date: February 13, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 11 (No. 1) (English)

    This issue includes the following headings: Insights from World Bank Research on Trade and Globalization; What Drives Differences in Exporter Behavior across Countries? The Rising Domestic Content of Chinese...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 108075 Document Date: August 30, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 10 (No. 4) (English)

    This issue includes the following headings: Changes in Poverty and Female-Headed Households in Africa; Growth and Capital Inflows in Africa; Growth and Capital Inflows in Africa; Vulnerability to Climate...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 106434 Document Date: June 15, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 10 (No. 3) (English)

    This issue includes the following headings: The Social Determination of Behavior; Social Norms and Development Economics; Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy; Overcoming Behavioral Constraints...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 105653 Document Date: May 13, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 10 (No. 2) (English)

    This issue includes the following headings: Measuring Financial Inclusion around the World; A New Global Count of the Extreme Poor; Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of ISIS; Identifying...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 103568 Document Date: February 25, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 10 (No. 1) (English)

    This issue includes the following headings: Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Bangladesh; Natural Disasters and Household Well-Being; Road Improvement and Deforestation, Pathways toward Zero-Carbon...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 100581 Document Date: October 30, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 9 (No. 3) (English)

    In this issue: The State as Employer of Last Resort in Postrevolution Tunisia; What Drives Weak Job Creation in Tunisia?; Macroinsurance for Microenterprises; Testing the Effectiveness of Job Matching...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 99248 Document Date: September 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 9 (No. 3) (Arabic)

    In this issue: The State as Employer of Last Resort in Postrevolution Tunisia; What Drives Weak Job Creation in Tunisia?; Macroinsurance for Microenterprises; Testing the Effectiveness of Job Matching...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 99248 Document Date: September 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 9 (No. 4) (English)

    This issue includes the following headings: living on the edge in Mexico; what has the rise of China meant for labor markets in Latin America?; educating our future teachers; the growing and long-lasting...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 99249 Document Date: September 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 9 (No. 2) (English)

    In this issue: Facilitating labor migration from the Philippines; Incentives and teacher effort; Electoral accountability and local public spending in Indonesia; Why don't poor countries do R&D?; How effective...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 94196 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 9 (No. 1) (English)

    This research digest newsletter includes the following headings: village governments, gender, and public goods provision in Tamil Nadu; innovative health insurance in Andhra Pradesh - has it worked as...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 92458 Document Date: September 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Research digest newsletter Vol. 8 (No. 3-4) (English)

    This newsletter includes the following headings: tackling malaria among schoolchildren in Kenya; are small farmers more productive in Rwanda?; postharvest loss in Africa - what do farmers say?; explaining...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 89124 Document Date: April 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: