Documents & Reports
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The World Bank Group in Nepal, 2014–23 - Country Program Evaluation (English)
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) assesses the relevance, effectiveness, and adaptability of the World Bank Group’s support to Nepal from FY 2014 through FY23. The evaluation period spans the FY14–18...
Document Type: IEG Evaluation Report No.: 196288 Document Date: February 4, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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The Two-Step Jobs Diagnostic Approach (English)
Good jobs are often a key economic issue in advanced and developing economies alike. Jobs outcomes that are socially sub-optimal, inefficient, or inequitable vary a great deal by country, but can include...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 190694 Document Date: May 30, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Osborne,Theresa Kay
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Operationalizing JET in AFW (English)
There are clear synergies between the JET, gender, and climate/GRID lens, all of which are critical for country level portfolio assessments, e.g., more gender-balanced labor market, green growth. Economic...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 190692 Document Date: February 1, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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The Delivery of Employment Services in a Multi-Country Case Study Series: Netherlands (English)
In the Netherlands, the labor market is characterized by a high amount of parttime jobs (mainly held by women) and a comparatively high share of temporary employment and self-employment.4 On the one hand...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 186172 Document Date: December 1, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Results from Myanmar Firm Monitoring : Round 9 Results (English)
Results from the Myanmar firm survey round 9 indicate that the business environment remained vulnerable. In October 2021, firms re-ported that profit declined by an average of 66 percent compared to January...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 168089 Document Date: January 16, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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PES Review Workshop - Intermediation Services (English)
Job search counseling and training are the main services to improve jobseekers' skills in finding vacancies and applying for jobs. Strategies to connect employers with jobseekers variate from short-term...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 186158 Document Date: May 31, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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The Jobs Challenge in the South Caucasus – Georgia (English)
This brief focuses on the jobs and unemployment situation in Georgia, drawing from the World Bank report “Back to work: growing with jobs in Europe and Central Asia.” Unemployment remains a major challenge...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 180595 Document Date: January 12, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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The Jobs Challenge in the South Caucasus – Armenia (English)
This brief focuses on the jobs and unemployment situation in Armenia, drawing from the World Bank report “Back to work: growing with jobs in Europe and Central Asia.” In Armenia, the unemployment rate...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 180594 Document Date: December 16, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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DECPG Weekly Global Economic Brief (English)
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: global retail sales volumes slowed in April, stagnating...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 88814 Document Date: July 8, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Announcement of Tourism Project in Mexico will Create 65,000 New Jobs on March 2, 1978 (English)
This news release, dated March 2, 1978, announces a tourism project in Mexico expected to generate over 32,000 permanent jobs directly and another 33,000 indirectly will be supported by a 50 million dollars...
Document Type: Announcement Report No.: 174565 Document Date: March 1, 1978 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank