The June 2022 release of Learning Poverty estimates involves several changes to the data underlying the country-level Learning Poverty figures. This document provides details of the key changes made. Some...
Small dams play an important role in the provision of many kinds of benefits, such as drinking and irrigation water supply, flood control, small/mini hydropower generation, fishing, and so on. They are...
Temporal deflators are needed to compare welfare aggregates over time, and thus to measure real changes in poverty. This note describes the sources of the consumer price indices that are used for every...
Early integration of disaster risk management/climate change adaptation criteria into social protection programs’ monitoring and evaluation plans, systems, and budgets allows for more effective capture...
The objective of the Pakistan Infrastructure Implementation Capacity Assessment (PIICA) study was to identify and ascertain the extent to which certain complex and dysfunctional business processes in fact...
IT standards, help to make the introduction of technology more systematic and economic. In some respects, ITS standards present a greater challenge than many other kinds of standards because they, like...
Over the past five years, the "second liberalization" of Africa has liberalized the local media in turn. The explosion of media outlet and the diversity of their outreach provide excellent opportunities...
Over the past five years, the "second liberalization" of Africa has liberalized the local media in turn. The explosion of media outlet and the diversity of their outreach provide excellent opportunities...
At their meeting in Paris on January 27 and 28, 1992, the Tenth International Development Association (IDA10) Deputies asked how IDA is integrating environmental concerns and the concepts of sustainable...
The broad outlines of International Development Association (IDA) programs for the IDA9 period were discussed in the IDA9 working paper 'IDAs sectoral programs and country allocations.' A number of IDA...
This paper sets out guidelines for Bank staff on centrally organized monitoring and evaluation in developing countries. Its purposes are to assist staff in discussions with member countries that wish to...
This report describes a suitable methodology for the investigation in the field of the ventilation performance of ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines. The methodology is based on monitoring the temperature...
The Hellerman-Rarick preassigned pivot procedure and a partitioning algorithm are used to construct reduced Jacobian matrices for the solution of large sparse nonlinear systems of equations.