Documentos e Relatórios
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April 2024 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure : What’s New (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 191861 Data do documento: 25 de junho de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Carolina Diaz-Bonilla,Carlos Sabatino,Danielle Victoria Aron,Cameron Nadim Haddad,Minh Cong Nguyen,Haoyu Wu
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Supporting Sustainability in Kenya’s Fisheries through Social Protection and Labor Market Interventions (Inglês)
Among key challenges confronting Kenya’s over-exploited fisheries sector, fishing and aquaculture workers are very vulnerable: they work longer hours, earn less money, and have less access to social protection...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 192601 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2024 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Kevwe Sylvester Pela,Samantha De Martino,Federica Ricaldi,David William Japp
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Barriers to Accessing Medical Care in Sub-Saharan Africa in Early Stages of COVID-19 Pandemic (Inglês)
Eighty-two percent of respondents in a sample of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries were able to access medical care despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the remaining 18 percent, about one-third reported...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 157682 Data do documento: 1 de março de 2021 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Swindle,Rachel Elizabeth,Newhouse,David Locke
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Recovery from the Pandemic Crisis : Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Concerns (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 152797 Data do documento: 7 de setembro de 2020 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Loayza,Norman V.,Sanghi,Apurva,Shaharuddin,Nurlina Binti,Wuester,Lucie Johanna
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Navigating the Landscape of Transactions : Understanding Firms’ Transactional Governance Structures in Six Latin American Countries (Inglês)
This note summarizes findings from a new paper, which lays out a methodology to determine the types of mechanisms, be they the legal system, civil organizations, or shared business interest, that firms...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 152936 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2019 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Francis,David C.
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Measuring Jobs-linked Externalities in Private Investment Projects : A Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Perspective (Inglês)
This paper presents the rationale, the methodology and the results of the application of an innovative social rate of return (SRR) methodology in the context of an investment project (Gaza Solar Power...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 149182 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2019 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ricaldi,Federica,Mousley,Peter J.
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Sri Lanka - Achieving pro-poor universal health coverage without health financing reforms (Inglês)
Sri Lanka’s health system has a long track record of strong performance. This case study describes the main features and achievements of Sri Lanka’s high-performing health system, to distill lessons for...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 122814 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2018 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Smith,Owen K.
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Russia’s recovery : How strong are its shoots? (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 121802 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed
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Russia’s recovery : How strong are its shoots? (Russo)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 121802 Data do documento: 1 de novembro de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed
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Can blockchain technology address de-risking in emerging markets? (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 115707 Data do documento: 24 de maio de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Rehermann,Thomas
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Are labor market imperfections the reason so few microenterprises hire workers? : an experiment in Sri Lanka suggests they are not (Inglês)
This brief examines whether labor market imperfections stop microenterprises from growing, using an experiment in Sri Lanka that provided wage subsidies to small firms to help them hire workers.
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 111734 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2017 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: De Mel,Suresh,Mckenzie,David J.,Woodruff,Christoper
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The Presidency of Eugene Meyer (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho No. do relatório: 104671 Data do documento: 1 de janeiro de 2016 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed
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Fear and regret, or trust? From 'transparency as a way to control' to 'radical transparency to empower' (Inglês)
Most organizations are engaged in an ongoing quest for more transparency and accountability in an effort to comply with the more stringent regulations that were put in place after the financial crisis...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 106039 Data do documento: 1 de setembro de 2015 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Verhezen,Peter
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Lower bounds on inequality of opportunity and measurement error (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 125410 Data do documento: 15 de julho de 2015 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Balcazar,Felipe Carlos
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Unshackling women traders : cross-border trade of Eru from Cameroon to Nigeria : Emanciper les femmes commercantes : les echanges transfrontaliers d'Okok du Cameroun au Nigeria (Francês)
Eru, a vegetable found in the forest, plays an important role in trade between countries in West and Central Africa, especially between Cameroon and Nigeria. This note analyses the environment for trade...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 79711 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ndumbe,Njie Louis
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Unshackling women traders : cross-border trade of Eru from Cameroon to Nigeria (Inglês)
Eru, a vegetable found in the forest, plays an important role in trade between countries in West and Central Africa, especially between Cameroon and Nigeria. This note analyses the environment for trade...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 79711 Data do documento: 1 de junho de 2013 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Ndumbe,Njie Louis
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Determinants of fertility, women's health and employment behavior in Sri Lanka (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Documento de Trabalho (Série Numerada) No. do relatório: 74169 Data do documento: 1 de outubro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Cnobloch,Stefania Rodica
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Mexico - Wind development program (La Mata La Ventosa) : case study (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 76168 Data do documento: 1 de agosto de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed
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Air transport and energy efficiency (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Outro estudo sobre infraestrutura No. do relatório: 68010 Data do documento: 1 de fevereiro de 2012 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Dr. Schlumberger, Charles E.
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Turkey - HIV and risky behavior among mobile workers (Inglês)
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...
Qualquer tipo de documento: Informativo No. do relatório: 62254 Data do documento: 1 de abril de 2011 Tipo de divulgação: Disclosed Autor: Yeh,Ethan