Documentos e Relatórios

Nowcasting Global Poverty (Inglês)

This paper evaluates different methods for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including methods that apply statistical learning to large-scale country-level data obtained from the World Development...

Cambodia’s Future Jobs : Linking to the Economy of Tomorrow (Inglês)

There are 8 million jobs in Cambodia. 80 percent of Cambodian adults are working, compared to 62.5 percent in the rest of East Asia. Cambodia’s workforce is expected to grow by 135,000 workers per year...

Land Rezoning and Structural Transformation in Rural India : Evidence from the Industrial Areas Program (Inglês)

Zoning laws that restrict rural land to agricultural production pose an important institutional barrier to industrial development. This paper studies the effects of the Industrial Areas (IA) program in...

Vietnam : Assessment of Logistics Skills, Training, and Competencies of Male and Female Employees (Inglês)

Logistics has been a major growth sector in the world economy in terms of levels of activity and expenditure for many decades. Given its critical importance to economic development and social welfare...

Harnessing International Migration for Bangladesh : Lessons from an Impact Evaluation of a Government Intermediated Migration Program (Inglês)

Each year, well-over half a million Bangladeshis engage in temporary international migration for low-skilled jobs. Yet, migrants from Bangladesh are paying some of the highest costs to migrate in the world...

The social impacts of seasonal migration : lessons from Australia’s seasonal worker program for Pacific Islanders (Inglês)

The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) is a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected Pacific Island Countries. It was introduced in 2012 and covers the agriculture, accommodation and tourism...

The social impacts of seasonal migration : lessons from Australia’s seasonal worker program for Pacific Islanders (Inglês)

The seasonal worker program (SWP) is a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected Pacific Island countries. It was introduced in 2012 and covers the agriculture, accommodation, and tourism...

Kerala - Jobs (Inglês)

Most people in Kerala work off the farm, with nearly two-thirds of the workforce engaged in wage employment. But, many among them earn casual wages. This is not surprising since most of the new jobs created...

Maharashtra - Jobs (Inglês)

People in Maharashtra are gradually moving off the farm and into other kinds of work. Since 2005, job growth in Maharashtra, led by services, has been higher than in many other states. This has resulted...

Punjab - Jobs (Inglês)

Contrary to popular perception, over two-thirds of Punjab’s labor force works off the farm, among the highest levels of non-farm employment in the country. Since 2005, job growth in the state has been...

Himachal Pradesh - Jobs (Inglês)

Most of Himachal Pradesh’s people are engaged in farming. Non-farm jobs account for a lower share of employment than in most other states. Over two-thirds of Himachal Pradesh’s workforce is self-employed...

Haryana - Jobs (Inglês)

Haryana's people are increasingly employed in the non-farm sectors of the economy. After 2005, most new jobs in Haryana were created in construction and services. While this has led to rising wage employment...

Egypt, Arab Republic of - Egypt Emergency Labor Intensive Investment Project : P126339 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 08 (Inglês)

Madhya Pradesh jobs (Inglês)

People in Madhya Pradesh are increasingly moving off the farm and into other kinds of work such as construction. Growth in non-farm jobs has been positive after 2005 but lower than in other low-income...

Chhattisgarh jobs (Inglês)

A majority of Chhattisgarh’s people are in farming. The share of non-farm employment in the state is the lowest in the country. Half the workforce is self-employed and of the remaining, very few have salaried...

Urbanization and agglomeration benefits : gender differentiated impacts on enterprise creation in India's informal sector (Inglês)

This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important...

Sources of the persistent gender wage gap along the unconditional earnings distribution : findings from Kenya (Inglês)

Past studies on gender wage inequality in Africa typically attribute the gender pay gap either to gender differences in characteristics or in the return to characteristics. Authors suggest however that...

Seasonal migration to mitigate income seasonality : evidence from Bangladesh (Inglês)

In northwest Bangladesh, some 36 percent of poor households migrate every year during the lean (monga) period to cope with seasonal deprivation. Analysis of household survey data shows that the probability...

Moldova - Second Additional Financing for the Second Social Investment Fund Project (Inglês)

Moldova - Second Additional Financing for the Second Social Investment Fund Project (Inglês)