Documentos e informes
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Are Mobile Savings the Silver Bullet to Help Women Grow Their Businesses? (Inglés)
In Tanzania and Indonesia, we promoted the expansion of mobile savings accounts among women micro-entrepreneurs and provided them with business related training. In doing so, we simultaneously relaxed...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 130417 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bastian,Gautam Gustav,Bianchi,Iacopo,Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes,Goldstein,Markus P.,Jaluka,Tanvi,Knowles,James C.,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Kartaadipoetra,Firman Witoelar
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Poverty profile and trend in Cambodia : findings from the 2007 Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey (CSES) (Inglés)
This report provides updated poverty estimates for Cambodia using newly available data from the 2007 Cambodia Socio?Economic Survey (CSES). The report finds that poverty reduction observed over the previous...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 48618 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Knowles,James C.
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The economic returns to investing in youth in developing countries: a review of the literature (Inglés)
This is a companion report to Assessing the Economic Returns to Investing in Youth in Developing Countries, with focus on the literature reviewed and greater detail in some parts than in the 2003 study...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 31600 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2005 Autor: Behrman,Jere R.,Knowles,James C.
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A practical guide to economic analysis of youth projects (Inglés)
Investments in youth are particularly important in light of the unprecedented numbers of young people now entering their reproductive and early adult productive years. Of the more than one billion youth...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo departamental Número del informe: 33398 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Behrman,Jere R.,Knowles,James C.
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Assessing the economic returns to investing in youth in developing countries (Inglés)
This paper explores the economic case for investments in youth in developing countries. The current cohort of youth is the largest cohort ever. The economic, social, and demographic context of their lives...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 28888 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2003 Autor: Behrman,Jere R.,Knowles,James C.
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The World Bank strategy for health, nutrition, and population in the East Asia and Pacific region (Inglés)
The main objective of the health, nutrition, and population (HNP) strategy is to improve the Bank's effectiveness in HNP in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region. To this end, the challenge is the...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 20654 Fecha del documento: 30 de junio de 2000 Autor: Saadah,Fadia M.,Knowles,James C.
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The World Bank economic review 13 (2) (Inglés)
Household income and child schooling in Vietnam; by Jere R. Behrman, and James C. Knowles. Benefit incidence, public spending reforms, and the timing of program capture; by Peter Lanjouw, and Martin Ravallion...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 26450 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1999 Autor: Syrquin, Moshe [editor],Behrman,Jere R.,Knowles,James C.,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Ravallion,Martin,Maloney,William F.,Younger,Stephen D.,Sahn,David E.,Haggblade, Steven,Dorosh,Paul A.,Hamilton,Kirk E.,Clemens,Michael A.,Chisari,Omar Osvaldo,Estache,Antonio,Romero,Carlos A.,Demirguc-Kunt, Ash,Huizinga,Harry P.
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Household income and child schooling in Vietnam (Inglés)
The stronger are the associations between household income and child schooling, the lower is intergenerational social mobility and the less equal is opportunity. This study estimates the associations between...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 77294 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 1999 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Behrman,Jere R.,Knowles,James C.