Documentos e informes

EU Regular Economic Report Nine : Energizing Europe - Part 2 : Rising to the Challenge (Inglés)

This report focuses on the impact of the war in Ukraine on the energy sector in 2022 and early 2023 and Its implications at the macro and micro level in the EU. The EU is a net importer of energy and is...

EU Regular Economic Report Nine : Energizing Europe - Part 1 : Inclusive Growth - Inflation Chipping Away Income Gains (Inglés)

Following a strong recovery after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, growth in the European Union (EU) is expected to sharply decelerate in 2023 as high inflation and increasingly tight monetary policy...

Niger - Investing in Human Capital, Agricultural Productivity, and Social Protection for Faster Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment (Inglés)

Niger earns its foreign exchange mainly from uranium and gold, which has limited domestic economic linkages. Distant second, livestock export also provide important revenue to the country. Overall, most...

Niger - Investing in Human Capital, Agricultural Productivity, and Social Protection for Faster Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment (Francés)

Niger earns its foreign exchange mainly from uranium and gold, which has limited domestic economic linkages. Distant second, livestock export also provide important revenue to the country. Overall, most...

Inclusive Growth at a Crossroads : Part One of Strengthening Inclusion and Facilitating the Green Transition (Inglés)

The period of the COVID-19 pandemic will be marked and remembered. It will certainly be known for the ongoing health crisis that has reverberated across the world, leading to significant social impacts...

Fiscal Policies, Inequality, and Poverty in Croatia (Inglés)

In a fiscally expansionary context, policy makers in Croatia must keep in mind the redistributive role of fiscal policies, particularly their impact on inequality and poverty. This paper uses both household...

Croatian Women and COVID-19 Pandemic : The Coronavirus is not Gender-Blind (Vol. 1 of 2) (Inglés)

High risk that gender inequalities will widen during and after the pandemic is gains in women’s and girls’ accumulation of human capital, economic empowerment, and voice and agency, may be reversed if...

Croatian Women and COVID-19 Pandemic : The Coronavirus is not Gender-Blind (Vol. 2 of 2) : Summary (Inglés)

High risk that gender inequalities will widen during and after the pandemic is gains in women’s and girls’ accumulation of human capital, economic empowerment, and voice and agency, may be reversed if...

Burkina Faso - Note sur la Situation de l’ Économie et de la Pauvreté en Temps de COVID-19 (Francés)

Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Burkina Faso (Vol. 3 of 3) : The Socio Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Burkina Faso – Results from a High Frequency Phone Survey of Households (Francés)

The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis...

Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Burkina Faso (Vol. 3 of 3) : The Socio Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Burkina Faso – Results from a High Frequency Phone Survey of Households (Inglés)

The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis...

Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Burkina Faso (Vol. 1 of 3) : COVID-19 Impact Monitoring at the Household Level (Francés)

The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis...

Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Burkina Faso (Vol. 1 of 3) : COVID-19 Impact Monitoring at the Household Level (Inglés)

The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis...

Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Burkina Faso (Vol. 2 of 3) : COVID-19 High Frequency Telephone Survey (Francés)

The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis...

Burkina Faso Rural Income Diagnostic  (Inglés)

With eight in ten of its people living in rural areas, Burkina Faso is one of the most rural countries in the world. Welfare has been improving for Burkina Faso’s rural households, but slowly, and faster...

Assessing the poverty footprint of World Bank projects at sub-national levels (Inglés)

Every year, the World Bank spends millions of dollars on development projects in its member countries. But do these investments reach the poor? This note presents a spatial approach to examine the poverty...

The Geography of Welfare in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo (Inglés)

This report aims to assess the spatial disparities in economic development along four important dimensions: (i) It provides stylized facts of the underlying forces behind within-country inequality, namely...

The Geography of Welfare in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo : Géographie du bien-être au Bénin, au Burkina Faso, en Côte d’Ivoire et au Togo (Francés)

This report aims to assess the spatial disparities in economic development along four important dimensions: (i) It provides stylized facts of the underlying forces behind within-country inequality, namely...

Pathways to prosperity in rural Malawi (Inglés)

By most accounts, rural Malawi lacked dynamism in the past 15 years. Growth was mostly volatile, in large part due to unstable macroeconomic fundamentals evidenced by high inflation, fiscal deficits, and...

CPI bias and its implications for poverty reduction in Africa (Inglés)

International poverty estimates for countries in Africa commonly rely on national consumer price indexes to adjust trends in nominal consumption over time for changes in the cost of living. However, the...