Documentos e informes

Informality and Inclusive Growth in the Middle East and North Africa - Overview (Inglés)

A key purpose of this report is to understand the characteristics and incentive structures that drive informal employment in the MENA Region, with a focus on the Arab Republic of Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia...

Uganda 2022 Poverty Assessment Brief - The Role of the Telecommunications Sector for Poverty Reduction (Inglés)

Accelerating digital transformation can enable faster economic growth for Uganda. The digital sector represents one of the fastest growing sectors in Uganda, with positive spillover effects on other sectors...

Uganda 2022 Poverty Assessment Brief - Exposure to Shocks and Vulnerability in Uganda (Inglés)

Uganda’s rural households and the poor experience more frequent shocks and have limited safety nets, leading to higher rates of vulnerability and making it difficult to escape poverty. During the last...

Uganda 2022 Poverty Assessment Brief - Structural Changes in Uganda (Inglés)

Accelerating agricultural development remains an important pathway out of poverty in Uganda, but growth in agricultural income observed between 2013-2014 and 2019-2020 was to a large extent associated...

Uganda 2022 Poverty Assessment Brief - Inequality in Access to Human Opportunities (Inglés)

Opportunities to accumulate human capital and access basic services remain low and highly unequal for children in Uganda due to substantial disparities across locations and welfare group. The Human Opportunity...

Uganda Poverty Assessment Overview - Strengthening Resilience to Accelerate Poverty Reduction in Uganda (Inglés)

The share of Uganda’s population that lives below the poverty line has fluctuated over the last seven years, greatly influenced by shocks that have tested the resilience of the people. The COVID-19 pandemic...

Uganda Poverty Assessment : Strengthening Resilience to Accelerate Poverty Reduction (Inglés)

The share of Uganda’s population that lives below the poverty line has fluctuated over the last seven years, greatly influenced by shocks that have tested the resilience of the people. About 30 percent...

Disclosable Restructuring and (or) Additional Financing Paper - Support to the Preparation of Egypt?s First National Strategy for Development of Statistics - P166814 (Inglés)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Support to the Preparation of Egypt?s First National Strategy for Development of Statistics - P166814 - Sequence No : 01 (Inglés)

Preventing More Missing Girls : A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference (Inglés)

In parts of Asia, the South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, resulting in the excess mortality of girls and skewing child sex ratios...

Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Egypt : Background Papers (Inglés)

The previous decade in Egypt was marked by major internal and external shocks that have surely had severe implications for the evolution of the population’s welfare. In recent years, social, political...

Understanding Poverty and Inequality in Egypt (Inglés)

In 2015, a large share of Egypt's population was either poor (27.8 percent) or not poor but vulnerable to falling into poverty (an additional 28.7percent); most of the poor and vulnerable lived in the...

Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in the Arab Republic of Egypt (Inglés)

This study assesses the redistributive impact of fiscal policy –– including expenditures and taxation –– in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis...

Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty in the Arab Republic of Egypt (Inglés)

This study assesses the redistributive impact of fiscal policy – including expenditures and taxation – in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is...

Preventing More "Missing Girls" : A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference (Inglés)

In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in...

Preventing More "Missing Girls" : A Review of Policies to Tackle Son Preference (Inglés)

In parts of Asia, South Caucasus, and the Balkans, son preference is strong enough to trigger significant levels of sex selection, result in the excess mortality of girls, and skew child sex ratios in...

Occupational Segregation and Declining Gender Wage Gap : The Case of Georgia (Inglés)

This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed...

Occupational Segregation and Declining Gender Wage Gap : The Case of Georgia (Inglés)

This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed...

The economics of the gender wage gap in Armenia (Inglés)

In Armenia, the proportion of women among employed workers increased from 45 to 48 percent between 2008 and 2015. This evolution was accompanied by a fall in the gender earnings gap; however, the difference...

The Economics of the Gender Wage Gap in Armenia (Inglés)

In Armenia, the proportion of women among employed workers increased from 45 to 48 percent between 2008 and 2015. This evolution was accompanied by a fall in the gender earnings gap; however, the difference...