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  • March 2021 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure : What’s New (Inglés)

    The March 2021 update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) involves changes to the data underlying the multidimensional poverty estimates based on the Global Monitoring Database (GMD). This update...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 157750 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Nguyen,Minh Cong,Wu,Haoyu,Lakner,Christoph,Schoch,Marta

  • Fostering Impactful Citizen Engagement (Inglés)

    Research on citizens as drivers of change and recent reports from the World Bank can inform its citizen engagement mandate. This governance note seeks to contribute to improving the World Bank's entry...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 138005 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Jespersen,Ann-Sofie,Larizza,Marco,Schott,Berenike Laura

  • Linking Social Protection and Humanitarian Assistance in the Philippines (Inglés)

    There is an increasing amount of literature discussing the integration of humanitarian assistance into social protection systems or the linkage of disaster risk responses with specific social safety net...

    Tipo de documento: Nota sobre políticas Número del informe: 135674 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Aldaba,Fernando T.

  • Improving electricity access or low-income households in Zambia (Inglés)

    Zambia is a lower middle-income country that has made significant socioeconomic progress over the past decade, with economic growth averaging 5.7 percent and 2011 per capita income reaching US$1,160. Despite...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 129218 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor:

  • Training and integrating local people into the workforce (Inglés)

    This note provides guidance on how to assist people from surrounding areas in gaining formal employment at the investment. Formal employment is a major expected benefit of agricultural investments. Yet...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 124292 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor:

  • Kenya - Agricultural risk assessment (Inglés)

    Despite highly variable growth rates, agriculture remains a crucial backbone of Kenya’s economy. The sector directly accounts for more than one quarter of the gross domestic product (GDP), 70 percent of...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 100299 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: D'Alessandro,Stephen Paul,Caballero-Ceruti,Jorge,Simpkin,Simon Piers,Lichte,John Allen

  • Impact evaluation to inform and transform investments in transport and ICT (Inglés)

    A new World Bank initiative, ‘Impact Evaluation (IE) - connect for impact,’ aims to radically transform and better inform the way that transport and information and communications technology (ICT) projects...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 98289 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Vandycke,Nancy L.,Legovini,Arianna,Liaplina,Aleksandra,Di Maro,Vincenzo

  • An examination of elderly co-residence in the developing world (Inglés)

    Co-residence is an important source of support for the elderly, especially in countries where pension systems do not cover most of the population. This note provides new evidence regarding elderly co-residence...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 96557 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Evans,Brooks Fox,Palacios,Robert J.

  • Do informal firms want to formalize and does it help them if they do? (Inglés)

    Most firms in developing countries are informal. Does it make sense for them to formalize? Hernando de Soto has famously argued that informal firms would like to be formal, only that burden some entry...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 68268 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mckenzie,David J.,De Mel,Suresh,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall

  • The role of clearing and forwarding agents in reforming the EAC logistics sector (Inglés)

    This policy note examines the current role of clearing and forwarding agents within the international trade logistics chain in the East African Community (EAC), this note discusses policies, particularly...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 63804 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Arnold, John,Mathenge,John Kibira,Dihel,Nora Carina,Strychacz,Nicholas Graham Reiss

  • Investment commitments in the Middle East and North Africa reached a peak level in 2007 (Inglés)

    Investment commitments to infrastructure projects with private participation in the Middle East and North Africa grew by 7 percent to US$12.8 billion in 2007, the highest level since 1990, according to...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 47886 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre,Perard,Edouard

  • Pakistan's water economy : running dry (Inglés)

    With an average rainfall of under 240 milli-meters a year, Pakistan is one of the world's most arid countries. The population and the economy are heavily dependent on an annual influx of water into the...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 46469 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Briscoe,John,Qamar,Usman

  • Key topics in public water utility reform (Inglés)

    Urban water supply services have traditionally been provided by state-owned water utilities. In the past decades, many governments have tried to turn state-owned water utilities into effective and viable...

    Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 44173 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Van Ginneken,Meike, Kingdom, Bill,Hopkins,Omar Snowden,Debomy,Sylvie Claudine

  • Output-based aid in Colombia : connecting poor households to natural gas service (Inglés)

    Natural gas connections could bring substantial benefits to poor households in Colombia.compared with other fuels typically used for cooking, natural gas is safer, less expensive, and less environmentally...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 41926 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2007 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Mandri-Perrott,Xavier Cledan,Patella,Dominic Pasquale

  • Investing in the reuse of treated wastewater (Inglés)

    Of the projected 1 billion growth in global population by 2015, 88 percent will take place in cities, nearly all of it in developing countries. Investments in urban water supply and sewerage coverage are...

    Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 37042 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Darghouth,M. Salah,Dinar,Ariel,Scott, Chris