Documentos e informes

Can Safety Nets Reduce Gender-Based Violence? How? (Inglés)

A growing body of evidence finds that cash transfers reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in various contexts, even when the cash transfer was not designed to do so. The effects are comparable with standalone...

April 2023 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure : What’s New (Inglés)

This note presents the 5th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, based on country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of April 2023. The MPM captures...

Colombia Jobs Diagnostic : Structural Challenges for the Creation of More and Better Jobs (Inglés)

In mid-2020, the Government of Colombia launched a labor reform consultation process (Misión de Empleo) in response to a deterioration in pre-Covid19 employment indicators and changing economic and labor...

Colombia Diagnóstico de Empleo : Desafíos Estructurales para la Creación de Nuevos, Mejores y Más Inclusivos Empleos (Español)

The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Poverty in Djibouti (Inglés)

This note illustrates the multidimensional nature of poverty in Djibouti. The authors use the multidimensional poverty index (MPI), which captures several welfare dimensions - monetary poverty, education...

Financing Firms in Hibernation During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Inglés)

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has imposed a heavy toll on economies worldwide, nearly halting economic activity. Although most firms should be viable when economic activity resumes, cash flows have...

Making it Easier for Women in Malawi to Formalize Their Firms and Access Financial Services (Inglés)

The rate of informal firms is high in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially for those that are women-owned and in the poorest countries, despite a total of 107 business regulatory reforms recorded by Doing Business...

The Plantation Forestry Sector in Mozambique : Community Involvement and Jobs (Inglés)

Mozambique had 60,000 hectares of large-scale commercial planted forest in 2009, supporting about 3,000 full-time-equivalent jobs. Very little growth in large-scale commercial planted area has occurred...

Dominican Republic - Implementing a health protection system that leaves no one behind (Inglés)

During the last 50 years, the Dominican Republic has experienced important economic growth, with rates higher than most Latin American countries. However, despite the substantial reduction in poverty and...

Masala bond program – nurturing a local currency bond market (Inglés)

The financing needs of emerging markets are enormous. Sectors such as infrastructure, small business, and housing are vital to a nation’s sustainable development and require substantial financing support...

The Pearson Commission - July 2003 (Inglés)

In August 1968, Former Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson accepted an invitation from Robert S. McNamara, then President of the World Bank, to form a commission to review the previous 20 years of...

ICT at COP21 : enormous potential to mitigate emissions (Inglés)

The transformational potential of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) was on display in Paris at the Twenty-First Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention...

The local socioeconomic effects of gold mining : evidence from Ghana (Inglés)

Ghana is experiencing its third gold rush, and this paper sheds light on the socioeconomic impacts of this rapid expansion in industrial production. The paper uses a rich data set consisting of geocoded...

Testing job matching services for unemployed educated youth in Jordan (Inglés)

This note tests the extent to which search and matching frictions are the cause of high levels of unemployment for educated youth in Jordan, and whether a job matching service can reduce unemployment.

The contribution of the mining sector to socioeconomic and human development (Inglés)

Many low and middle-income mineral-rich countries have experienced strong growth for a decade or longer, propelled by a rapid expansion of their mineral exports and a rise in prices of these commodities...

Connecting evaluation and budgeting (Inglés)

This paper discusses how evaluation is an essential tool for good budgeting and a core element of any well-designed government wide performance budgeting system. It is organized into 5 sections: (1) Evaluation...

Use of foreign intermediate inputs in developing countries : determinants and effects (Inglés)

Theory suggests a number of channels through which the use of foreign inputs can contribute to overall economic development and firm performance. However, empirical work on the use of foreign inputs, its...

Using national education management information systems to make local service improvements : the case of Pakistan (Inglés)

Education management information systems (EMISs), usually located within the ministry of education, are tools that can help governments improve education system administration by providing information...

Structural challenges to growth become binding (Ruso)

Russia's economy lost steam in 2013. Growth slowed to 1.4 percent in the first half (H1) of 2013, compared to 4.5 percent in H1 2012. This report examines in its first part several aspects of the economic...

Structural challenges to growth become binding (Inglés)

Russia's economy lost steam in 2013. Growth slowed to 1.4 percent in the first half (H1) of 2013, compared to 4.5 percent in H1 2012. This report examines in its first part several aspects of the economic...