Documentos e informes
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April 2024 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure : What’s New (Inglés)
This note presents the 7th edition of the World Bank’s Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) database, based on country data from the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) as of April 2024. The MPM captures...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 191861 Fecha del documento: 25 de junio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Carolina Diaz-Bonilla,Carlos Sabatino,Danielle Victoria Aron,Cameron Nadim Haddad,Minh Cong Nguyen,Haoyu Wu
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Supporting Sustainability in Kenya’s Fisheries through Social Protection and Labor Market Interventions (Inglés)
Among key challenges confronting Kenya’s over-exploited fisheries sector, fishing and aquaculture workers are very vulnerable: they work longer hours, earn less money, and have less access to social protection...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 192601 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2024 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kevwe Sylvester Pela,Samantha De Martino,Federica Ricaldi,David William Japp
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Barriers to Accessing Medical Care in Sub-Saharan Africa in Early Stages of COVID-19 Pandemic (Inglés)
Eighty-two percent of respondents in a sample of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries were able to access medical care despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the remaining 18 percent, about one-third reported...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 157682 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Swindle,Rachel Elizabeth,Newhouse,David Locke
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Recovery from the Pandemic Crisis : Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Concerns (Inglés)
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic crisis combines the worst characteristics of previous crises. It features a simultaneous supply and demand shock; domestic, regional, and global scope; a projected long...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 152797 Fecha del documento: 7 de septiembre de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Loayza,Norman V.,Sanghi,Apurva,Shaharuddin,Nurlina Binti,Wuester,Lucie Johanna
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Measuring Jobs-linked Externalities in Private Investment Projects : A Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Perspective (Inglés)
This paper presents the rationale, the methodology and the results of the application of an innovative social rate of return (SRR) methodology in the context of an investment project (Gaza Solar Power...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 149182 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ricaldi,Federica,Mousley,Peter J.
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Navigating the Landscape of Transactions : Understanding Firms’ Transactional Governance Structures in Six Latin American Countries (Inglés)
This note summarizes findings from a new paper, which lays out a methodology to determine the types of mechanisms, be they the legal system, civil organizations, or shared business interest, that firms...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 152936 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Francis,David C.
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Sri Lanka - Achieving pro-poor universal health coverage without health financing reforms (Inglés)
Sri Lanka’s health system has a long track record of strong performance. This case study describes the main features and achievements of Sri Lanka’s high-performing health system, to distill lessons for...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 122814 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Smith,Owen K.
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Russia’s recovery : How strong are its shoots? (Inglés)
Global growth gained momentum in 2017. After slowing to 2.4 percent in 2016 as investment and trade weakened, global growth accelerated to a projected 2.7 percent for 2017.Moreover, the recovery has been...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 121802 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Russia’s recovery : How strong are its shoots? (Ruso)
Global growth gained momentum in 2017. After slowing to 2.4 percent in 2016 as investment and trade weakened, global growth accelerated to a projected 2.7 percent for 2017.Moreover, the recovery has been...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 121802 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Can blockchain technology address de-risking in emerging markets? (Inglés)
Block chain, or distributed ledger technology, has the potential to address many problems in emerging markets. In this note the authors consider whether block chain can be used to mitigate the problem...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 115707 Fecha del documento: 24 de mayo de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ramachandran,Vijaya,Rehermann,Thomas
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Are labor market imperfections the reason so few microenterprises hire workers? : an experiment in Sri Lanka suggests they are not (Inglés)
This brief examines whether labor market imperfections stop microenterprises from growing, using an experiment in Sri Lanka that provided wage subsidies to small firms to help them hire workers.
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 111734 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: De Mel,Suresh,Mckenzie,David J.,Woodruff,Christoper
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The Presidency of Eugene Meyer (Inglés)
As Edward Mason and Robert Asher describe in “The World Bank Since Bretton Woods” it was achallenge to find a president who would be acceptable to Washington, to Wall Street, and to the rest of the world...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 104671 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Fear and regret, or trust? From 'transparency as a way to control' to 'radical transparency to empower' (Inglés)
Most organizations are engaged in an ongoing quest for more transparency and accountability in an effort to comply with the more stringent regulations that were put in place after the financial crisis...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 106039 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Verhezen,Peter
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Lower bounds on inequality of opportunity and measurement error (Inglés)
When measuring inequality of opportunity, researchers usually opt to eliminate within-type variation. Provided that in practice it is impossible to observe all circumstances, this implies that the researcher...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 125410 Fecha del documento: 15 de julio de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Balcazar,Felipe Carlos
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Unshackling women traders : cross-border trade of Eru from Cameroon to Nigeria : Emanciper les femmes commercantes : les echanges transfrontaliers d'Okok du Cameroun au Nigeria (Francés)
Eru, a vegetable found in the forest, plays an important role in trade between countries in West and Central Africa, especially between Cameroon and Nigeria. This note analyses the environment for trade...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 79711 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ndumbe,Njie Louis
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Unshackling women traders : cross-border trade of Eru from Cameroon to Nigeria (Inglés)
Eru, a vegetable found in the forest, plays an important role in trade between countries in West and Central Africa, especially between Cameroon and Nigeria. This note analyses the environment for trade...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 79711 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ndumbe,Njie Louis
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Determinants of fertility, women's health and employment behavior in Sri Lanka (Inglés)
The paper analyzes the labor market during 1992-2009, the wartime years, and uses the findings to help understand implications for the labor market as the economy grows and recovers from the conflict...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 74169 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cnobloch,Stefania Rodica
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Mexico - Wind development program (La Mata La Ventosa) : case study (Inglés)
Mexico is one of the most promising yet untapped areas for wind energy development in Latin America, with wind energy potential conservatively estimated at more than 40 GW. However, until 2008, its development...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 76168 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Air transport and energy efficiency (Inglés)
The air transport sector is enjoying an optimistic growth rate while at the same time eliciting growing concern, due to its environmental impact and its vulnerability with respect to energy security. These...
Tipo de documento: Otro estudio sobre infraestructura Número del informe: 68010 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2012 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dr. Schlumberger, Charles E.
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Turkey - HIV and risky behavior among mobile workers (Inglés)
The number of identified HIV cases is on the rise in Turkey, mostly due to heterosexual transmission (63 percent of new cases in the last five years). Since the epidemic in Turkey remains concentrated...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 62254 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Yeh,Ethan