This brief includes the following headings: comparative governance rankings; recent developments; critical governance issues; World Bank strategy and activities; and general governance indicators and comparative...
The Country Opinion Survey in Djibouti assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Djibouti perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national...
Social norms and childcare responsibilities often constrain women's mobility and work. This paper investigates the promise of digitalization in unlocking the growth of home-based businesses, an economic...
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in United Arab Emirates on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity...
The Country Opinion Survey for FY2012 in Tunisia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Tunisia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic...
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Tunisia on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity gains...
IEG’s Country Program Evaluation (CPE) covers the period FY05–13. The period spans three World Bank Group country strategies and one progress report. It also covers the last years of the Ben Ali regime...
IEG’s Country Program Evaluation (CPE) covers the period FY05–13. The period spans three World Bank Group country strategies and one progress report. It also covers the last years of the Ben Ali regime...
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE), prepared in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank, reviews Tunisia's socioeconomic development since 1990, and the challenges facing the country, as...
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE), prepared in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank, reviews Tunisia's socioeconomic development since 1990, and the challenges facing the country, as...
Regional disease surveillance networks are models for the kind of transnational cooperation that can provide a flexible and coordinated response to the spread of pandemic threats. Members of the Middle...
This Country Program Evaluation assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s support to Morocco between fiscal year FY11 and FY21. The report evaluates the World Bank Group’s contribution...
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the Arab Republic of Egypt’s economy and its people in many ways. By combining micro-simulations and imputation techniques, this paper models early impacts of the pandemic...
This paper uses the context of the Islamic Republic of Iran-Iraq war in 1980–88 to study the long-term impacts of exposure to the war during school years on educational attainment and labor market outcomes...
Although female labor force participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is a lack of studies on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country’s female labor...
Despite sizable government interventions to sustain the economy, in the first year of the pandemic (2021/22), approximately 1 million jobs were lost in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and labor force participation...
This paper studies the early career dynamics of employment and formality using data from the Arab Republic of Egypt. With 14 rounds of Egypt’s labor force surveys several measures of informality and underemployment...
When reform of gender discriminatory law fails, individual action can offer a second-best solution. As most Muslim-majority countries, Tunisia applies Islamic inheritance law, systematically favoring sons...
This briefing showcases the gender landscape in Syrian Arab Republic on key indicators helpful for monitoring gender equality and designing effective policy interventions. Gender equality fosters productivity...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Soft skills or hard cash? : the impact of training and wage subsidy programs on female youth employment in Jordan, conducted...