Documentos e informes

Lao People's Democratic Republic - Community Livelihood Enhancement and Resilience (CLEAR) Project : Second Implementation Support Mission - March 18 to 28, 2024 (Inglés)

Supporting the Advancement and Resilience of Delivery Partners : How Shadowfax Uses Inclusive Employment Practices to Expand its Business (Inglés)

The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a rapid rise in e-commerce and delivery services, creating labor supply challenges in many markets. Digital logistics platform Shadowfax offers fast ‘hyperlocal’ delivery...

West Bank and Gaza - Gaza Emergency Cash for Work and Self-Employment Support Project (Inglés)

Ratings for the Gaza Emergency Cash for Work and Self-Employment Support Project for West Bank and Gaza were as follows: outcome was highly satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring...

Toward Safer and More Productive Migration for South Asia (Inglés)

International migration for temporary employment is a critical component of South Asia’s development path, from both the jobs and remittance flows perspectives. South Asian economies are at a stage of...

An Uneven Recovery : Taking the Pulse of Latin America and the Caribbean Following the Pandemic - 2021 LAC High Frequency Phone Surveys (Inglés)

To continue monitoring how the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the welfare of households in the region, the World Bank and UNDP have joined forces in the implementation of a second phase of...

An Uneven Recovery : Taking the Pulse of Latin America and the Caribbean Following the Pandemic - 2021 LAC High Frequency Phone Surveys (Español)

To continue monitoring how the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the welfare of households in the region, the World Bank and UNDP have joined forces in the implementation of a second phase of...

West Bank and Gaza – Gaza Emergency Support for Social Services Project (Inglés)

What do We Know About Interventions to Increase Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment in South Asia? : Self-help Group Programs (Inglés)

The World Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab is conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with direct or indirect effects on measures of women’s economic empowerment...

Globalization and Factor Income Taxation (Inglés)

How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why? To address this question, this paper builds and analyzes a new database of effective macroeconomic tax rates covering...

The Labor Market Implications of Restricted Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya : Evidence from Nationally Representative Phone Surveys (Inglés)

The COVID-19 pandemic affected people’s livelihoods in many ways, particularly in developing countries. This paper examines the degree to which recovering mobility levels impacted labor market outcomes...

How to Cope with a Refugee Shock ? Evidence from Uganda (Inglés)

Sub-Saharan Africa hosts a large proportion of the world’s refugees, raising concerns about the consequences of hosting refugees. This paper focuses on Uganda, which is the largest refugee hosting country...

Rural Employment in Africa : Trends and Challenges (Inglés)

Africa’s rural population continues to expand rapidly and labor productivity in agriculture and many rural off farm activities remains low. This paper uses the lens of a dual economy and the associated...

Official Documents- Financing Agreement for Credit No. 7034-CI (Inglés)

Operational Considerations for Urban Economic Inclusion Programming (Inglés)

This note is one of two designed to serve as a resource for policy makers and practitioners aiming to introduce or scale up economic inclusion programs in urban and peri-urban areas. The first note explores...

Capital Markets, Temporary Migration and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Bangladesh (Inglés)

Limited access to credit due to poorly functioning institutions is a key constraint to business creation. This paper examines the role played by temporary migration in addressing the institutional void...

Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Ethiopia : Results from 11 Rounds of High-Frequency Phone Surveys of Households from April 2020 through May 2021 (Inglés)

With the recent surge in infection and fatality rates, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to pose serious risks to the health and economic wellbeing of Ethiopians. Early on, Ethiopia...

The Long Shadow of Informality : Challenges and Policies (Inglés)

A large percentage of workers and firms operate in the informal economy, outside the line of sight of governments in emerging market and developing economies. This may hold back the recovery in these economies...

Forced Displacement, Gender, and Livelihoods : Refugees in Ethiopia (Inglés)

This study uses the Ethiopia Skills Profile Survey (2017) to examine the gender differences in livelihood opportunities and activities between refugees and host communities. The results show that refugees...

Inequality under COVID-19 : Taking Stock of High-Frequency Data for East Asia and the Pacific (Inglés)

While the distributional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been well-documented in high-income countries, studies in low- and middle-income countries have been relatively rare due to data limitations...

Demographic and Spatial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes within the Kinshasa Urban Landscape (Inglés)

This paper examines the labor market and jobs in urban Kinshasa, by drawing on a recently collected household survey and other data sets. It particularly focuses on labor supply and employment patterns...