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A Shot in the Arm : New Evidence from the World Bank High Frequency Surveys on COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake in the Caribbean (الإنجليزية)

These brief reports the findings from innovative high-frequency phone surveys (HFPS) on the drivers of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and uptake in the Caribbean among the adult population. The LAC HFPS were...

Exposure and Preparedness to Natural Hazards in the Caribbean : Insights from Phone Surveys (الإنجليزية)

Using phone survey data collected in Belize, Dominica, Haiti, and Saint Lucia in 2021, this note presents recent evidence on natural disaster risk exposure and preparedness at the household and community...

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Public Sector Labor Market and Its Implications (الإنجليزية)

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) face the dual and interlinked challenge of lack of jobs and low quality of public services. Labor force participation rates, especially of women, are among the lowest in Europe...

A Shot in the Arm : New Evidence from the World Bank High Frequency Surveys on COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake in the Caribbean (الإنجليزية)

This brief reports the findings from innovative high frequency phone surveys (HFPS) on the drivers of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine acceptance and uptake in the Caribbean among the adult...

Pesquisa Telefônica Sobre a Covid-19 no Brasil em 2021 : Principais Resultados - Mercado de Trabalho, Renda e Educação (البرتغالية)

Mais de um ano após o início da pandemia, o emprego ainda não havia voltado aos níveis pré-pandêmicos, e as mulheres e a população sem formação superior enfrentavam mais dificuldades para voltar ao trabalho...

The 2021 Brazil COVID-19 Phone Survey – Findings on labor market, income, and education trends (الإنجليزية)

A year and half into the pandemic, employment had not recovered yet to pre-pandemic levels, with women and the population without higher education finding it harder to get back into employment. Women and...

Estimating a Poverty Line for Brazil Based on the 2017-18 Household Budget Survey (الإنجليزية)

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and caloric...

Impacts of COVID-19 in Brazil (الإنجليزية)

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic range far and wide going from direct impacts on the economy and jobs to indirect effects of learning losses among children that are out of school. Brazil is among the...

Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment : Accelerating Economic Transformation - Synthesis Report (الإنجليزية)

Sri Lanka Poverty Update : Background Report to Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment (الإنجليزية)

Sri Lanka has made strong progress in reducing poverty and sharing prosperity among the less well-off in recent years. The poverty rate using the World Bank's 3.20 Dollars poverty line (in 2011 purchasing...

Acesso a Atividades Escolares no Brasil Durante a Pandemia com Base na PNAD COVID-19 : Julho a Novembro de 2020 (البرتغالية)

Informality, Job Quality, and Welfare in Sri Lanka (الإنجليزية)

Informal employment remains a salient and persistent feature of the Sri Lanka labor market, with around 70 percent of the work force informally employed. There are generally three reasons to be concerned...

A Reversal in Shared Prosperity in Brazil : Brazil’s Poverty and Inequality Since the 2014-2016 Domestic Crisis (البرتغالية)

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic arrived in Brazil while the poorest forty percent of the population was still recovering from the 2014-2016 crisis. After boosting Latin America’s reduction in poverty...

A Reversal in Shared Prosperity in Brazil : Brazil’s Poverty and Inequality Since the 2014-2016 Domestic Crisis (الإنجليزية)

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic arrived in Brazil while the poorest forty percent of the population was still recovering from the 2014-2016 crisis. After boosting Latin America’s reduction in poverty...

What is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World (الإنجليزية)

We use a combination of surveys of instructors and data from course syllabi to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and Master’s level in over 200 courses in...

Small firm death in developing countries (الإنجليزية)

Small firms are an important source of income for the poor in developing countries, and the target of many interventions designed to help them grow. But there is no systematic information on the failure...

The World Bank Economic Review 31 (3) (الإنجليزية)

The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal used for the dissemination of research in development economics broadly relevant to the development profession and to the World Bank in pursuing...

Development economics as taught in developing countries (الإنجليزية)

This paper uses a combination of survey questions to instructors and data collected from course syllabi and examinations to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate...

Mozambique - Diagnostic review of consumer protection and financial literacy (Vol. 2 of 2) : Comparison with good practices (الإنجليزية)

This Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy (CPFL) is an initial priority follow up to the Mozambique Financial Sector Development Strategy (MFSDS) for 2012-2021. CPFL in the banking and...

Mozambique - Diagnostic review of consumer protection and financial literacy (Vol. 1 of 2) : Key findings and recommendations (الإنجليزية)

This Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy (CPFL) is an initial priority follow up to the Mozambique Financial Sector Development Strategy (MFSDS) for 2012-2021. CPFL in the banking and...