The Jobs Diagnostic is part of a two-year analytical program co-financed by the World Bank and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to support the Government of Togo (GoT)...
The Jobs Diagnostic is part of a two-year analytical program co-financed by the World Bank and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to support the Government of Togo (GoT)...
Cash transfers in general appear to be more effective than in-kind transfers or vouchers at improving a range of outcomes, including decreasing monetary poverty, improving health and nutrition, and increasing...
The September 2023 update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. In particular, some welfare aggregates have been revised...
Togo, a small country with a young and growing population, must look to the development of more and better jobs to recover from recent shocks, accelerate poverty reduction and enhance social cohesion...
Boosting shared prosperity also means including disadvantaged groups in the labor market. While many factors can hinder labor force participation, behavioral factors have emerged as key barriers in the...
Legitimacy in the time of COVID-19 can be understood as the ability of leaders to win compliance with new public health orders because people share a widespread belief that everyone is complying. This...
The economic crisis induced by COVID - 19 (Coronavirus) could be long, deep, and pervasive when viewed through amigration lens. Lockdowns, travel bans, and social distancing have brought global economic...
Mozambique has a low average yield of raw cashew nut (RCN) of 3 kg/tree. The latest census of agriculture in 2015 estimated that 1.33 million households owned cashew trees. Another 30,000 households were...
The private sector plays an important role in emerging market countries with limited education capacity by providing quality schooling at all levels, from early childhood development to tertiary education...
This newsletter includes the following headings : International Comparison Program (ICP) governing board inaugural meetings; ICP Africa task force meeting; national accounts seminar for Latin America and...
In September 1957 Bank staff member Orville J. McDiarmid began a leave of absence to serve as Economic Adviser to the Development Board of Iraq. His description of Iraq in the excerpted piece that follows—which...
This note explores the role of legal institutions in influencing women’s employment in private firms in developing countries. Both a holistic and specific approach to legal institutions is adopted. Regarding...
Megacity Dhaka encounters various kinds of natural disasters quite frequently owing to its geographical location and a number of other physical and environmental conditions including low topography, land...
This paper attempts to determine the extent to which inequality in wage earnings in the Russian Federation is unfair. Unlike other similar attempts that can, at best, produce a lower bound on the estimate...
This note highlights research using administrative data from the Georgian Tax Authority to estimate the effects of special tax regimes for micro and small enterprises on formal firm creation and tax compliance...
Russia's economy is stagnating. Seasonally adjusted growth for the first two quarters of 2014 was near zero. Consumer and business sentiments were already weak in 2013 due to lingering structural problems...
Russia's economy is stagnating. Seasonally adjusted growth for the first two quarters of 2014 was near zero. Consumer and business sentiments were already weak in 2013 due to lingering structural problems...
This paper argues that the social factors that have driven increased voluntary environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure over the past three decades are sufficiently compelling to lead to...
The Decentralized Energy for Rural Transformation Program (ERTIC/IDTR) started in late 2003, with an objective to increase access in rural areas to electricity, information and communication services...