الوثائق والتقارير
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April 2024 Update to the Multidimensional Poverty Measure : What’s New (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل (سلسلة مُرقمة) رقم التقرير: 191861 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2024/06/25 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: 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 (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 192601 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2024/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: 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 (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 157682 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2021/03/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Swindle,Rachel Elizabeth,Newhouse,David Locke
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Recovery from the Pandemic Crisis : Balancing Short-Term and Long-Term Concerns (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 152797 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2020/09/07 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Loayza,Norman V.,Sanghi,Apurva,Shaharuddin,Nurlina Binti,Wuester,Lucie Johanna
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Navigating the Landscape of Transactions : Understanding Firms’ Transactional Governance Structures in Six Latin American Countries (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 152936 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2019/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Francis,David C.
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Measuring Jobs-linked Externalities in Private Investment Projects : A Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Perspective (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل (سلسلة مُرقمة) رقم التقرير: 149182 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2019/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Ricaldi,Federica,Mousley,Peter J.
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Sri Lanka - Achieving pro-poor universal health coverage without health financing reforms (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل (سلسلة مُرقمة) رقم التقرير: 122814 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2018/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Smith,Owen K.
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Russia’s recovery : How strong are its shoots? (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 121802 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2017/11/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed
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Russia’s recovery : How strong are its shoots? (الروسية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 121802 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2017/11/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed
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Can blockchain technology address de-risking in emerging markets? (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 115707 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2017/05/24 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: 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 (الإنجليزية)
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.
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 111734 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2017/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: De Mel,Suresh,Mckenzie,David J.,Woodruff,Christoper
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The Presidency of Eugene Meyer (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل رقم التقرير: 104671 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2016/01/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed
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Fear and regret, or trust? From 'transparency as a way to control' to 'radical transparency to empower' (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 106039 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2015/09/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Verhezen,Peter
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Lower bounds on inequality of opportunity and measurement error (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل (سلسلة مُرقمة) رقم التقرير: 125410 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2015/07/15 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: 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 (الفرنسية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 79711 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2013/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Ndumbe,Njie Louis
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Unshackling women traders : cross-border trade of Eru from Cameroon to Nigeria (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 79711 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2013/06/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Ndumbe,Njie Louis
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Determinants of fertility, women's health and employment behavior in Sri Lanka (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: ورقة عمل (سلسلة مُرقمة) رقم التقرير: 74169 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2012/10/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Cnobloch,Stefania Rodica
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Mexico - Wind development program (La Mata La Ventosa) : case study (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 76168 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2012/08/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed
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Air transport and energy efficiency (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: دراسة أخرى بشأن البنية التحتية رقم التقرير: 68010 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2012/02/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Dr. Schlumberger, Charles E.
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Turkey - HIV and risky behavior among mobile workers (الإنجليزية)
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...
نوع الوثيقة: مذكرة موجزة رقم التقرير: 62254 تاريخ الوثيقة: 2011/04/01 حالة الافصاح: Disclosed المؤلف: Yeh,Ethan