IFC’s Impact Notes are a
flexible financial vehicle that offers retail investors in
the United States an opportunity to buy triple-A rated IFC
bonds and support...
Type: BriefReport#: 188298Date: March 13, 2024Author:
World Bank
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
launched its Discount Note Program in 2009 to provide
additional funding and liquidity management in support of
certain trade...
Type: BriefReport#: 188296Date: March 13, 2024Author:
World Bank
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
raises funds through capital markets to drive inclusive and
sustainable economic growth in developing countries while
maintaining...
Type: BriefReport#: 188293Date: March 13, 2024Author:
World Bank
This Short Note aims to provide some
practical tips for practitioners like World Bank task team
leaders in implementing online gig work programs to enable
vulnerable...
Type: BriefReport#: 188239Date: March 11, 2024Author:
World Bank
Access to quality diagnostics is
essential for both providing effective health care to
individuals and advancing broader health policy objectives,
such as universal...
Type: BriefReport#: 188184Date: March 8, 2024Author:
Bachongy,Karine ;
Brocard,Eva Marie Chloe ;
Douss,Carla Kamal Fawzi ;
Nikiema,Rabietou ;
Porgo,Teegwende Valerie ;
Quansah Amissah,Richard ;
Voncina,Luka ;
Zanamwe,Mazvita
This brief discusses results from the
survey of the youth population in Uganda using results from
the Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS). UHFPS has
been collected...
Type: BriefReport#: 188472Date: March 2, 2024Author:
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Cochinard,Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor,John ;
Audrey Kemigisha ;
Andrew Mupere ;
Ponzini,Giulia
Ensuring a safe environment for children
to learn is more than a mission for the WorldBank. It is an
urgent imperative. In large part, the success of our FCV
Strategy...
Type: BriefReport#: 189389Date: March 2, 2024Author:
World Bank
Beginning in 2012, Ethiopia’s
first ever women-entrepreneur focused line of credit was
established through the Women Entrepreneurship Development
Project (WEDP)....
Type: BriefReport#: 188714Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Buehren,Niklas ;
Papineni,Sreelakshmi ;
Rawlins,Marlon Rolston ;
Weis,Toni Johannes
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...
Type: BriefReport#: 191207Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Cash-transfer payment mechanisms abound
and have diversified greatly in recent years. Payments can
be made manually (in person) on a set schedule at a
brick-and-mortar...
Type: BriefReport#: 191203Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The World Bank developed the EdTech
Readiness Index (ETRI) to support countries in monitoring
the extent to which technology supports teaching and
learning processes...
Type: BriefReport#: 188649Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of
Statistics (UBOS), in collaboration with the World Bank,
officially launched the Uganda High Frequency Phone Survey
(UHFPS) to track...
Type: BriefReport#: 192574Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Cochinard,Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor,John ;
Kemigisha, Audrey ;
Mupere, Andrew ;
Ponzini,Giulia
Female labor force participation in
Mashreq countries is notably low due to a range of
structural constraints that are further exacerbated by
gender norms. This knowledge...
Type: BriefReport#: 190786Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Qarout,Dana Ghazi Nabeeh ;
Lundvall,Jonna Maria ;
Nasr,Nour ;
Chatila,Mohamad
A growing body of evidence finds that
cash transfers reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in
various contexts, even when the cash transfer was not
designed to do so....
Type: BriefReport#: 191206Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Heinemann,Alessandra ;
Rawal,Palak
Improvements in the health outcomes of
women, young girls, and children will be key to Rwanda
attaining three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDG) focused on...
Type: BriefReport#: 189375Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Gordillo-Tobar,Amparo Elena ;
Prata Menezes,Neia Sue Ellen ;
Akala,Francisca Ayodeji ;
De Francisco Serpa,Nataliya
The World Bank developed the EdTech
Readiness Index (ETRI) to support countries in monitoring
the extent to which technology supports teaching and
learning processes...
Type: BriefReport#: 188648Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
To help policy makers make practical
programmatic design choices, this series summarizes recent
literature on cash transfers and explains how the design of
cash transfer...
Type: BriefReport#: 191205Date: March 1, 2024Author:
Botea,Ioana Alexandra ;
Coudouel,Aline ;
Heinemann,Alessandra ;
Kuttner,Stephanie Anne ;
Rawal,Palak
Studies from 2016 on demonstrate that
the impact of cash transfers varies based on duration,
depending on whether they are distributed over a short (24
months or less)...
Type: BriefReport#: 191201Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The World Bank developed the EdTech
Readiness Index (ETRI) to support countries in monitoring
the extent to which technology supports teaching and
learning processes...
Type: BriefReport#: 188650Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This brief examines the effects of
varying cash transfer values on outcomes by reviewing the
evidence since 2016, inclusive of the COVID-19 pandemic. For
the purposes...
Type: BriefReport#: 191202Date: March 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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