If teachers’ professional entitlements,
such as timely salaries or fair transfers, are routinely
unmet - or if they need to use informal channels to get them
- can they...
Type: BriefReport#: 158610Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Beteille,Tara ;
Pandey,Priyanka
Cities along the Adriatic coastline of
Croatia boast a sizable and fast-growing tourism industry
that is one of the key pillars of the country’s economy.
However, the...
In many low-income countries, improving
service delivery can be challenging, whether it's
making sure that teachers are in the classroom ready to
teach or that cash...
The Water and Sanitation Millennium
Project (Programme d’Eau Potable et d’Assainissement du
Millénaire) in Senegal facilitated access to services by
improving and expanding...
The Results in Education for All
Children (REACH) Trust Fund at the World Bank funded an
evaluation that measured the effectiveness of both financial
and non-financial...
Type: BriefReport#: 134797Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Motte Dit Falisse,Jean-Benoit Emmanuel P ;
Huysentruyt, Marieke ;
Olofsgård, Anders
The international community has asked
the World Bank to develop a plan to guide international aid
support for economic growth, development, and poverty
reduction following...
Type: BriefReport#: 179409Date: January 1, 2019Author:
World Bank
Teach is an observation tool that
captures: (i) the time teachers spend on learning and the
extent to which students are on task, and (ii) the quality
of teaching practices...
The Water Services and Institutional
Support Project (2007–15) aided the government of Mozambique
by rehabilitating and expanding water systems in over 12
cities and...
The note serves to show how smartphones
and digital platforms/workflows can be effectively used to
collect and process validation data about
decentralized/dispersed...
Type: BriefReport#: 139456Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Kaiser,Kai-Alexander ;
Pena Pereira Weiss,Lilian ;
Chase,Claire ;
Hong,Hai Le Tuyen
In the lean periods ahead of harvest,
twice a year, when food shortages are most significant, the
rural labor force has fewer employment and income generating
opportunities....
Climate change affects what the World
Bank does as a development institution. Rising temperatures,
increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and
changing...
Type: BriefReport#: 170253Date: January 1, 2019Author:
World Bank
Climate change affects what the World
Bank does as a development institution. Rising temperatures,
increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and
changing...
Type: BriefReport#: 170254Date: January 1, 2019Author:
World Bank
A significant share of people is
affected by disabilities in Bangladesh - some studies find
that people with disabilities (PWDs) constitute 7 percent of
the population...
The World Bank’s Global Environmental
Facility (GEF) Trust Fund financed a project centered on
piloting participatory Integrated Water Resources Management
(IWRM) in...
Due to years of conflict and political
instability, Iraq has long faced complex institutional
challenges. Water and sanitation services were sorely
lacking, posing a...
For the poorest in the world, affordable
public transport determines whether they can travel longer
distances and access better opportunities, often not
available within...
Indonesia posted a current account
deficit (CAD) of United States dollars (USD) 8.4 billion in
Q2 2019, up from USD 7.0 billion in Q1. On a four-quarter
rolling sum...
Type: BriefReport#: 142785Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Adriani,Magda
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